Wow, not only is this TL;DR but the thread has passed me by as well!
Led by the 6’s and the 8’s (Caprica 6 and Boomer), the Cylons abandoned the Colonies to follow the humans to Earth. The Colony, as explained by Ellen Tigh, was where the mechanical Cylons went after the war between the skin job Cylons (the 13th tribe, created by the Kobol civ) and the mech Cylons on Earth I.
I guess they were hoping they could lure back the 6’s and 8’s post rebellion, unbox the 3’s, or since Cavil and the 1’s had assisted with the creation of the other models, make some new ones who would be more amenable to reproduction au natural.
Because those guys were getting their old-school asses handed to them by the Red Stripes?
Because he knows the jig is up and wants to go out on his own terms? I read a reference to him saying he had offed himself before early on in a trench on Caprica rather than bleed out slowly over hours. Of course there is the difference of no rez this time but the idea for the suicide came from Dean Stockwell, who thought it fit his character better than what was scripted (an Emperor’s fall courtesy Tigh).
Getting to the real Earth was a critical step in then getting to the next Earth (ours is only Earth because, as Adama said, they were looking for their Earth, and when they got here, they found it). Without her and her assigned numerical values to the leitmotif, they never would have found our Earth.
The survivors wanted a clean break from their past. It was noted somewhere that when the original surivivors left Kobol, it took them several hundred years before they rediscovered starflight. This time, they wanted more time for us to “evolve” or allow for our hearts to catch up with their tech or whatever claptramp Lee was spouting there at the end. They were willing to live fairly crappily on New Caprica, bleak as it was, for a chance at a new beginning. This was just the next step. Someone, I believe Romo, actually says something along the lines of “I can’t believe people are as amenable as they are to giving up what’s left of civilization”. I think an argument can be made that those who were left were so traumatized by the experience that radical solutions heretofore unthinkable became attractive. Cottle had tested the DNA at a burial site and had determined that the survivors could interbreed. Indeed, part of Lee’s plan was to give the culturally undeveloped but anatomically similar humans “the best parts of themselves”. So by doing this in this way, survival was assured, or at least greatly enhanced.
She’s half-Cylon. She was the MacGuffin which caused events to unfold just as “God” wanted them to. Without her, no reason for much of the series to happen the way that it did. The Cavil-faction wanted her to figure out how to reproduce without resurrection;Her picture on the Memorial Wall pushed Adama’s button such that he wasn’t going to leave her to Cylon vivisectionists.
Because he was moving to the other side of Africa if not further and without a working Raptor the chances of making the trip were going to be almost impossible?
They were humanoid Cylons who had learned to reproduce naturally on the 13th Tribe Earth until prompted by “visions” to re-discover resurrection in light of the coming internecine apocalypse. They didn’t appear to age (how did that work with Tigh in his years with the Colonial Fleet and Adama all those years?). They had also been “humanized” so long that perhaps they come to accept their mortality? Perhaps they associated rez with Cylons and rejected it out of some lingering dissonance and distaste for their long-assumed enemies.
I read somewhere the sameness was deliberate as they “knew” they were going to end up around our Earth culture, from here: RDM interview post-press viewing of the finale
Translation: The guys at SYFY were busting my balls about the budget and I wanted more pewpew spaceporn. Lapdances I have bought all over the world have been $20, so why not other worlds? Also, science.
Isn’t this like his third series to go out the same way? I think its because a crutch for him, to a certain extent. If you only tool is a hammer, then all of your problems look like “$X’s Plan”!!!one11!!cake!.
Where did those TC’s go? You are so right about the space-sim genre, though. We will always have that XBLA thing, though, right?
The exact quote is “you know it doesn’t like to be called that.” I assume it’s RDM attempt to re-insert some ambiguity. I believe given his comment about whether Head Baltar and Six are supposed to be angels or demons/devils, he intended to perhaps have it taken the OTHER way, if you know what I mean, while also leaving the door open for a host of other explanations. I also read a couple of interpretations where supposedly Baltar was referencing his penis.
