SPOILER ALERT!!!
Good, you have been warned...
Mods, if you think this should belong in the BSG thread, feel free to merge. I just made a new thread because it's a specific question.
***Spoilers***
I finally got the 5th season on DVD last monday, and a friend and I still have some questions. I'll try to explain the situation with the Final Five as I see it. If I'm wrong somewhere, please correct me, ok?
On the original Earth (not ours), there were 13 tribes. One of them were Cylons, amongst them the Final Five (FF). The 12 human tribes left Earth and eventually found Kobol. Back on Earth, the Cylons made, well, euhm, Cylons, and they turned against them. However, the FF, especially Helen, had already invented Resurrection and had a spaceship in orbit. They "survived" the holocaust and traveled after the other 12 tribes.
Due to them traveling as reletivistic speeds, time had little influence on them, yet it still took a long time to catch up, some 2000 years. On the way, they dropped the hints, like the Eye of Jupiter.
In the Colonies, humans developed Cylons again and later the First Cylon War erupted. The 13th tribe, which at this points consists only of the FF, contacts the Cylons. The Cylons retreat and together with the FF, they developed the seven other models.
I assume John/Cavil revolted, meddled with the FF's memories, and send them off to the colonies as sleeper agents. He keeps their resurrection-bodies away from the other Cylons. Finally, he initiates the Second Cylon War.
However, that fails to explain some things. How come Saul Tigh gets older, which we clearly see during flashbacks, while the others don't? How were they "planted" in Colony society? Tigh, as a high ranking officer, probably underwent several background checks. Anders was a venerated sportsman, so his life was probably under journalistic scrutiny.
Can someone please update and correct us?
Thanks in advance!
