Heroes of the Cylon

2007-05-27T01:02:58Z

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'''"Hero of the Cylon"''' is the title given to [[Sharon Valerii]] and [[Caprica-Six]] after their successful missions of [[Miniseries, Night 1|espionage]], [[Water|sabotage]], [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies|genocide]] and [[Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II|attempted murder]]. Their two missions resulted in the successful destruction and occupation of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] as well as damage and terrorism strewn through its [[The Fleet (RDM)|spaceborne survivors]] ([[Downloaded]]).

A [[Number Three]] congratulates Caprica-Six with this title after her recent [[Resurrection (RDM)|download]] as the [[Cylons (RDM)|occupying Cylons]] on [[Caprica (RDM)|Caprica]] continue their clean up of a city for their use.

Later, Caprica-Six and Valerii realize that the moniker has a taint; their status as heroes have marked the two [[humanoid Cylon]]s as being too individualistic due to their respective romantic involvement with humans [[Gaius Baltar]] and [[Galen Tyrol]], respectively (although Tyrol is actually a Cylon, the [[Humanoid_Cylon#Significant_Seven|Significant Seven]] are unaware of this). Three suggests that, if Valerii (and, by similar implication, Caprica Six) does not accept her true nature as a Cylon and forget her emotional attachments to humans, her consciousness will eventually be [[boxed]]. Caprica-Six is also tipped off by this problem by a [[Virtual beings|image of Gaius Baltar]] that only she can see and hear.

Caprica-Six and Valerii avoid boxing by succeeding in changing the Cylon's plan to replace humans as the citizens of the former worlds of the [[The Twelve Colonies (RDM)|Twelve Colonies]] and by seeking out the [[The Fleet (RDM)|surviving fragment of humanity]] to care for them as a parent would a child. After approximately a [[Unfinished Business|year]], the Cylon fleet detects a [[Cloud Nine|nuclear explosion]], which leads their fleet to find most of the Colonials inhabiting a [[New Caprica|new world]].

Accompanied by a [[Number Five]], the heroes of the Cylon demand the surrender of the colony from President Baltar ([[Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II]]).

While the former "Boomer" Valerii [[Rapture|eventually denounces]] her emotional ties to humanity, claiming that it was wrong to attempt to unite Cylons and humans, Caprica-Six continues to attempt to balance her duties as a Cylon with her [[Occupation|love of Gaius Baltar]] and the [[Rapture|safety and health]] of the hybrid child [[Hera Agathon]].

== Notes ==
*This is not the only time that the singular "Cylon" is used to refer to the Cylons as a whole. In "[[Occupation]]", a Number Six states that "a majority of the Cylon felt that the slaughter of mankind had been a mistake."

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Hero

2006-11-18T06:07:56Z

Ryantrask:

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{{Episode Data
| title= Hero
| image= Season 3 - Promo - Hero -Adama Tigh and Novacek.jpg
| season= 3
| episode= 8
| guests= [[Carl Lumbly]]
| writer= [[David Eick]]
| story=
| director= [[Michael Rymer]]
| production=
| rating=
| US airdate= 2006-11-17
| UK airdate=
| dvd=
| population= ?
| prev= [[A Measure of Salvation]]
| next= [[Unfinished Business]]
}}

== Overview ==
:''A [[Bulldog|figure ]] from [[William Adama|Adama]]'s past returns to haunt him. His return raises questions about why the Cylons launched their initial attack against the [[Twelve Colonies]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/battlestar-galactica-2003/hero/episode/748771/summary.html |title=TV.com Episode Summary}}</ref>''
== Summary ==

=== On [[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]] ===

* ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'' detects three [[Cylon Raider|raider`]]s. Much to the surpise of the [[CIC]] crew, two raiders are pursuing a third raider. [[Kara Thrace|Starbuck]] and [[Louanne Katraine|Kat]] are dispatched. After destroying the pursing raiders, they pursue the third.
* In CIC, Adama orders Kat and Starbuck to escort the raider to ''Galactica'', after hearing [[Bulldog]]'s communication squaks.
* Kat and Starbuck escort the raider in. In the hangar bay, Adama and the party that meets the raider, surprised at the fact that a human appears to have piloted the craft. A visibly weak Bulldog salutes Adama; Adama returns the salute.

=== On a [[Basestar (RDM)|Basestar]] ===

== Questions ==

*Did humans taken prisoner well before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies provide the original genetic pool for the humanoid Cylons?
*What class of Battlestar is the ''[[Valkyrie]]''?
*Why would Bulldog have been compelled to lie about the manner in which he escaped the basestar, and what motivated him to say what he did??

== Analysis ==

== Notes ==

*A revelation about something truly egregious and illegal that Admiral [[William Adama]] was guilty of doing during the days leading up to the [[Fall of the Twelve Colonies]], and how he has kept the revelation of that incident from rearing its head. An event transpires that brings it all home with a vengeance, and the ramifications are significant. (David Eick revealed this in an interview with ''iFMagazine'' <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1496|title=Interview with ''iFMagazine''|date=|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=|language=}}</ref>.)

*According to an [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with David Eick, this is probably episode 7 of [[Season 3 (2006-07)|Season 3]]. A contemporary of Adama's and Tigh's from the past arrives on ''Galactica'' with a very dark secret about Adama.

*In another [http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700002601 interview] with Eick, he revealed that this episode "involves a human POW who's been trapped on the Cylon base ship for the last four years, and when we meet him we realize it's a great homecoming for him because he was one of Adama's pilots. But by the middle of the episode you realize the reason why this guy was taken prisoner was because Adama shot his ship down. And it becomes sort of an episode about why such a thing would have happened and how Adama begins to believe that on some level he might have been responsible for provoking the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies."

*According to Ron Moore at the BSG Comic-Con panel, [[Carl Lumbly]] will guest star in this episode as "[[Bulldog]]", an old pilot of Adama's who was taken as a POW in the war.

== Noteworthy Dialogue ==

== Official Statements ==
*A video blog gives an insight to this episode during filming. <ref>{{cite_web|url=http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/index.php?cat=videoBlog&vid=34824|title=Introducing Bulldog|date=2006-10-11|accessdate=|last=|first=|format=VID|language=}}</ref>

== Guest Stars ==
*[[imdb:0447921|Barry Kennedy]] as Admiral [[Corman]]
*[[Lucy Lawless]] as [[Number Three]]
*[[Carl Lumbly]] as Lt. [[Daniel Novacek]]
*[[Donnelly Rhodes]] as Doctor [[Cottle]]
*[[Matthew Bennett]] as [[Number Five]]
*[[Rekha Sharma]] as [[Tory Foster]]

== References ==
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