BSG - SPOILER ALERT!

I think that Ellen is the prototype for a 'Six' since the Final 5 are in reality the First Five.

 I think that Starbuck and Baltar are in a catagory of their own.  Both are following a pre set path towards the end.

Duella was dead the moment she married Apollo.  It just took a season to kill her.

They DO have the same M.O.

I love the deconstruction of this!

Dumpster dragged me into BSG kicking and screaming... and now I can't get enough. We have watched all of the back seasons. We did it like homework, before LAST season started. 

I was surprised it was Ellen. Sort of a let down. That's why I think you guys are right... there is going to be some sort of a weird twist and Ellen is going to be a six. That's genius. And it would totally explain that whole flashback thing Tigh had while interrogating Six in the prison. 

So very very interesting. 

Carry on.... 

Indeed, they did say the final cylon of the 'five' would be revealed.  But, there are two ( at least ) possibilities with Kara and Ellen.

There does seem to be some 'pairing' going on with the final five too.  Ellen and Saul.  Then you have the odd triangle ( square? ) involving Tyrol, Tory, and Anders ( not quite clear on the "song" that was played, and who it was played for ).  Of course, there is also a strong bond between Kara and Anders ( similar to Ellen / Saul?  Fated for each other? ).

Perhaps Kara is a 6th type, not one of the 5, but something else.  Obviously there's something not yet understood going on around her.  I think Leoban knows more than he's saying.  He backed up pretty quick when they found the raptor wreckage, and clammed up about what the hybrid told Kara meant.

I'm on the edge of my seat until next Friday's installment. 

How would this tie in with the "young" Bill Adama finding the Cylon scientific lab/"skinjob" creation facility in the flashbacks?  In that episode (web only, maybe), "Husker" discovered the place where the toasters were busily trying to make a "human" Cylon - and that was only a few decades ago.

Maybe the Earth tribe of Cylons were the only ones with the technology, and the other Cylons were trying to catch up, but... millenia later?  Doesn't jibe.

So who nuked who on Earth, anyway?

Also, very coincidental that Starbuck just happened to crash land right next to where three of the Cylons were "killed" back in the day. Almost like it's fiction.

Not necessarily.  The cylons could have taken over from humans (i.e. us) and essentially won the same war that launched BSG at the start of the series.  Only we did not make it at all. After all, they are basing the assessment of a few skeletons found from the holocaust at the end. Come to think of it, maybe WE launched that final strike as a last ditch effort, and maybe even left to found the 12 colonies since the earth was now a radioactive wasteland?

I think maybe Ellen is the key - she seemed to have it all figured out in her "dying words" about "all the preparations are ready".  And that would explain why last season (I think it was last season), when one of the skin jobs saw who it was, she was in awe and apologetic.

And am I mistaken, or was the Centurion they found from the original series?  If so, nice homage!

Yes... kinda.  In the "Razor" movie, they talked about how the old-skool Cylon Centurion "Guardians" were used to defend the original hybrid.  Eh... explained better here.

Either I was very drunk or the ep was very blah tonight.

I do remember yelling "throw Gaeta in the brig already!"  several times tho.

Your thoughts?