BSG: Season 4

[Pren]

It's gonna be like one of those animes where OH SHIT WE UNCOVERED A 17TH CYLON.

[Kreugen]

Anders reaching for the console all tentative was pretty cool.

So, Starbuck - harbinger of death for who exactly?

[Mist]

Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that the hybrid prophecy about Starbuck is purposefully worded funny. It said that 'she is the harbinger of death' and 'she will lead humanity to it's end.'

Leading humanity to it's end could just mean the end of it's journey. The harbinger of death thing was another whole sentence before it, a separate thought. Main thing to remember is that she destroyed the first cylon resurrection ship, so that's a whole lot of death right there. A harbinger is just a sign of things to come (a phrase also used by Baltar's Head Six often) and destroying that resurrection ship was a sign of things to come for the cylons.

[Arative]

Originally Posted by Kreugen

Anders reaching for the console all tentative was pretty cool.

So, Starbuck - harbinger of death for who exactly?

In many religions and schools of thought, death is a time of change. So Starbuck leading them all to their deaths may not mean, they are going to die but rather to a time of change. Or I guess it could just mean they are all going to die.

[Mist]

The quote from the hybrid at the end of Razor was:

Kara Thrace will lead the human race to its end, she is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death; they must not follow her.

The quote from the hybrid in this most recent episode was:

The dying leader will know the truth of the opera house. The missing three will give you the five who have come from the home of the thirteenth. You are the harbinger of death, Kara Thrace. You will lead them all to their end. End of line."

Neither of them say Kara will lead anyone to their deaths, only to their ends.

[Malakriss]

"she is the herald of the apocalypse, the harbinger of death; they must not follow her."

Whether they'll die or not, I'd still want to keep my distance...

[x1hundredregrets]

I think the best interpretation is that she will lead the CYLONS to their deaths/ends. After all, this is being spoken by the Hybrids after all. The human race's end is Earth. The Cylon's end is death, which they will most likely find waiting for them at Earth. Either they'll destroy themselves in the final battle of the civil war. Or the humans from Earth have a military and kill anything remotely Cylon.

[Mist]

Pretty sure the show will end up with the centurions and raiders killing off almost all the humanoid cylons, and the remaining now mortal ones interbreeding with the humans. The centurions and raiders will then go off to some other planet and have their own homeworld to eventually return decades or centuries later.

[Kreugen]

With Baltar as their leader, just because.

And the cycle repeats...

[Goofy]

i have a feeling that when they find earth it will be a place where cylons and humans have lived together for decades and everyone is a hybrid

[Candiarie]

Originally Posted by Goofy

i have a feeling that when they find earth it will be a place where cylons and humans have lived together for decades and everyone is a hybrid

Pretty much where I'm at and it kind of goes with what the hybrid said. Leading humanity to its end because they find out they are all cylons. And harbinger of death because being a cylon isn't exactly being alive.

[Bizanich]

Originally Posted by Candiarie

Pretty much where I'm at and it kind of goes with what the hybrid said. Leading humanity to its end because they find out they are all cylons. And harbinger of death because being a cylon isn't exactly being alive.

While that'd be an interesting ending, do you think they'd have the balls to go for an ending like that?

I can't see the normal viewer accepting that all the humans become Cylons.

Not that it'd matter with the show being over, I guess.

[Mist]

Originally Posted by Kreugen

With Baltar as their leader, just because.

And the cycle repeats...

Yeah, that's likely. Baltar and 12 apostles, who become the original prototypes for 12 new cylon humanoid models.

[lendarios]

Silly question. What is the opera house?

[mek]

The place where a number of visions have occurred; first where Baltar and HeadSix met Hera (before she was born), and then later CapricaSix, Athena and Roslyn shared a vision there and all woke screaming.

D'eanna has also seen the Final Five in the opera house, I believe.