Yeah. It's not very important what these robot-controlled humanoids that nearly wiped out humanity and constantly infiltrate human society are like anyway.
You’re not looking for best explanation, you’re looking for the explanations that create inconsistencies.
No, I'm looking for the best explanation. I've posited some. You say I make too many 'assumptions' and then posit a different explanation. What you don't seem to get is that your explanations do not satisfy me any more than mine; if they did, I'd have already used them as my working hypotheses. It's not as if I couldn't think of the genius possibilities you've brought up! It's just that I didn't find they resolved very much.
to the best of our knowledge no humans have seen it, so that possibility remains open. Is that a good explanation? No. But until a human sees the glowing spine it is an open possibility. There are a lot of open possibilities,
Indeed. None of them all that good. Which is my point.
that’s how these kind of story mysteries work, there’s a long list of open possibilities and slowly but surely things happen that closes them.
As I said, I don't agree that BSG is by its nature a "story mystery". The glowing spine is not a "mystery" that is going to be cleared up. It's a stupid factoid that makes no sense in light of what else we have been shown.
Nor do I expect that these things will be "closed" in any real sense. It's clear the writers are not interested in doing that. And how you can simultaneously tell me that I should "wait" for these things to be "closed" (which you know as well as I do is not really going to happen) while also telling me not to ask for closure at all because it's just TV, plans change, I have to accept things, and besides it's bad for storytelling if things mesh well (?), is beyond me.
You assume that when Adama tells Roslin that the medical staff on Galactica couldn’t find any differences that was a world defined declaration of their being no biological differences.
Right - I took his statement at face value as a working hypothesis and reasoned from there. An alternative hypothesis, as you suggest, is that there are sig. biological differences but they just couldn't find them. AS I'VE SAID MULTIPLE TIMES NOW, I find the latter explanation even less satisfying. Get it yet? I hope so cuz I don't feel like explaining the 'assumption' thing anymore. Please read my prev. post more carefully if you still don't get it, otherwise bye.
Again: 50,000 people/ 3 doctors. Who’s got time to dissect every single organ in some Cylon corpse? They’re busy dealing with the living. We’ve seen Cottle at work, did he seem to have lots of time to play with a corpse?
You haven’t posited any explanations, all you’ve got is it’s inconsistent. That’s the only explanation you’ve put forth, RDM screwed up.
But you’re wrong, there’s a perfectly valid explanation which you just keep insisting doesn’t exist: they just haven’t found it yet. That’s ALL the explanation any sane person needs. They simply haven’t had the time or opportunity. Nobody has seen the glowing spine so they don’t know to spend extra time working on the spine, so they haven’t spent extra time there, and they haven’t stumbled upon it during whatever other testing they’re doing. Why would any sane person need more explanation than that? They had 1 year with incredibly limited resources to look for something they don’t even know exists, why is it surprising they haven’t found it?
BSG isn’t a mystery. BSG, like most arc TV shows, INCLUDES many mysteries in the story. These mysteries are the reason for arc shows, they hook the audience.
No you did NOT take is statement at face value, you added to it. His statement was that his people had not found anything, that is the face value: nothing found. You ASSUMED that meant there was NOTHING TO FIND. Major huge massive difference very much NOT face value. Sorry you can’t understand that, but that’s YOU not RDM.