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OK.. I see what you're saying. Epiphanies was about 3 months ago and Sharon was killed before that, so she had to have been resurrected more than 10 weeks ago.
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"Well, if my numbers are correct, she was resurrected two weeks after Epiphanies -- not two weeks after she was killed."
Indeed. I wasn't reading it properly.
So, in fact, she was resurrected two weeks plus nine episodes after she died.
"It appears from the way Caprica-Six and Sharon MkI were treated as war heroes and celebrities that the Cylons can make individual distinctions between different Cylons of the same model. How do they do that? With all of the units in the same model looking the same, there must be some other way they can pick up on individuals."
Well, it makes sense that there would be, just be virtue of the fact that we know individuals exist. If they didn't have individual minds, there would be no point in transferring to a new body. Just add the dead Cylon's experiences to everyone else's minds and create a new one from scratch.
So, since we know there are individuals, there has to be a way for them to tell each other apart, just so they aren't constantly confused. I would guess they do it by emitting some ID signal. (Something they can turn off at will, of course, to avoid detection by the humans.)
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It could just be a function of their "evolved" senses. Everyone is constantly giving off subtle cues of their uniqueness. It's how we learn to tell identical twins apart. Maybe as blatant as a different haircut, or as subtle as the mentality reflected in their faces. One Aaron might be a triad player, with an aggressive personality. Another might be an artist, with a more retiring personality. Some of us are good at spotting those subtle cues. It would make sense that the humanoid Cylons were designed to be able to read these signals, as well.
BTW, I'm in the middle of the encore broadcast, and it's Hera.
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What if Baltar is the Cylon god... especially with the way he was frakking with C6's head much the same way as she has been doing him. Wouldn't that be ironic. After all, it seems the toasters don't know that they are until their programming kicks in.
Seriously though, isn't it quite possible that the Human/Cylon models were actually based off of existing humans? Much in the same way as the Bishop android was in Aliens?
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The more I think about the theory that these visions are externally imposed, the more it makes sense. Rosalyn's visions, Baltar's Six, and now Six's Baltar. I mean, yes, people halucinate, but not THAT often. And when Baltar and Six see each other, that's just too much of a coincidence. If neither the Cylons or the humans are doing this, there's got to be someone else out there. Assuming, of course, there's a rational explanation for it all, and it's not just the writers making crap up as they go.
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So what's the argument against the Cylon religion simply being like every other religion? There's no God hiding in a closet at the Vatican or behind the curtain of the Kaaba, issuing shadowy commands. Even for believers, God isn't something you can send a letter to or invite over for dinner. From how the Cylons describe God, it seems clear they're thinking of an entity that's omnipresent and, I'd say, wholly spiritual, not something they've installed down at One Cylon Plaza.
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I read that as "Cylon Pizza." I'm hungry. Haven't eaten tonight, so off to 24hr Asda Walmart I go, to procure one of their pizzas. What toppings would Cylons have on their pizzas?
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Having said that, direct mental access to some kind of shared network, plus literal reincarnation, is bound to affect the Cylons definition of "spirit."
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No, Lee! There has to be an alternative! Wal*Mart is evil and must be destroyed!
I'd like it if it were God -- or at least an agency operating in Its behalf. But Edward Mulhare is dead. Maybe we could get lucky and Peter O'Toole would agree to appear in that role. Patrick McNee is still around, though, I think.
Gods, that would be funny -- if the enire conflict of BSG (old and new) came down to an aternal struggle between two Irishmen. Man, that IRA just never gives up, huh? Cylons are a bit nastier than car bombs, though...
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Maybe we could get lucky and Peter O'Toole would agree to appear in that role. Patrick McNee is still around, though, I think.
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