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Significance of a Cylon's right eye

by Keith McDuffee, posted Apr 8th 2008 1:40PM
cylon raider eyeComicMix has weekly interviews with Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Mark Verheiden. In the latest interview, ComicMix asked an interesting question about something I didn't notice from the season premiere (warning: SPOILERS!):

CMix: In Tigh's hallucination, he shoots Adama in the same eye that Tigh lost. Intentional?

MV: Per one of the writers of that episode, Mr. David Weddle:

"I was waiting for someone to pick up on that telling detail. Congratulations. But I am disappointed you have not figured out its significance within the larger mythology of the show. It's all laid out for you. All you have to do is run the episode over again in slow motion, and the deeper truth will be revealed."

Hmmm... Makes me want to run it slow motion!


adama shotWhile I didn't run the episode again in slow-motion, I did go back again and watch the scene (it's actually embedded at the end of last week's review). While it's true that Bill Adama gets shot in the right eye, I didn't notice anything else of significance. However, I did notice that in the scene with Anders, it's his right eye that responds to the Cylon Raider. Interesting.

I'm wondering now if there's particular significance in a Cylon's right eye, as in that it's the eye that communicates with other Cylons in the same manner Anders did with the Raider. What's going to be interesting to see is how this is going to affect Tigh, since that's the eye he's missing. Was that eye removed for a purpose other than torture or was it pure coincidence?

I also wonder if the single-eye theory has anything to do with how the "toasters" have that familiar single, red eye that tracks back and forth.

I'd say this is complete over-thinking on my part, but Mark started it! So there!

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tati

I was just thinking--an eye for an eye. What that means in relation to the different characters is something I have to ponder further, though!

May 17 2008 at 1:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Maeghan

Maybe Bill is the last cylon? I still think it's Roslin, for no other reason than that I want her to live. Or resurrect. Either one is fine with me.

May 04 2008 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SFMatMan

Speaking of the right eye - anyone remember the scene in the very first episode (miniseries): In the midst of the initial Cylon attack and at the very moment the Galactica is getting word of it, Col. Tigh (a Cylon) is in his cabin looking at a photo of his wife - and he burns a hole in her picture right where her right eye is. The burn first creates a bubble, and then her right eye is replaced by a glowing red ring of ember, not unlike the Eye of Jupiter mandala Starbuck painted. Here's a screen-capture of the photo just before the hole burned through:

http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/8/8f/Miniseries_Ellen.jpg

April 19 2008 at 5:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Benjamin

Hmm. What color are Anders's eyes? And Tigh's (err... "eye")? "And the caravan of the heavens was watched over by a great lion with a mighty blinking eye, red and blue" The scriptures are supposed to be polyvalent, right? Perhaps the "different" cylons are to protect the fleet after all?

April 11 2008 at 2:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loudalmaso

Well, Saul went from persecuting the jews to being the Apostle Paul.

So Saul Tigh goes from persecuting the Cylons to being one of the four "fundementally different" Cylons...

who will he "serve"?
I'm kind of digging the theory that the Galactica herself is the final Cylon.

April 09 2008 at 1:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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bsgfan2003

After Cottle, I like Galactica as final too. (Especially after all my red light counts :)

April 09 2008 at 1:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
loudalmaso

you're absolutely correct. I meant to say Damascus. ( I just didn't know we could cuss on this board...hee)

April 09 2008 at 1:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bsgfan2003

Drat. He says all we have to do is watch it over in slow motion, and it's all laid out.

Now I'm counting red lights on dash boards, and bald pates. I will probably have full blown OCD by the time Friday rolls around. Thanks Mr. Weddle. :)

April 08 2008 at 10:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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loudalmaso

dig out your bibles...wasn't Saul blinded on the road to Amaous (sp)?

just sayin'

and I agreee, I think the writers didn't plan on Saul being a Cylon when they tortured him. they just aren't planning that far in advance. (if you believe what they say in the commentaries)

April 09 2008 at 7:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bsgfan2003

Do you mean Damascus?

If your right then, Saul will become an Apostle like figure for whom? Baltar's one true God.... also it could mean martyrdom...

April 09 2008 at 9:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
vacelts

Maybe I'm reaching, but in Adama's glasses I see the reflection of the board behind Tigh. With the hole that bullet left, I think his eye looks like the Eye of Jupiter.

Here are some screen shots:
http://redlightnaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/bsg-4-he-who-believeth-in-me/

April 08 2008 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Akbar Fazil

I do think that is a bit of a stretch, however I would not rule that out. Good call.

April 08 2008 at 5:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oreo

They also like leading fans in the wrong direction.

And Tigh was made a Cylon after he lost his eye. When Tigh was tortured they didn't know he would be one of the four.

April 08 2008 at 4:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gudlyf

There's a good chance David Weddle was joking, but if he is it reeks of fan mockery. As in, I don't think it's obvious enough that he's joking. So, instead, he's trying to throw fans into a tailspin by telling us to look at something that's not there.

Look, I know I like to over-analyze this show much like many do for 'Lost', but it's fun. If he's frakking with us, then it's just plain mean.

April 08 2008 at 4:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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