are we buying it yet?

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

Posted some spoilery thoughts on the finale on my own lj (scroll down)...

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[privateskylark.livejournal.com]

RDM has already confirmed that they are Cylons.

some more thoughts

[hosemedown.livejournal.com]

Alright. A few things:

is it just me, or did it seem that possibly the Chief was jumping to conclusions about the Cylon thing?

I don't think so. The deal with humanoid models is that, if they think their human, their switches flip, like Boomer's did.

The Final 5 are clearly not like the humanoid models we know and love. Just as Earth and the 13th colony have become part of the colonies' mythology, I think the existence of the Final 5 have become part of Cylon mythology as well. No one - save Deanna - has ever seen them. All we know is that Cylon models we've met kind of fear them.

Starbuck is clearly the fifth one (in the original series, Starbuck disppears and returns will knowledge of a new civilization or something like that), which is similar to what happens with her return when she tells Lee she will take the humans to Earth.

As for the Dylan song, I think that was kind of silly - but it might also be an attempt at irony/a clue. If the 5 are tapping into Earth, they're tapping into our Earth. Apparently a modern one, as you said. ;)

So I don't think it's "Radio Cylon." I think it's the 5 having this psychic connection to Earth. There's the mantra "one happened will happen again," so maybe this is completing the cycle - humans and Cylons living together in some sort of harmony or something (until the show goes into syndication or something like that!).

One more thing: you know how Chief knows a ridiuclous amount about the scripture and he took them to the tomb of Athena and how Deanna saw the Final 5 before she died? She said something like, "I didn't know it was you; I'm so sorry," which my husband speculates was said to Tigh, whom the Cylons tortured on New Caprica.

All I know for sure is that a lot of the middle episodes of this season sucked and I hope they don't do that again next year. I don't want any more dumb 45-minute flashbacks about venomous blonde wives.

[chapstick-chick.livejournal.com]

So, is everyone just discounting that Starbuck and the last four revealed in the last episode are the final five?