My predictions

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#1

Feel free to laugh at anything, but I’m telling ya that I so did call it that the Cylons in no frakkin’ way “evolved” in such a short amount of time - that somebody must’ve intervened with that plus the resurrection technology. I cannot prove that I guessed it quite awhile ago, so… ummm… just take my word for it. lol

I just watched “someone to watch over me”. Here’s what I think:

Chief has a lot to atone for, he’s not going to live to the final curtain. My guess is that he sacrifices himself.

President Roslin is not dead yet. Her collapse has something to do with Hera being missing.

The ship will not make it (duh). The ship will end her voyage with the show. She will be crashed into something (comet, moon, planet, sun). Why? Because that is just so much cooler than letting her whither away. She’s going down with big booms and fireworks!!

Opera House? Not quite sure if that was addressed in this ep, but wasn’t Hera running away in the vision? Or one of the visions, I really don’t remember. And she’s being chased. Well, in this ep she wasn’t just chased, she was caught! My guess is a Six and Baltar will be instrumental in her rescue.

Seems to be some credence now to the idea that Daniel is Starbuck’s father. Daniel was hidden away by the FF (or at least one of them) to get him away from Cavil. That’s how he got to be Starbuck’s father.

Anders programmed “that song” into the skinjobs - at least the 8’s and the Daniels. It’s in their DNA, that’s how Hera knows it (because she’s got that DNA too). So Starbuck could know it via that route and/or just being taught it as a child.

And that’s all I wrote. For now. :eek:

#2

You were right. But I would differ with you that they couldn’t have evolved so quickly. At the time of the 1st war Colonial society was much more advanced than us, especially in their computing power (obviously). Then think about how many Cylons there were and the computing power increases exponentially. They could run millions of virtual tests and models simultaneously and arrive at how to create skinjobs in a very short time. The fact they needed help shows how Trek-influenced the writers room must be.

It’s time. And I think you’re right, he’ll sacrifice himself some way.

But at what point did the FF get it in their heads? Do you think that it got encoded in them when they were resurrected just prior to being brainwiped and sent off to the Colonies?

#3

And now Sam Ander’s brainwaves have gotten weird. The Doc says he is in a comma, but the harmonic complexity of those brainwave patterns looked familiar to me. I will predict that his brainwaves herald a chronic case of Temporal Lobe Deus Ex Machina accompanied by another acute bout of exposition-dumpitis.

http://normdoering.blogspot.com/2009/02/battlestar-galactica-someone-to-watch.html

#4

Perhaps it was built into the DNA of the 13th Tribe by the Lords of Kobol, whoever they were.

#5

Besides dumpitis, I suspect those waves were Hendrix waves–only merged with his personality. Betcha Starbuck’s destiny in part is to try to revive Anders w/ the song, in a harmony of sorts, but she’ll fail, being the harbinger of death.

#6

Here’s my theory. Pretty certain that Daniel is Starbuck’s dad - most people seem to think so too.

I suspect that Daniel had an idea that Cavil was out to brainwipe the other FF and restart the war with the colonies. So he came up with a contingency plan. That plan involved setting them up to remember their true nature on hearing a song - Watchtower. So Daniel encodes this in their heads and makes sure that Kara learns it. Maybe this is a backup plan, and Daniel plans to go into hiding and revive the other FF himself, but if he fails he wants to make sure that there is some mechanism for reviving their memories of who they are. However, Cavil finds out about his plan and that’s why he boxes him - he knows he’s a threat. Kara’s mum has some knowledge of all this and that’s why she’s so pushy - she knows Kara is vital in reviving the FF who are the only hope for stopping some sort of catastrophe (Cavil’s plan to wipe out humanity). Leoben has some inkling of a connection between Starbuck and the FF, hence his interest in her, although he may not know the details.

We still need to find out why the FF heard Watchtower at the nebula, and what the frak is going on with Starbuck. Perhaps Daniel and the other FF set up some mechanism for downloading and resurrecting cylon-human hybrids. But they didn’t have FTL, so unlikely had things like wormholes that appear to be necessary to get Kara’s exploded viper from the gas planet to Erf. So we still need some other force/power/mechanism to explain this sort of thing.

I think this might be Baltar - there’s too much head-character stuff going on with cylons and hylons for Head Six to be a figment of his deraged imagination.

Or - frak me - maybe Baltar’s Daniel and head Dad is something else. I doubt it, but it would be cool. I suspect Baltar may originate from Erf/Earth but not be part of the FF group.

#7

That is really interesting and certainly explains more than my prediction. But I like the other idea (by NothingButheRain) that maybe the song is so much older than that, and goes back to Kobol.

I don’t think Baltar is Daniel, but I don’t know who or what he is either. From Erf? hmm… That would make his origins significant - but maybe he’s just an ordinary guy from Caprica (or where is he from?) who was made significant by his Six girlfriend.

#8

Baltar says he’s from Arelon (spelling suspect).
But who/what is he? A cylon? The cylon God with amnesia? I don’t believe he is human, because I can’t see how he survived the blast that destroyed his house and Caprica 6 back in the miniseries. Also, I believe Baltar can project on his own, like the cylons. So many questions still, and so little time.

#9

A lot of people are saying this … and I hope it’s true.

But I don’t think it will be. After all, RDM’s ALREADY done it once, with the uber-spectacular frak-you that was the Pegasus death ride. The only way to top that would be for Adama to single-handedly pilot the Big G into Cavil’s baseship in some final confrontation … but that just reeks too much of Flash Gordon. All we’d need is Adama saying “Laura, what a damn shame!” just before impact to make it complete.

I think the old, tired girl’s gonna die … but with a whimper rather than a bang. I REALLY hope I’m wrong, tho.

#10

Roflmao :smiley:

Gods I hope not!

I hope they plug him into a goo tank and he lights up like a Midwinter Festivus Pine.

#11

For me personally, here are the things that need to be answered :
-Who or what is Baltar?
-What’s with those Lords of Kobol? I am convinced that they are important. But I could be dead wrong. But I don’t think so!
-What is the basic timeline??? I mean who settled where after which apocalypse and that sort of thing.
-Starbuck? I posted elsewhere that I think she’s Pythia and I’m only partially tongue-in-cheek on that. And while I’m at it, what was going on with Pythia and the alleged prophesies? (Aside - There was an ep of Angel, I don’t remember all the details, but this demon said he wrote some prophesy by travelling back and forth in time, tweaking his prophesy based on what was actually happening. See, now that’s a good explanation for a prophesy.)

That would s*ck. And I’ve seen some good evidence for the whimper theory. So, yes, a definite possibility. But if Galactica doesn’t have a good death scene… Nope, it’s gotta be a significant death. Letting her just slowly disintegrate would be…disgraceful.

#12

I completely agree.

#13

I don’t know. She survives. Abandoned in the vacuum of space. The last Battlestar. Eternal.

#14

That is so sad. No closure.

#15

we saw in the pod gets brewed in her ghostly hull for the next Cycle?

#16

Aye. Opera worthy.

#17

I have often thought BSG would make an excellent Grand Opera.