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.
If this show really has implied that there are <=3 doctors for 50000 people on dozens of ships, go ahead and add that to my list of implausibilities. (In these 4+ or however-many years, no one saw the need or possibility of training/retasking people for medical work?)
Also, not sure why it requires someone to be 'a doctor' to work on the Cylon biology problem.
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.
This is a valid explanation but LIKE I SAID it raises new problems/questions for me so it doesn't help.
Nobody has seen the glowing spine
Which is problematic by itself. How long have Helo and Sharon been together now? How many times has Baltar slept with one Cylon or another?
BSG, like most arc TV shows, INCLUDES many mysteries in the story. These mysteries are the reason for arc shows, they hook the audience.
Again, I don't consider these things "mysteries" nor do I think they are "the reason" to watch BSG nor do I think they hook anyone per se. They are just stupid details that don't mesh and don't paint a coherent picture. In fact (as you've said a few posts back!) enjoying/getting hooked on BSG probably requires ignoring such details and not thinking about them too hard.
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.
No I didn't. I made the hypothesis that there was nothing to find, and reasoned from there, and found it problematic. I know full well (thanks very much) that another possibility is that they just didn't happen to find the biological differences that are there but they are subtle, like an 'enzyme sac'. I find this possibility even more problematic. GET IT YET? Let's hope so because I'm not going to explain it again nor am I going to continue to listen to you tell me what I do and do not think.