The thought has always been that they have to wipe out the Cylons in a complete geneocide in order to be free, but now we know (but has Ellen spread the word?) that Cavil is really the culprit. Box him, and there can be peice.
That is what it appears to be - if you recall after D’Anna sees the Five in the temple and resurrects in the goo bath, Cavil tells her he’s boxing her, and the camera moves out and we see a gigantic cavern full of goo baths - I always assumed that those were all the different D’Anna’s being boxed.
This is what I thought too. All 3s are gone now.
Didn’t Anders tell Starbuck at one point about raids his crew carried out for guns, food and medicine (anti-radiation meds among these)?
Sound reasonable to me.
Yes, and I think we’ll see a blended fleet out of necessity and a return to Kobol, if there is no “Earth”.
Yes, that was my impression also.
Same.
Still interesting to think of how they got rid of all the different 3s though.
I think that’s the point. What did they do about the other Three’s walking around. Did they have the call to Cavil’s office and the ‘we have to let you go’ speech? I would think that wouldn’t have went well.
Unless it’s all about programming. Like Cavil said, he stopped himself from sleeping. Normally that would make you crazy. Killing a bunch of people should mess with you also. Didn’t the Sixes or Twos or Fives wonder, "Hey where’d all the Threes go? If they were programmed to forget, it wouldn’t matter. If Cavil is the puppet master, he may have access to the cylon mainframe and insider privileges that the other skinjobs do not. That would explain his disdain for their desire to be more human. He would know that their free will is not possible. At any moment he could change a parameter and they would do anything.
I think he said they voted to Box them.
At the time the Seven were more united and they all seemed shocked at the Threes sudden individuality.
It probably would be in their programming, some sort of master boxing switch for the model.
Yeah, I wonder how the break down on that go, because presumably the rest of the 3s got to vote, too. Ouch.
They prolly had the Centurions kill them… we can’t have the s7 get their hands dirty! Though it’s a good question about how that came about, would the 3s knowing the outcome of the vote, just submit to being killed? The suggestion that there is some sort of “switch” is appealing. But the mechanics of how Cavil programs the rest of the cylons remain a mystery, too.
But the mechanism of voting itself has always been pretty interesting to me - imagine being networked with who knows how many versions of yourself that debate in order to come to a consensus. Very different from what many of us go through to make decisions…
To add a little data to the discussion here, In Resurrection ship pt 2, while the fleet is engaging in the assault on the Resurrection ship and the two basestars with it, Head-six says to Baltar:
“Thousands of Cylons are about to die”
I believe that’s the line, which means among the two basestars and the resurrection ship there are at least 2000 Cylons, and I broadly assume that refers to skinjobs. I also assume that the unused bodies on the Resurrection ship count, but that Head-six meant the cylons were actually going to die.
Could the fleet even find it’s way back to the colony planets? They had to have Kara out searching for the way to lead them to Erf. No food, no fuel and ships falling apart another big problem.
After the finale and the revelation that the cylon homeworld is not a planet, but basically a ship, I have come to the conclusion that as I originally thought, the number of skinjobs in the cylon population were never that many.
And HA to the bad cylons.
You got no resurrection and no chicks, even if you escaped the colony, youre dead anyway.
Neh neh neh neh neh!