I just e-mailed Tim and told him that Nicki Clyne will be at a con in Wheeling next June. (As will Jewel Staite, but I don't think I mentioned that.) This seems rather appropriate, then, don't you think?
#1. Imagine the emotional repercussions of Cally, who HATES Cylons with a passion, having to deal with being one. And oh, the bitter irony of her having killed Boomer (irony for both of them). And amazing plot possibilities open up between Athena and Cally, who've traditionally been at daggers drawn. Especially since in early S4 (and well, all of S4), Athena is in "If I hate the Cylons even harder than the humans do, maybe they'll declare me an honourary human" mode. I could see Cally not daring to tell her, but still really interesting and fraught interactions between them, with lots of dramatic irony. Because regardless of their history, Athena is going to be Cally's ONLY possible role model for how to be a Cylon mother and raise a half-Cylon child.
#2. No need for the paternity switcheroo they pulled in S 4.5, since if Cally gave birth to Nicky, then he's a Cylon regardless of who his mother is. Plus, all that "did Tyrol really love Cally?" stuff is irrelevant, because you bet your bottom dollar she loved him when Nicky was conceived.
#3. MUCH more interesting dynamic in the Henderson / Tyrol marriage in which Cally is scared to tell her husband the truth because she knows how he turned on his previous partner when he found out she was a Cylon. The early S 4.0 stuff is so much more interesting (and less sexist) if Tyrol's the one thinking Cally's having an affair (say with Anders), because she's sneaking around with the other Final Fives. Tyrol uses his knowledge of Galactica's back passages to eavesdrop on their Sekrit Club Meeting, realises they're all Cylons and his child is a Cylon, and freaks out.
When Cally gets home and starts talking about having another baby, Tyrol thinks he's being used as breeding stock, and flips out. He seizes the wrench (in a tragic replay of the last time he got that nuts) and knocks her out. He then takes Nicky and heads to the airlock, only to be intercepted by Tory, who manages to calm him down (maybe reminds him that Athena and Hera aren't so bad, so what's the point of killing himself and his half-Cylon kid? He calms down, and then Tory makes her move, protecting the Final Five's secrecy and ensuring Nicky remains with his Cylon mom, not his self-loathing, possibly suicidal human dad.
Then there can be all kinds of tension (both sexual and otherwise) between Tory and Cally in the aftermath. Because of course Cally is a mess thinking the love of her life preferred suicide to a Cylon wife. One can pretty much slot Cally into all of Tyrol's actions after 4.03, right up through the mutiny arc (Cally would probably be pretty damn familiar with Galactica's hidden tunnels and so on). Oh. My. God. Season 4 could've been so, SO much less misogynistic if they'd just picked Cally for a Cylon instead of stupid Tyrol. Even if the writers still went with Tory being killed at the end, it's a whole lot less woman-hating for Tory to be violently killed by one of her "sisters".
#4. It fixes the weird gender imbalance wherein among the Seven Dwarves we had 4 men and 3 women, and in the Final Five 3 men and 2 women, thus 7 men to 5 women. In fact, they could've even made the Finallest of the Final Five be, say, Gaeta rather than Ellen. That way the whole POINT of the tragedy of Tigh killing Ellen for collaborating with the Cylons isn't wiped away by having her resurrect. And holy shit, what if they played out the mutiny arc (except without the previous absolute destruction of the Hub, say a portion of it survives and jumps away in the confusion of battle)? Gaeta's whole raison d'etre for the mutiny was that he couldn't work with the Cylons. He mutinies, he's executed, he wakes up in a tub of goo next to a waiting Cavil (plus Boomer and a couple of quickly revived Threes, so that D'anna's suicide on Earth isn't so suicidal after all). Oh damn, oh damn, oh damn!
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I just e-mailed Tim and told him that Nicki Clyne will be at a con in Wheeling next June. (As will Jewel Staite, but I don't think I mentioned that.) This seems rather appropriate, then, don't you think?
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You've got me there. That is hot.
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My mind is awhirl with possibilities.
#1. Imagine the emotional repercussions of Cally, who HATES Cylons with a passion, having to deal with being one. And oh, the bitter irony of her having killed Boomer (irony for both of them). And amazing plot possibilities open up between Athena and Cally, who've traditionally been at daggers drawn. Especially since in early S4 (and well, all of S4), Athena is in "If I hate the Cylons even harder than the humans do, maybe they'll declare me an honourary human" mode. I could see Cally not daring to tell her, but still really interesting and fraught interactions between them, with lots of dramatic irony. Because regardless of their history, Athena is going to be Cally's ONLY possible role model for how to be a Cylon mother and raise a half-Cylon child.
#2. No need for the paternity switcheroo they pulled in S 4.5, since if Cally gave birth to Nicky, then he's a Cylon regardless of who his mother is. Plus, all that "did Tyrol really love Cally?" stuff is irrelevant, because you bet your bottom dollar she loved him when Nicky was conceived.
#3. MUCH more interesting dynamic in the Henderson / Tyrol marriage in which Cally is scared to tell her husband the truth because she knows how he turned on his previous partner when he found out she was a Cylon. The early S 4.0 stuff is so much more interesting (and less sexist) if Tyrol's the one thinking Cally's having an affair (say with Anders), because she's sneaking around with the other Final Fives. Tyrol uses his knowledge of Galactica's back passages to eavesdrop on their Sekrit Club Meeting, realises they're all Cylons and his child is a Cylon, and freaks out.
When Cally gets home and starts talking about having another baby, Tyrol thinks he's being used as breeding stock, and flips out. He seizes the wrench (in a tragic replay of the last time he got that nuts) and knocks her out. He then takes Nicky and heads to the airlock, only to be intercepted by Tory, who manages to calm him down (maybe reminds him that Athena and Hera aren't so bad, so what's the point of killing himself and his half-Cylon kid? He calms down, and then Tory makes her move, protecting the Final Five's secrecy and ensuring Nicky remains with his Cylon mom, not his self-loathing, possibly suicidal human dad.
Then there can be all kinds of tension (both sexual and otherwise) between Tory and Cally in the aftermath. Because of course Cally is a mess thinking the love of her life preferred suicide to a Cylon wife. One can pretty much slot Cally into all of Tyrol's actions after 4.03, right up through the mutiny arc (Cally would probably be pretty damn familiar with Galactica's hidden tunnels and so on). Oh. My. God. Season 4 could've been so, SO much less misogynistic if they'd just picked Cally for a Cylon instead of stupid Tyrol. Even if the writers still went with Tory being killed at the end, it's a whole lot less woman-hating for Tory to be violently killed by one of her "sisters".
#4. It fixes the weird gender imbalance wherein among the Seven Dwarves we had 4 men and 3 women, and in the Final Five 3 men and 2 women, thus 7 men to 5 women. In fact, they could've even made the Finallest of the Final Five be, say, Gaeta rather than Ellen. That way the whole POINT of the tragedy of Tigh killing Ellen for collaborating with the Cylons isn't wiped away by having her resurrect. And holy shit, what if they played out the mutiny arc (except without the previous absolute destruction of the Hub, say a portion of it survives and jumps away in the confusion of battle)? Gaeta's whole raison d'etre for the mutiny was that he couldn't work with the Cylons. He mutinies, he's executed, he wakes up in a tub of goo next to a waiting Cavil (plus Boomer and a couple of quickly revived Threes, so that D'anna's suicide on Earth isn't so suicidal after all). Oh damn, oh damn, oh damn!
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*makes notes, though*
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