more on BSG
Sep. 24th, 2009 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coraaMore BSG thoughts I typed out over lunch -- mostly things that the miniseries left me curious about/wanting to find out more about. While most of these are in the form of a question, please don't answer them! I want to find out for myself, without being spoiled. ;)
* Is Gaius a) completely insane, b) mentally unbalanced due to guilt, terror and exhaustion, and hallucinating, but otherwise stable, or c) totally sane, and actually in touch with a Cylon? At first I thought b, now I'm leaning toward c.
* If c, shouldn't he be more concerned that she's reporting back their every move? I guess there's not much he could do about it, but....
* Did Gaius actually know that Doral (Doral? Was that his name?) was a Cylon? Was he picking a likely scapegoat, or did he really have the evidence he said he had? When I first saw the scene where he was going on about hair samples, I was sure he was BSing at triple-speed, but then he turned out to be right.
* If he didn't have the evidence he said he had, did he have other evidence? Did Hot Cylon Chick(tm) (Number Six, I think?) tell him, or give him clues? Did he notice other things about him -- plausible, since he had the most direct (cough cough) interactions with a Cylon of anyone? Or was he just really lucky?
* Does Boomer know she's a Cylon? I'm almost positive that the answer is 'no,' especially since Number Six made it clear that not all Cylon infiltrators know they're Cylons, but since they are designed creatures it's possible she was just designed to be an excellent actor. (I hope not.)
* How many Cylons are on the Galactica? Assuming for a moment that the note that Adama got is correct -- and that the count doesn't include the models that look, as Gaius so charmingly put it, like toasters -- there could be as many as ten, counting Boomer. I assume they wouldn't send duplicates, so there is presumably not another identical Doral twin on there, or a doubled Boomer, because that would be awfully suspicious; and I assume that there's no model of Number Six either, because Gaius would notice.
* Does Number Six actually have the sympathy for Gaius that she claims and acts like she does, or is she also acting?
I'm looking forward to seeing more of a lot of the characters, but especially Apollo, Starbuck, and President Roslin. And the kid. Poor kid. (Especially if his one friend on the ship is actually a Cylon!)
* Is Gaius a) completely insane, b) mentally unbalanced due to guilt, terror and exhaustion, and hallucinating, but otherwise stable, or c) totally sane, and actually in touch with a Cylon? At first I thought b, now I'm leaning toward c.
* If c, shouldn't he be more concerned that she's reporting back their every move? I guess there's not much he could do about it, but....
* Did Gaius actually know that Doral (Doral? Was that his name?) was a Cylon? Was he picking a likely scapegoat, or did he really have the evidence he said he had? When I first saw the scene where he was going on about hair samples, I was sure he was BSing at triple-speed, but then he turned out to be right.
* If he didn't have the evidence he said he had, did he have other evidence? Did Hot Cylon Chick(tm) (Number Six, I think?) tell him, or give him clues? Did he notice other things about him -- plausible, since he had the most direct (cough cough) interactions with a Cylon of anyone? Or was he just really lucky?
* Does Boomer know she's a Cylon? I'm almost positive that the answer is 'no,' especially since Number Six made it clear that not all Cylon infiltrators know they're Cylons, but since they are designed creatures it's possible she was just designed to be an excellent actor. (I hope not.)
* How many Cylons are on the Galactica? Assuming for a moment that the note that Adama got is correct -- and that the count doesn't include the models that look, as Gaius so charmingly put it, like toasters -- there could be as many as ten, counting Boomer. I assume they wouldn't send duplicates, so there is presumably not another identical Doral twin on there, or a doubled Boomer, because that would be awfully suspicious; and I assume that there's no model of Number Six either, because Gaius would notice.
* Does Number Six actually have the sympathy for Gaius that she claims and acts like she does, or is she also acting?
I'm looking forward to seeing more of a lot of the characters, but especially Apollo, Starbuck, and President Roslin. And the kid. Poor kid. (Especially if his one friend on the ship is actually a Cylon!)
