Battlestar Galactica: The Truth of the Opera House [Speculation]

I believe there is indeed a 'third faction,' which has been manipulating things, perhaps the closest thing to that third faction are the basestar hybrids who seem to be able to sense the way things really are.

But I don't think Baltar represents that third faction either. He too is being manipulated. Now Inner 6 - she is still a big question mark as she seems to do most of the manipulation we have seen so far in 4 seasons.

Has everybody forgotten Tyrol's son? Isn't he important like Hera? or is the fact that Hera is the first what makes her important?

If the power that Inner 6 represents is benevolent, then perhaps we can expect something of a happy ending.

If, on the other hand, that power is malevolent - or ambivalent - then things are looking grim for our ragtag fleet of survivors.

Right. In other words, is the Opera House shared vision a prophecy or a warning?

Another thing that's been bothering me is the number of apparently human characters who are prone to visions. What's the mechanism by which this happens, assuming it may not actually be supernatural, but, like Arthur C. Clarke's maxim, any sufficiently advanced technology could appear to be supernatural, especially if a person isn't expecting a technological source.

The Cylons have a clear "vector" by which a shared vision could occur. They already share consciousness in some setting (after "death" and being uploaded). They also have some method by which they were able to transfer their consciousness over long distances. Note that they can apparently transfer their consciousness further than BSG's sensors can reach, since they were able to be resurrected even without BSG being able to detect a resurrection ship nearby. If this was just an electromagnetic signal of some kind, wouldn't every Cylong be a radio source and wouldn't a Resurrection ship be prone to detection as a giant radio antenna?

But how are the humans sharing in the visions? We already have at least one more human than final Cylon who has had visions of one sort or another. Roslin, taking a hallucinogenic drug, and Baltar, perhaps mentally unstable. Both offer a neat, traditional explantation for why they're susceptible to visions. We also have Starbuck's premonitions.

Do we include Rolo's cat? Are there perhaps many other people throughout the fleet who are experiencing minor, seemingly inconsequential visions? Could the vector for humans be sonic?

Warning: wild speculation ahead. It's been a while since there was any exploration of the computers that are used in the fleet. I think the last significant examination of them was in the original mini-series. But a running theme throughout the series has been the emergence of consciousness. We've seen both the raiders and the centurions on the Cylon side exhibit emergent consciousness, and they aren't exactly on the side of the human-form Cylons.

We know that the original Cylon war was caused by consciousness emerging among the Cylons and the computer systems that humans used before the war.

So what if this third party is an emergent consciousness in the computers the humans are using now? Humans have severely limited the capability of their computers, but what if the consciousness is spread throughout the fleet, like a giant distributed computing system?

Were Saul's ravings when he first heard the Cylon music a clue? ("It's coming from the ship!") It clearly couldn't just be BSG, if this is true, because Baltar continued to see Inner Six when on New Caprica while under occupation. But a good portion of the fleet had landed, so perhaps enough of the distributed network was intact. We also don't know what the effective range of such communication could be since, as above, we don't know the effective range that Cylons are able to transmit their consciousness now. This shared consciousness may also be manifesting among the Cylon fleet (the baseship hybrids).

Completely OT-Myk, you completely suck. Do you have any idea how much time and money my new BSG obsession has taken? That, and you didn't even have the decency to recommend I wait until the series concluded so I wouldn't have to wait for new episodes. Thanks pal, I really appreciate it! ;-)

ALL... WILL... BE... REVEALED...

...later.

...maybe.

what do u guys think about Adama getting his DNA downloaded in the Hybrid pool in Razor. Maybe he was copied to make the final Cylon?

Maybe there is a difference between human/cylon children:

Hera - 1/2 human 1/2 "regular" cylon
Nicky - 1/2 human 1/2 Final Fiver
Six's kid - 1/2 regular cylon 1/ 2 final fiver

Does it mean anything. I have no idea, but maybe TPTB will flesh it out next year.

The Opera House holds not only the future of what's to come, but also the past. The opera house had housed the final five in d'anna's vision. I believe that the truth of the Opera House is that Earth is the birthplace of Mankind, and that the final five cylons came from Earth and were actually the very first human model machines to ever exist. As a matter of fact they were the first fusions to ever exist. They lived there on Earth thousands of years ago, but had abandoned it because of a war fought between machines and humans. The Final Five didn't take a side in the war, and because they remained neutral, they survived. The survivors of the holocaust fled Earth and found a new home which they named Kobol. After thousands of years of peace there living with the "gods" trouble brewed once more with man, and that world was laid to waste. The survivors of this catastrophe founded the 12 Colonies.
Now everything has come back full circle to Earth. The Opera House explains how everything has come to pass until now, and what will lie for them in the future. Remember what the hybrid on the base ship said, "All of this has happened before, and it will happen again."