This is going to bug me for the next three months...

[centerspire]

How the hell did Cain know that Pegasus!Six is a cylon? Seriously. I understand that they had to have a cylon prisoner so we would find out they're toaster-rapers and hate them immediately and love Cap!Sharon more, but...

Even if...let's say, they got her off one of the civilian ships that they folded into their crew, wouldn't Six basically have to come out and say, "Oh, BTW, before you give me a post, you might be interested to know I'm a cylon," for them to know? She killed seven of the crew...why? She could have blended in, become part of the crew, and blown the whole thing to smithereens (and gone back to another body and had a nice chuckle about it with her cylon friends)! They don't know about Leoben or Doral or Sharon. And even IF they found two civilian ships that happened to each have a Six on it, couldn't they play that off as, I don't know, being the Doublemint Twins, or something? Anything? These cylons are pretty smart. They wiped out the colonies, after all.

I just have a major problem with them being secluded since the colonies were destroyed, even tracking the cylons, and somehow knowing that, not only that there are cylons that look like humans, but also having one in their brig. But that's just me (yes, I'm a nitpicker).


Yes, I'm back from Texas! It was a blast...I'll have to post more on that later.

Comments

[argyle-s.livejournal.com]

Well, aside from saying "does it really matter how they found out?" I think I can offer a couple of suggestions. We've seen various Sixes leading toaster marches during the series (especially on Caprica when they were chasing Helo), so maybe she let them on this ship and was giving orders. Maybe they saw her walk off a Cylon heavy raider. Maybe they did the same kind of cremation test the did with a sample of Leoben and found the same synthetic compounds. Maybe, during one of her various beatings, rapes or interregations, she told them. Maybe they found her swimming in the water tanks planting bombs (it was mentioned in 'Water that the pressure would kill a human). I don't think it's such a stretch. I mean, Adama figured out that Leoban was a Cylon on some pretty flimsy evidence, and heck, they basically executed Doral on Baltar's word. Helo figured it out just by seeing a group of Sixes.

But, honestly, is it really any more important than why it took the Cylons 33 minutes to track the Olymic Carrier and jump after the fleet, or why the Cylons *in* the fleet haven't done major damage already?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Maybe they did the same kind of cremation test the did with a sample of Leoben and found the same synthetic compounds

...that was Baltar pulling crap out of his ass for why he knew Doral was a Cylon. No such test exists.

[argyle-s.livejournal.com]

No, it wasn't. The bit Baltar pulled out of his ass was spetroscopy, which the BS he used to get Doral put off the ship. They cremated a tissue sample from Leoban and it yielded synthetic compounds. Watch the pilot again. It's the scene where Adama and Tigh tell Baltar that there are humanoid Cylons.

Of course, it could have been Brain tissue or some other such that they can't get while the subject is alive. Until Adama pulls out the body in Flesh and Bone, I was under the impression that they had cremated the whole thing.

[centerspire.livejournal.com]

There are several possibilities...they all just smack of fakiness (and total writer cop-out) to me.

Yeah, I should probably just stop thinking about it...but I want to know. Wah!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I actually want to know the true story of the Pegasus. Her 'pulling into shipyards for overhaul' line was frakking bullshit, given the way it was delivered and the huge, gaping HOLES in it.

OMG 700 people died (where? on her ship? on others?), and then they were suddenly tracking the Cylons.

Riiiight.

[centerspire.livejournal.com]

Maybe Cain knows about Six being a cylon...because SHE'S a cylon.

kidding.

I wish everything wasn't so rushed on this show...we need to see some of these things...I mean, I love a good, rich story as much as the next girl, but maybe we're getting too many stories and not enough detail.

[jesus-freak1234.livejournal.com]

Well, she might have revealed it, like Leoben in Flesh and Bone, or they might have had someone like Baltar who found out through science...I think we'll just have to wait, though. :(