Battlestar Galactica Season 5 Episode 1 – Dee is Dead. Ellen Tigh is the Fifth January 17, 2009
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First new episode since June of 2008 and it was FRAKIN awesome –
Technically season 4 episode 11 (but after six months off gimme a break it’s Season 5 episode 1).
We did not see Dee’s death – that was soo sudden.
We’ve been saying for the past two years that Starbuck is a Cylon. So now we’ll say it again – Starbuck is a Cylon – isn’t she?
But what’s the deal with the rest of Earth?
Were they all really Cylons? Is Ellen Tigh really the fifth? It makes no sense.
The Cylons claimed they tested all the recovered bones on Earth and they all came up Cylon – does that mean that Earth was itself a planet full of cylons and there are actually Billions of Cylon models?
Show Me SciFi 
What did Dee say on the ship after leaving Earth? She was upset and mubled something.
alice – She was telling herself to hold on, hold it together. Guess she couldn’t.
Is Starbuck a Cylon, or some sort of clone? If she is a Cylon, is she one of the originals from Earth (I’m with there on the WTF) or is she one of the newer iteration (or are they? were the Cylons we’re familiar with designed by the Cylons from Earth? was the whole 13th tribe really Cylon?) or is she something else entirely? I saw a theory not long ago that she is an avatar of one of the gods of Kobal. Not sure I buy that, but who knows.
Ugg.. haven’t seen it yet. Could you avoid putting spoilers in your title? Or maybe put a warning.
I have you in my rss feed and the first thing I saw was that, haha.
Nice blog though.
I’ve worked it out. Here’s the story:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, 13 tribes left Kobol. They were all cylon. 12 had found a way to reproduce biologically, the 13th hadn’t. So, with time, the 12 tribes (who became the 12 colonies) “bred out” their cylon genes/physiology and became what they called “human”. The 13th hadn’t quite managed that yet, which is way they went in a different direction to the other 12 tribes. Some survivors from Kobol (the “human” ones), found the 13th and wiped them out. 5 survived/”downloaded” to new bodies, and journeyed to the 12 colonies. There, they recreated their own kind, the fleshy non-reproducing cylons, and plotted the strike back at the “humans”. Thus the war began.
Some of my own thoughts:
All of our speculation is dependant on a definition of what a Cylon truly is. In the first two seasons, we were led to believe that a Cylon was an artificially created human. That is to say, a human that was originally genetically engineered by mechanical Cylons (as in the flashbacks to the First Cylon War shown in Razor). They were detected by particular genetic markers (as in Baltar’s detection of Doral, Boomer, Cavill, etc).
Yet the Final Five were not created by the Cylons, or else they (the Significant Seven Cylons or mechanical Cylons) would know the identities of the FInal Five. Thus it is somethig of a paradox: Cylons as we have been led to understand them are artificially created humans, yet the Cylons did not artificially create the Final Five.
That the Thirteenth Tribe are composed entirely of “Cylons” suggests – using the definition of the first two seasons – that the entire population of Earth was genetically engineered. This is because, to identify Cylons, the Colonials and the renegade Cylons used the same genetic markers they had used throughout the show. Yet neither the mechanical Cylons nor the Significant Seven models created the population of Earth, just as they didn’t create the Final Five.
Obviously we’re going to get a new or different definition of a Cylon. Perhaps something more than artificially created, genetically-engineered human beings. Perhaps something more akin to the religious rantings of the Sixes in Season One: the second generation of God’s children.
Where can I find the episode on-line. My DVR pooped out at 8 mins. in and I am sooo disappointed as it’s my favorite show. Can someone please give me an answer or will it be telecast again on t.v. anytime soon? thanks in advance.
You can see Season 1-4 at this Site
http://kino.to/?Goto=Entry&PA=7490&PB=17160
Left Side in the Menu
>Alle Serien >then scroll a little bit down > and you will see Battlestar Galactica klick on it and see a Season or Episode you want
You can also season the new episode here:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/53330/battlestar-galactica-sometimes-a-great-notion#s-p1-so-i0
You can’t download that if you are in Canada!
Anyone know of a site you can download the new season or the newest episodes in Canada?
Twyla, canadians can use SurfTheChannel for the latest episode