[WMCoolmon]

I checked BattlestarWiki. Under the "A Measure of Salvation" entry, it says:

This is the first episode in which Saul Tigh does not appear, more than likely due to his promise to William Adama at the end of "Torn" after Adama's confrontation with both Tigh and Kara Thrace.

Pretty sure that neither Tyrol nor Anders had any contact with the prisoners. Tory may have been with Roslin at the time.

[Polpolion]

I agree with you that I'd imagine the general color pallete of earth from orbit to be different though, maybe not so much in clouds or ocean but at least land and vegetation and such.

That's pretty much the essence of what I was originally getting at. 

[Grizzly]

How about... The fifth cylon is one of the survivors of the nuclear ammegradon on earth, and is the one broadcasting the signal in the first place?

[jdjtcagle]

Hasn't the final fifth been in the fleet from season 1?

[watsisname]

D'Anna said that only 4 were (at that moment) in the fleet, though she didn't specify, to my knowledge, if the 5th was ever a member of the fleet or not.

[Blue Lion]

The tattooed pilot is the 5th.

[Mefustae]

The tattooed pilot is the 5th.

Not Tiny!!

[jdjtcagle]

D'Anna said that only 4 were (at that moment) in the fleet, though she didn't specify, to my knowledge, if the 5th was ever a member of the fleet or not.

No, like I mean RDM said so...

[NGTM-1R]

RDM, like aldo, says many things.

Some of them are even true.

[WMCoolmon]

I think D'anna's statement is probably accurate, but D'anna is also an unreliable source - she's stated a fairly convincing motive to keep knowledge of the five to herself. If she revealed them all, they could simply kill D'anna and be done with it. So long as the fifth is unrevealed, D'anna is the only one who (presumably) knows who the fifth is - even the fifth themselves may not know.

Plus, this means that there could still be one Cylon aboard the Galactica. Had D'anna said there were five Cylons and they only came up with four names, it could've significantly changed things. Lee's apparent bargaining position would be weaker.

[Sandwich]

There's only a few people the 5th could be without it being a major anti-climax: Adm. Adama, Prez Rosiln, Starbuck, Apollo, or Baltar. Nobody else is major enough for it to have a sufficient "wow" factor.

My money's on Roslin.

[Flipside]

I can't help thinking this has something to do with the revelation that the final 5 can apparently age, since Tigh grew up and spent many years alongside Adama, who fought in the first Cylon War, this means that the Final 5 have been around for at least 50ish years, or that the 'real' Tigh is dead, or that the final 5 are not Cylons at all...

If they can age, then who is to say they are all adults?

Edit: It also provides a (tenuous) link with the whole 'Ship of Light' thing from the original series.

[Akalabeth Angel]

    Notice how much of what the hybrid said didn't actually happen. Oh, a dying leader will learn the secret of the opera house. Opera house? What was the secret? There was nothing revealed. And Kara thrace is teh harbringer of doom, but so what? Has she lead them to their doom yet? No one's dead. , Rosalin isn't supposed to reach the promised land, so we know Earth isn't it.

[General Battuta]

    Notice how much of what the hybrid said didn't actually happen. Oh, a dying leader will learn the secret of the opera house. Opera house? What was the secret? There was nothing revealed. And Kara thrace is teh harbringer of doom, but so what? Has she lead them to their doom yet? No one's dead. , Rosalin isn't supposed to reach the promised land, so we know Earth isn't it.

Hasn't happened yet. Remember, the next episode was meant to be aired a week after this one, not half a year.

I'm guessing Roslin will be learning the secret of the Opera House pretty soon, in show time.

Kara Thrace was the harbinger of death...and, lo and behold, the Cylons are now all mortal. You could make an argument that she was the harbinger of Cylon death.

The hybrid's statements have, so far, been unerringly accurate.

[WMCoolmon]

Unless the hybrid's just really, really good at cold-reading.

Hybrid: "Kara Thrace is the harbinger of...I'm seeing something starting with a consonant...a D...dirt? Diapers? Drool? Destitution? Death?"

Kara: "How the FRAK did you know that?"

Hybrid: "Uhh..err...JUMP!"

[Akalabeth Angel]

Kara Thrace was the harbinger of death...and, lo and behold, the Cylons are now all mortal. You could make an argument that she was the harbinger of Cylon death.

        That would be a pretty weak argument considering she wasn't at the battle, nor was it her suggestion to even attack the base in the first place. She didn't lead the cylons to their deaths, she lead them to the fleet where the 6 proposed the assault. Without the 6 the attack would have never happened.

        Thing I don't get is that everyone else at the hybrid heard everything she said, but no one seems to care about the "you're the harbringer of death" bit, not even Kara except at the moment in question.

[NGTM-1R]

The Hybrid which said that was the one in Razor, yes? It only said it to one person, who died.

[General Battuta]

        That would be a pretty weak argument considering she wasn't at the battle, nor was it her suggestion to even attack the base in the first place. She didn't lead the cylons to their deaths, she lead them to the fleet where the 6 proposed the assault. Without the 6 the attack would have never happened.

        Thing I don't get is that everyone else at the hybrid heard everything she said, but no one seems to care about the "you're the harbringer of death" bit, not even Kara except at the moment in question.

She was a harbinger. Harbinger. A premonition of sorts; someone who sets events in motion.

And she did just that: recovered the rebel Cylon base ship, united it with the Colonial fleet, and enabled the attack on the Hub. All following her vision.

[WMCoolmon]

It's too minor for it to fit. There's not enough of a direct connection between Kara Thrace and the destruction of the Hub. Unless something really weird is going on with the writing, you'll know beyond a doubt when Kara Thrace is fulfilling her "Harbinger of Death" role.

[jdjtcagle]

Watch Razor, the hybrid specifically says that if humanity follows Kara Thrace they will die.