Thoroughly Confused!

This past Sunday night's Battlestar Galactica saw some really interesting themes and at the same time, very confusing stuff. I don't know if it was deliberately done, but according to an interview with Ron Moore that I read, he said that it was a preview of things to come. And the season 3 finale episodes itself confirmed several things and redefined how you think of a Cylon.

The entire storyline was based on the final 5 Cylons, the recurring opera house where the visions and dreams seem to converge on, Hera, Gauis Baltar, and Starbuck. There are many spoilers ahead, so please read at your own risk if you haven't seen the season 3 finale yet!

We at least find out 4 of the final 5 Cylons: Tigh, Tori, Tyrol and Anders are all Cylons! And what a revelation indeed! The basis of how and why they are Cylons is confusing. An Internet friend and I have come up with 2 main rather sound theories, however, pls feel free to poke holes in them:

1. The recurring theme here is "All this has happened before, it will happen again." The Lords of Kobol created "humans" as robots and "humans" evolved to become living beings, and perhaps destroyed the Lords of Kobol. "Humans" later decided to recreate a race of robots in their own image (probably play God) and call them Cylons, whom they later fought with and who also evolved into humano-cylons. It's like a cycle happening over and over again.

2. The Lords of Kobol created both humans and Cylons together, sort of like how Cro-Mags and Mammals evolved on Earth. Somewhere along the way, divergent evolution occurred, Cylons got wiped out either in a catastrophy, through war, or the humans themselves wiped them out. Humans evolved as the dominat species and Cylons, only a few, merging their "bloodline" and mingling with humans until the time is right where they recreated themselves. And later on, watched the further evolution of their race. In this case, they already had evolved humano-cyclons, this we see in the final 5.

These are all theory and speculation, based on what we've seen so far. What else is there really to answer all the questions posed on Sunday night's season 3 finale?

There was another unanswered question, perhaps the most nagging one of all: Starbuck. How did Starbuck survive the explosion of her Viper in Maelstrom? She she one of the final 5? Apollo saw Starbuck within the Ioanian Nebula, could it b e a hallucination as so widely speculated in the forums out there now? Or is she now stuck in his head like how Number Six is stuck in Baltar's? His very own personal inner Starbuck? Of course, if that were true, Starbuck would have appeared in the cockpit with Apollo rather than in another Viper! I can't seem to find any theories.

All the colonial ships losing power in the nebula, could it be some form of radiation? Possibly the thought that it was like a jump-start for the final 5 to awaken and begin their final duties, to either stop them from reaching Earth, or to help them reach Earth in a truce? This also begs another big question: Is the last remaining member of the final 5 on Earth together with the 13th tribe that settled there?

So many questions, so little answers, well, we just have to be patient and find out more next season, won't we? In the meantime, feel free to comment on the 2 theories we discussed with above.

So say we all.