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I suspect her model's humantiy depends on how well her relationships are going at a given moment.

Or, perhaps, G-Sharon is off her rocker specifically because she had her conscious awareness of being a Cylon buried. Regardless of how her relationships are going, it's got to be an enormous psychological strain to think that you're human, and yet have this other, alien self at war with what you think is your actual 'self'.

I think Six is also fighting her programming...

I don't know. I don't see any sort of "fight" going on with Six at all; I see a whole lot of her manipulating Baltar, perhaps even out of genuine emotion on her part, but we have no idea yet whether she's doing it for her own ends or because she's furthering a greater Cylon 'plan'.

Also, there's the really interesting question of how much a given humaniform Cylon has "programming" at all. If they're really living organisms--even if they're artificially constructed/grown/whatever--are they "programmed" per se, at least in the "like a computer" sense? The humans certainly seem to think that the humaniform Cylons have "software", but to be honest, we just do not know. If they can interbreed with humans, it sounds like they're living organisms to me, in which case they've got as much free will as humans do. :)

Cylon copies group minds are stronger than we think.

If that is indeed a factor; I don't know if we've got evidence for that at all. We do know that a Cylon that dies will have his or her consciousness transmitted into a new body, but all we have to date as to whether all copies of a given model actively share information prior to a given copy's death is speculation.

Half of me is still absolutely convinced that the Six we've seen on Caprica is in fact Baltar's Six... and yet, Caprica is presumably light-years and light-years away from the Galactica's location now. Either the Cylon group-mind thing has to be strong enough to cover that kind of distance (which is not settled by any means; Starbuck, in "Flesh and Bone", certainly seemed to strike a nerve by speculating at the male Cylon prisoner that he might be too far away to send his consciousness home to a new body), or else whatever means Six is using to monitor Baltar has to work across that kind of distance.

Again, nothing that I've seen yet has settled this question to my satisfaction--but then, that's part of the fun. ;)

Cylons seem to be playing off of religious prophesy as much as the President is starting to. However, it seems to be mostly Six's gig. The male cylon we've seen hasn't made religious remarks yet.

Doral, the Cylon male we've seen as a suicide bomber and as Six's compatriot on Caprica, hasn't made any religious remarks. However, Leoben, the Cylon prisoner interrogated in "Flesh and Bone" (episode #8), absolutely made religious remarks. That was a huge chunk of the episode. So it's clearly not just Six's gig. :)

The Cylons have a plan. What is it?

That's the big question, isn't it. ;) As I've mentioned elsewhere on the thread, Dara thinks that the entire flight from the Colonies is getting stage-managed, but we just DO NOT KNOW! Hopefully we'll get more amusing answers to these questions once season 2 kicks in.

Why is Helo still alive? They could use any human on Caprica for breeding experiments...

Who says they aren't? Just because we haven't seen it on camera yet doesn't necessarily mean it isn't happening. ;)

On the other hand, it may be very possible that there aren't any other humans left alive on Caprica. The only reason Helo has stayed alive (well, aside from C-Boomer helping him) is that he's had regular anti-radiation meds; I rather doubt that such things are standard civilian issue. I'd absolutely expect that in the first couple of weeks after the attack, the vast majority of the survivors that remained on the planet dropped dead from radiation poisoning. The entire planet was carpet-nuked, after all.