Cylon Says - BSG: Sine Qua Non
Star TrekStargate:AtlantisFireflyBy Lisa Fary
So, the megalomaniacs have either stepped down or been abducted and a young, new leader has stepped into the presidency, promising change we can believe in. If the new military head weren’t a Cylon, I’d think this was a commentary on our current political situation.
However, since being revealed as a Super Secret Cylon, Colonel Tigh seems like he’s been better and more responsible. You know, aside from impregnating a Cylon.
Wait. A Cylon got another Cylon pregnant? Hasn’t it been determined that Cylons can’t reproduce together?
I suppose that means one of two things:
- The Final Five are human/Cylon hybrids themselves, and as such, can reproduce.
- Tigh isn’t really a Cylon.
Either way, Tigh won’t be nearly as disastrous a military leader as he was at the beginning of season two. He’s so wound up about unconsciously engaging in Cylon sabotage that he’ll make every effort to do the right thing and make sound decisions. Finding out he was a Cylon was the best thing that ever happened to Saul Tigh.
Conversely, an ass whupping has been the best thing to happen to Admiral Adama in the past couple seasons. It’s about time someone punched him in the face (after getting uncomfortably close to it).
I’m not a guy, obviously. But, I guess beating the crap out of each other is the alpha-male version of venting over drinks or therapeutic shoe shopping. Once the boys had smashed Adama’s model boat and bloodied one another, they were emotionally bonded.
If this were Torchwood, Tigh and Adama totally would have made out right then.
And it all ends with Adama, sitting in a Raptor with a book. All he needs is a cardigan and slippers to complete the image of a confused old man who can’t figure out how he managed to take a dump in the refrigerator.
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Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl.
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