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Originally Posted by diebitter
Well, of those 3, and based on the information that the cylons picked 12 archetypes, only 1 seems to be a basic human archetype to me...
It actually might be more interesting to go through the known Cylons and see what archetypes they represent.
However...
Baltar - The traitor, later, The false prophet
Roslyn - The leader, later, The prophet
Starbuck - The anti-Hero, later, The guide
Apollo - The hero, later, The leader
Helo - The idealist
Adama - The soldier
IMHO, it
has to be one of these 6 as they're the only characters prominent enough this last season. ie; if it was going to be Geata or Dualla they wouldn't have faded into the background so much.
I still think it's Apollo as it makes the most sense for his arc, which is a pretty textbook hero's journey. Particularly with a lot of the subtexts being about the duality of Humans and Cylons and the synthesis of the two (hybrids). Apollo then becomes the hero and leader in both the Human
and Cylon cycles.
I don't think it can be either Roslyn or Baltar. In Roslyn's case, why would a Cylon get cancer? There's a convention in the series that Cylons can't be detected (which is redic) but they're not human and have displayed superhuman capabilities.
Baltar is not Cylon for a couple reasons. He's spent way too much time angsting about being a Cylon to actually turn out to be one. In addition, he's part of the repeated theme of Human+Cylon duality. Baltar+6 means that Baltar is human. Particularly all the visions of Baltar+6+hybrid as Adam&Eve.
We know Helo is not a Cylon because his child is a hybrid. (And now that Galen is known to be a Cylon, why has nobody gone "Holy crap, another hybrid?")
One argument in favour of Adama based on this is that he's the only one who's archetype has not evolved. But I'm not convinced the writers on this show are really looking at this that deeply.