Pikko Pots wrote:
Can someone explain to me why she was able to see the five in the temple? I thought this temple was built by humans of the 13th colony on their way to Earth.
The theory I'm working with (and have for a while now) is that the Cylons didn't "evolve" into human forms. Humans and cylons are actually from the same stock and always have been. The Lords of Kobol may have introduced some kind of genetic programing into the human population in order to cause specific things to occur in the future (why is totally unknown of course). Maybe they were trying to create the next evolution of man or something. But this programming would occasionally cause certain "templates" to appear in the population (the twelve, which I'm sure is *not* coincidentally the same number of colonies). Those people would then (perhaps unknowingly) take actions that would lead to some desired result.
This could include the creation of the cylon race in the first place. It could include the introduction of human form cylons in that race. Did the cylons actually create them, or did they find them and incorporate them into the whole downloading/cloning thing? The fact that they know there are 12 models (and only 12 for some reason), but they themselves don't know who the remaining 5 are is a strong indication that they were found rather then created.
There's just too many things that go waaaaay back in human history and that tie directly into the human form cylons for this (or something similar) not to be the case. Why create 12 colonies and there be 12 models of cylon? Why create a "temple of the five" 4,000 years ago, which apparently was designed to allow a human form cylon (template human?) to see the five hidden forms? Humans clearly did this, so the answer has to lie with the idea that what we think of as "humans" and "cylons" aren't as distinct and separate as we believed initially.
This would also perhaps indicate that there was a 13th template created (a 13th "lord of Kobol"), who chose to go off and found earth instead of sticking around with the other 12. He might be "the one" that the cylons are seeking (perhaps again without knowing why). Notice that the Humans talk about "gods" (which are presumably references to the 12 lords who founded the 12 colonies). Cylons talk about "god" (the one who founded earth perhaps?). Everything that's going on in the series, both by humans and cylons may simply be some programmed desire/need to find this 13th template/colony. Even though the cylons may think of themselves as machines and enemies of man, they're apparently just as subjected to this programming as the humans are. They might be a bit more aware of it is all. They don't follow the "gods", because they know that they are copies of the 12 (7 of them anyway). They can't exactly worship themselves, so they deify the final one instead (although "the five" are pretty high up there to them as well).
It could even be that the entire conflict between the humans and cylons was created because without that kind of strife, they'd never leave the area of space they were in and seek earth. If, as I surmise, that's the programming they are both following, then this makes a lot of sense.
Dunno. Just a theory I've been hashing about for awhile and slowly refining. Whatever the "truth" is, it's pretty darn interesting so far...