Be Excellent To Each Other

It's like a tap with liquid revelation coming out, only the pressure seems to vary.

Absolute unilateral spoilers follow, do not read until you are fully up to speed, or you'll ruin your show:

I am now confused about the five - they were as I currently have figured cylons from Kobol? So either on Kobol humans made cylons and the cylons only went to colony 13 with humans, the other twelve were just human colonial parties. Or... Only humans left Kobol and Cylons were developed on earth discreetly and earlier than on the other colonies. Post-nuclear war (between the 13th colony humans and cylons) the five journey to the twelve colonies to warn them, arrive too late, and instead try to teach the 12 colony cylons by giving them the ability to be more human, which gives us the rest of the humanoid cylon models.

SO the following conundrums remain, either way...

The existance of god/gods is not explained, yet we've the recurring idea of 12 colonies, 12 models and the 'happened before' mantra. There's osmehting in that obviously.

The oracle who revealed the truth about hera to Deanna on New Caprica. She obviously tapped into somehting there, but what? god/gods?

Head Six/Head Baltar - what, and how?

Starbuck? Why did she return, and how come she is so overwhelmingly sexy in this series, compared ot the other three?

Mainly though I'm confused about the Number Sevens - we are told they are called 'Daniel' or were, and Cavil did for them. I'm guessing as there's things the five need to be together to do, the rest probably have some cumulative effect when united. I'd imagine Cavil probably killed all but one of the sevens, and when the reckloning arrives it will be revealed that Daniel was either Felix Gaeta, Tom Zarek or the man who oversaw their execution. Which his new missus will forgive him for, just before she rots to death. I'm unsure why I've not been aware of number seven before today - all the talk of the final five led me to believe all other cylons had been revealed. So why have I no recollection of anyone in the show or on the internet ever asking who number seven was?

Maybe I've forgotten or missed something, I've no idea what.

Fucking blinding stuff, though, still.

Glad there's a film at the end, I really don't want this to finish. This is to sci fi telly what Watchmen was to graphic novels. Simply the best telly ever.

Here's Richard Hatch's comment on Zarek:

First, having played Zarek for the past four years I would like to say that never did I play this character as a villain nor did I think he was one and I still feel that way. After paying the price of 25 years in prison for standing up for human rights and seeing both his family, friends and cohorts killed by a supressive government on his home planet he had every right to distrust the powers that be on Galactica that seemed to think that only they had the right to make decisions for the people.

And since Zarek was blocked illegally by Roslin and Adama at every turn including from winning a fair election he had to resort to any leverage he could gain to assert some kind of voice in what had become an almost dictatorial government run by Adama and Roslin, who looked with disdain upon the council of the 12 and did pretty much what they wanted without consensus of the people.

And after four years Zarek had basically only two suits and hardly any money and as the smart man he was from learning many lessons the hard way why would he want power for the sake of power. He experienced first hand what power could do on his home planet and how it could corrupt, and the only reason he would want power having been to hell and back was to ensure that the people had a voice in their govenment.

Did everyone forgot what democracy is about or do we just shut our eyes when the government no longer listens to the democratically elected representatives of the people just because we love the characters. And by the way I love both these actors and the character they play too the fact is they broke as many laws as they claim Zarek did.

The truth is from everything I've read and from all the scripts I played it was clear to me that Zarek's actions were always about making a positive difference which is what his whole life was about. My god he paid with 25 years in prison for it and with his life. And tell me, knowing what we know about the Cylons and their programming how could anyone ever trust them again. Even the human Cylons themselves have no idea of what they're capable of doing because of their hidden programming.

Also, Zarek was far from perfect, but tell me how in hell could he have accomplished anything in a honest and straightforward way when he was blocked in every way possible and his reputation tarnished by Adama so no one would trust him. Adama had all the power and the military behind him so he had to resort to whoever and whatever he could use to have any voice at all.

Does anyone forget that Zarek was in solitary confinement on New Caprica because he didn't go along with Baltar's agenda. Is that the M.O. of a power hungry terrorist.

Did anyone ever read Zarek's backstory. Doesn't seem so. People only took what Adama said about him as God's truth but if you really study his actions you would see that he never did anything that wasn't for the reason of supporting his idealistic vision of a true democracy where the government is accountable and this government was definitely not accountable.

The government of Adama and Roslin as much as we love these character broke every constitional rule or law to stay in power and to assert their will, regardless of their positive motivations they had destroyed a true democracy on the Galactica and yet Zarek is looked upon as the power hungry bad guy because he was one of the few to stand up and challenge them.

And why, because he believed that just because we have a 9:11 type holocaust you don't shut your eyes and turn over your power to the govenment because that's the surest way to lose your rights and what we as a people have fought many wars to protect. In my opinion to say that Zarek wanted power only for the sake of power is absolutely wrong and doesn't make any rational sense if you truly study this characters actions and words.

In truth Zarek, Adama and Roslin all wanted power for the same reason, to make a positive difference but Zarek still idealistically believed that the government should always be accountable to the people represented in this show by the council of the 12.

In closing it's so easy to just write off Zarek as another power hungry terrorist but tell me where in this four year story arc did he ever do anything that supported that belief. His words, his feedback his words of wisdom, his actions were always in support of his agenda to make the government accountable, and the reason for that was because he had suffered as much as anyone under a government that operated without acccountability and I hate to say it this seems to be the direction the present govenment on Galactica is heading. You're telling me that only Roslin or the Adama family including Apollo has the right to lead and no one can challenge them. That seemed to be the case here. Democracy is a fragile institution and can easily be lost if we don't make our govenments accountable and for me this amazing series BG has truly explored this theme in a powerfully honest way.

I feel privileged to have been a part of this wonderful series and I truly loved playing Tom Zarek. One of the most flawed, complex and misundertood characters I've ever played.

Angeli also commented after Hatch did:

[To] Harold S.: I respect you criticisms and hope that the remaining episodes will compensate for your disapointment with "Blood on The Scales." But for the record, Mr. Hatch didn't "hate the end of the show" -- at least that's what he told me and after spending many hours with him on and off the set, I'm inclined to take Mr. Hatch, a passionate and consummate professional, at his word. Once he understood the intent of the script, he fully embraced the ending. It's one of the reasons why Mr. Hatch's performance was so extraordinary (in my opinion).