Six of One

On Friday april 11th the new episode of Battlestar Galactica, Six of One, aired at 10p.m. eastern on the SciFi channel. It also had a free stream at 12p.m. that day on SciFi.com. I had been waiting all week for this episode and had even pushed back a date with my girlfriend so that I could watch it. I was pleasently surprised that this episode was much better than the one that preceeded it. I rate this episode with 4 out of 5 stars. For more information concerning my thoughts on the episode read on, below the player. Visit hulu.com for more BSG episodes, or look in my blog archive for embedded episodes. Once you watch this episode make sure to see the preivew for the next one The Ties that Bind



Spoiler Alert!
-do not read past this point if you dont want your first viewing of the episode to be spoiled

I thought that this episode set up a lot of conflict for future episodes. The plot developments within the Cylon society were also particularly interesting. We were confirmed in our understanding of 6's as driven and commited to their ideals with a lack of practical forsight that the 1's possess. Considering the 1's for a moment, why do they appear so old? Was it because they are the first cylon model or because they were designed that way? More than likely the lader.

Back to the episode at hand, what did Leoben's (model: #2) comment mean when 2, 6, and 8 approached a 1 and began commenting on why the raiders would not fight the humans and he said "What their eyes must have seen, witnessed over time." The comment suggests that the final five are old. This raises another question. Are the final five the only ones of thier model type? That is to say; is there only one Chief, only one Saunders, only one Saul, and only one Tory though they are still all cylons? If not, then were would there base ships be? And, why are they so well hidden? What do the other cylons's of the final five type have to hide?

I love the hybrid. A cylon but not really a cylon. The brain of the basestar but an individual itself. I also always pay close attention to what they say, there may be rich foreshadowing in every sentence. Here's what she said.

The excited state decays by vibrational relaxation into the first excited singlet state.

Yes, yes and merrily we go.

Reduce atmospheric nitrogen by 0.03%.

It is not much consolation that society will pick up the bits,
leaving us at ape modern repunishment, rather than - interdiction is paramount.

Please cut the fuse.
They will not harm their own.
End of line.

Limiting diffusions to two dimensions increases the number of evolutionary jumps within the species.

Rise and measure the Temple of the Five.
Transformation is the goal.
They will not harm their own.

They will not harm thier own obivously refers to the raiders not fighting the colonial fleet for fear that they may kill the final five. Transformation is the goal is also obvious as many of the cylons still wish to become human or at least able to reproduce on thier own. Rise and measure the temple of the five is cryptic but if I were to guess I would say that it refers to the cylon's growing desire to find the final five, if temple refers to physical form (as the bible does). Concerning the other lines it seems that there is ship commands mixed with more foreshadowing. If anyone has any idea what statements like "yes yes merily we go" mean then please leave a comment.

As for the fifth cylon, I have a guess. It may be a long shot but I think that currently the most likely person to be revealed as the fifth cylon is.... Saul's dead wife Helen. It made the most sense to me when considering the facts that the two could never have a child and that if Helen were the fifth there would be definite internal conflicts between the 1's, Helen(s?), and Saul(s?), because of the "favors" she gave a 1 in order to free Saul from torture back on New Caprica. This episode has so many unanswered questions, but it brought at least a few things together. Oh well, until the next episode I will leave you with the words of the cryptic words of the hybrid shown in Razor

All of this has happend before, and all of this will happen again, and again, and again, and again, and aga...