I'm guessing that's what will happen, though I bet they wanted to explore cylon willie in the second season.
I haven't seen any of the second season half yet, but I wouldn't rule it out at all that Bill Adama is in fact a skin job - there were hints to it during various parts of each season of BSG, and this only seems to further that possibility; how else could he seem to understand their motives and thinking, and how else could he fight Leoben almost on a par? How many parents name a child after a dead sibling? It would be creepy, disrespectful and many would be superstitious. I'm not going to make any assumptions about it - hopefully the answer will be given by the end of the Caprica series, but it seems highly plausible and Wikipedia is very often completely wrong.
The title reminds me of "Hic Sunt Dracones". Interesting.
The identities of all Cylons were revealed by the end of BSG. The whole story about them, who did what, who was created by who, etc. All the slots are taken and the old man simply never was a Cylon. It would actually break continuity if they now started claiming that he was.ZOe was a Cylon, and wasn't included in the Cylon history, was she?
The reason he was able to fight Leoben was that Leoben was already half dead as the radiation present at the site of Ragnar Anchorage was lethal to Cylons.
The only Cylon we never saw was Daniel. From what we were told, he was a sensitive soul, liked to paint, and was close to Ellen, which is partly why Cavil murdered him and did something to the fluid in which all of his clone bodies were stored, effectively and permanently destroying that model forever. Even if one survived, he couldn't have been the old man. For one, I can't really see him as a sensitive artistic soul or being best chums with Ellen, but more importantly he would have been recognized by the final 5 once their memories kicked in. He wasn't.
Seriously, saying that the whole colonial fleet was run by Cylons (both the admiral and his xo? Come on..) would be ridiculous and introduce quite a lot of inconsistencies.
Furthermore, William Adama's file we see in the BSG episode "Hero" states his mother's name is "Evelyn". Willie Adama's mother's name was Shannon, and Evelyn and Joseph just got together in the last few Caprica episodes. This would suggest they are going to have a kid of their own somewhere down the line and name him William again.
I certainly agree with that - the whole "God did it" explanation was bad enough - I'd not like it if Adama did turn out to be a toaster, even if it would otherwise have "fit", it would have spoilt the story.
There's nothing in Caprica's continuity that would clash with nuBSG's, and the fact that Bill Adama is NOT a cylon is a very good thing indeed.
The William Adama who goes on to command Galactica isn't born yet. Willie will have been his deceased half brother. And no, they won't make the old man a cylon. That would suck, badly.
"The Plan" sucked I have to agree on that one.
It seemed like an intellectual insult to the die hard fans who would buy it in the first place.
All of these so called network execs talking about demographics and forget key issues like oh, i don't know...
A plot, a storyline, maintaining an audience, gendre........
It makes us all want to suggest they are to blame for people dumping cable which in pretty much every aspect so far is true.
It's like watching the death of MTV and the rise of YouTube.
I was right, and the old man was never a Cylon. Good thing too, that would have sucked.Fair enough, then, though I had accepted the point when the mothers' names were brought up - I was merely making the point that other than that, it would have fit if they chose to go that way.Spoiler:In Caprica's last episode they even show William Adama 2.0 and tell him he was named after his (half) brother.