02-20-2007, 05:27 PM
bazookaman, it's not necessarily that they don't know the identity of the final five, but that they don't discuss it (Six's dialogue to Baltar).
Also, even if she is one of the final five, it doesn't explain why-- if they took an ovary from her-- that they couldn't tell she was a Cylon. The only conceivable explanation I can think of is that she's so close to being a human that they cannot tell the difference between her ovary and that of a Cylon... but if that were the case, then they would have no need of this "we need to breed with humans" subplot, as they would have already come close enough to human-hood that there would be no need to interbreed. It would also suggest that the final five are more "perfect" copies of humans than the other seven, which makes no sense either because why go from more perfect to less? Last thing -- it's also inconsistent with Starbuck's having a family, which is established through a fair amount of dialogue. (While it's always possible that she was "swapped" with a real human being who existed at some point, there's the problem that apparently Adama's family knew her for a fair amount of time prior to what we've seen...
Also, even if she is one of the final five, it doesn't explain why-- if they took an ovary from her-- that they couldn't tell she was a Cylon. The only conceivable explanation I can think of is that she's so close to being a human that they cannot tell the difference between her ovary and that of a Cylon... but if that were the case, then they would have no need of this "we need to breed with humans" subplot, as they would have already come close enough to human-hood that there would be no need to interbreed. It would also suggest that the final five are more "perfect" copies of humans than the other seven, which makes no sense either because why go from more perfect to less? Last thing -- it's also inconsistent with Starbuck's having a family, which is established through a fair amount of dialogue. (While it's always possible that she was "swapped" with a real human being who existed at some point, there's the problem that apparently Adama's family knew her for a fair amount of time prior to what we've seen...