OK, I’m talkin’ spoilers here so if you’re a fan and have not watched the season finale of Battlestar Galactica, walk away from the monitor now…
pause…
Ah, good. For all of you who are still lurking about, I have a theory. As you know, Romo Lampkin, Baltar’s defense attorney, was able to get a not-guilty verdict. What you may NOT know is that writer/producer Ron Moore planned on killing off Lampkin in the first episode he appeared in but decided against it for story reasons (primarily that he could not see Apollo “carrying” the trial by himself and getting to the result that they wanted, i.e. the not-guilty verdict).
But I had a potential epiphany.
What if Lampkin is more than he appears to be?
And no, I’m not saying he’s the fifth cylon (my bet on that one is Admiral Cain – I won’t go into why here, but trust me, if I’m right it would be FANTASTIC when we get to the pay-off). I’m saying he’s… more than that.
He’s Count Iblis.
Now about half of you are going, “who?” The other half are going “no-way!” and the last half are thinking “wow!” And yes, I know that’s three halfs, but I’m on a roll.
Count Iblis appeared on two episodes of the original series, effectively the character was the equivilent of our Devil, Lucifer, etc. and he tried to manipulate the characters into dark places through his lies and manipulation. He was balanced by The Lords of Light, nobel extraterrestrial beings who were – well, angels.
Ron Moore has already borrowed ideas from the original show if they struck his fancy (see Admiral Cain, Pegasus, etc.). I think he’s doing so again. I’m pretty certain the reason Starbuck is alive is, like in the original show, she was saved by The Lords of Light, who showed her the way to Earth (that wasn’t no Cylon Raider in the episode she “died”). And I’m beginning to believe that both they, and Lampkin, will play a huge part in the last half of the (presumed final) upcoming season of Galactica.
Remember, “this has happened before, and it will happen again.”
Time will prove me wrong, or not. At any rate, time is a major annoyance, as we won’t see any new episodes until 2008…