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"Mitochondrial Eve" isn't our only common female ancestor, she's the most recent with a direct, unbroken female line. At least that's my understanding. So there will also be a great number of indirect descendants of the cylons and the coloinals, just none with a direct female link. Or male for that matter, I'm pretty sure the genetic Adam was from a totally different period.
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Not to mention that the "Mitochondrial Eve" fossil is just one fossil they found. That doesn't preclude that she had contemporaries that would be just as viable candidates - we've just not found their fossils yet.
While the episode implies greatly that this is Hera (thus fulfilling her arc as a person with an important destiny - the survival of the Cylon race) there isn't any specific evidence that "Mitochondrial Eve" was Hera. Could just as easily been the offspring of the real Baltar and Six or any other Cylon/Human pairing. Lots of Cylons and humans settled on Earth.
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Funny little thing that just occurred to me; if they find Jake's fossil too then they'll have evidence that humans had fully domesticated dogs about 130,000 years earlier than they should have had. Hell, if Jake bred with a wolf bitch then he could be the father of all modern domesticated dogs. Go Jake!
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I was thinking today about Baltar's cult. If there was one thing that was a big disappoint, it was the cult. What was the point of its existence again? I always felt they were potential trouble, but ultimately they faded into the background when Baltar chose to stay behind on Galactica. There wasn't even a mention of them when the Colonials finally reached New Earth.
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There's allot of things that got cut short. Lee forming the new government for one. It lasted, what? Two weeks before it became redundant? But then it was always going to be that way, it's just a shame they crammed so many interesting stories into season 4, which the middle of season 3 seamed to have been squandered.
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Wasn't there supposed to be a season five, that got nixed? The Sci Fi Channel strikes again!
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I think the Miniseries + 4 full seasons has been good. I wouldn't have objected to another season - but at least ending it now sends BSG out on top!
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Actually it was only three and a half seasons. Season one as I recall only had 12 or so episodes. Not that I think a full fifth season would have been a good idea, just another ten or so episodes, any more and it'd be dragging it out.
Still, it's better that it went out before it wore out it's welcome. Shows like Voyager or X-Files could have done with two or three or seven less seasons.
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quote:Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: Why do we keep having this discussion?
The Final Five were 2,000 years old because they were on a ship that moved almost as fast as light -- time slows down, they didn't experience it as a 2,000 year trip!
Plus, I think "THE PLAN" will show that they were downloaded into new bodies by Cavil to be inserted unknowing into Caprican society.
Yes, and, they had resurrection. Depending on how fast they were going, they still would experience a couple hundred years.
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Well we know a Tigh + Six pairing won't work, human + Eight works... So potentially any of the Cylons pairing with a human would produce an offspring...
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quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Well we know a Tigh + Six pairing won't work, human + Eight works... So potentially any of the Cylons pairing with a human would produce an offspring...
Did Tigh and Caprica not work cause... it just didn't or was it due to Six being too strenuous fighting those guys etc?
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I was under the impression that the Saul/Six kid started going downhill once it became clear to Six that her and the child were 'Second' to Adama in Tigh's priority list. Since it didn't feel as 'loved' or 'special' after Ellen's little sabotage, the pregnancy failed. It seemed to me that if Ellen had not returned and brought the emotional conflict with Six that the child would have survived. It also seemed as though Ellen KNEW that a miscarriage would be the result.
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Apparently Cavill was just going to die, somehow, in the battle; his committing suicide was Dean Stockwell's idea. I guess if anyone's supposed to know the character's motivations, it's him, so I guess it made sense to himself. Be interesting to hear how he rationalised it though. I think the editing made the whole sequence a bit rushed; if he'd been able to see for certain that one of the Five had just been killed, denying him resurrection technology forever (or for a long time assuming the other four were willing & able to re-create it from scratch), maybe that was sufficient impetus. Problem is, the scene as it stands has the collapse of the cease-fire and Cavill's suicide happen concurrent with Tyrol's breaking of the transfer/communion and murder of Tory.
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