wasn’t she important because she came from a cylon mother and the cylons needed to learn how to breed?
JZigish
1782
Mitochondrial eve does NOT mean humanity’s only common ancestor. Instead, it means that person would be the only uninterrupted female ancestor of the rest of humanity. Figuring out the common ancestry along the male line is impossible, and so any family with only mail children are still ancestors of parts of humanity but won’t show up in the mitochondrial lineage.
Speaking of weirdness in this last ep, did anyone else spot a brief shot of someone who looked amazingly like Dualla in profile (the one who shot herself-it really had to be her, though), in the CIC area?
Look at the primitive ape-men wandering the veldt in the final episode. Look at Tricia Helfer and Grace Park. Clearly, most of us are somewhere in between.
Cylon DNA is making us all just a little bit hotter than we would have been.
bloo
1785
Not her. All black women with their hair pulled back do not look alike.
She’s dead, Jim.
I know. It actually means the most recent female common ancestor. But the implication the show is making is that she’s additionally the only one, because she both the most recent common ancestor, and also among first generation of humans on Earth (so there can’t be any older ones). I think we were supposed to come away from that revelation thinking “Oh, so that’s why she’s the savior of humanity.” Except that in reality, she can’t possibly be the only common female ancestor among the colonists, so she’s not really all that unique.
Figuring out the common ancestry along the male line is impossible
What about Y-chromosomal Adam?
If I were the Cylons, I’d ask for a refund on that prophecy. “She’s the savior of the Cylon race! Well, genetically. She’s actually responsible for the deaths of all living Cylons. Sorry about that.”
Yeah, I know the character is dead, but that woman looked so much like Dualla as to be distracting, at least in standard definition.
JZigish
1788
Sorry, phrased that wrong. Figuring out the mitochondrial eve via mail lines is impossible.
Hugin
1789
What? She’s a half Cylon, half Human child. The Cylons had been trying to make one of those, intensively, since the first season. That was the whole point of the Boomer and Helo on Caprica storyline. The breeding farms? Humanoid Cylons can’t reproduce on etheir own? The dead end the Humanoid Cylons were stuck in once their main resurrection hub was destroyed, a technology it turns out they got from the final 5 and didn’t fully understand? Did you miss a whole bunch of episodes?
At least she didn’t end up like Elizabeth, the Star Child from the V series.
Well I was fine right up to the part where they decide to go native.
A little disappointed in that they decided to throw us a first Earth so that we’d be thrown of the track of what we knew all along.
But abandoning the tech was forced and really unnecessary. Whatever they do at this point it happened the way it happened.
You know, the more I think about them going all Ted Trainer, the more I wonder, why in the chuffing hell did the writers make them go all Ted Trainer? Seems to me that if they keep their technology and they found Atlantis, you’ve got a shot at possibly doing another series in the future that progresses the story. I would have thought SyFy would have beaten Moore with a long stick until he did that for them. I guess that’s kind of what Caprica’s going to be like, but still, seems like a missed opportunity to me. I mean, I would have tuned in. Hell, I’m watching Lost - I kind of suspect I already HAVE tuned into that particular show.
Hera represented lost innocence. By studying her, Cavil hoped to either regain his own innocence or learn about the innocence he himself never experienced, being created as a fully-formed adult by the Cylons. By saving her, the colonists were able to gift their descendants on Earth with that innocence.
Hera wrote the notes to the piano song that Starbuck’s dad played. Starbuck assigned numbers to the note and those numbers were the jump coordinates of Earth2.
Also, I’d like to point out that I’m pro robot.
Oh, another thing: Why the hell was Tyrol so pissed off about Tori killing Calyee (or however you spell her name)? Even disregarding the rant he went on about how he never really loved her, and how she’d lied to him and made him believe that her son was his, he saw everything that happened - she found out that they were Cylons and planned to kill herself and the child he at the time believed to be his (which, after learning that it wasn’t his kid, makes no sense), or maybe she just wanted kill the child and then out them to Adama, who would probably have killed them if he’d found out that way. Tori’s actions saved the child and saved the five. Sure, he should be pissed off, but that pissed off? Enough to endanger both the human and Cylon races? That’s bit much.
Zylon
1797
You win a gold star for managing to say that with a straight face.
JZigish
1798
What part of Tyrol’s previous actions lead you to believe that he would be rational about his personal feelings? That move was totally in character with how they’d established tyrol by that point.
Tyrol is an astounding misogynist. He thinks he’s anti-Cylon, but he just plain hates women. Go back and watch his speech to Helo when he was in the brig.
Tyrol was full of awesome. Tigh is high fiving him. He’s gonna be a caveman and grunt the remainder of his life. GET OFF MY ISLAND YOU DAMN KIDS.
Cavill figured he could get resurrection then just kill them later if he felt like it. Good bargain for him. Of course, Galactica coulda freaking jumped as Cavill was fleeing with Hera…
Deus Ex sucked a lot. I know it was telegraphed from the beginning “this has happened before and will happen again.” I suppose the only way this would make sense is that “God” himself is an artificial intelligence that wiped out his own creator long ago, then got bored. So he made humans, who begot cylons, who begat humans, etc etc. He’s experimenting with permutations till one works.
At least the screen didn’t fade to black.
