The fall of Balthar. He screwed the human race not once, not twice, but 3 times!! He probably turns to cylons in the next season. There are some serious twists and turns begining to form here. I have a strange feeling those 3 "Cylon advisors" are this series' Lucifer from the old series. I think that in the next season the humans will win over the Cylons for the 3rd time and escape. Balthar will most likely be ousted and will take refuge with the Cylons with the 3 Lucifers as his advisors.
The capture of Balthar from the original series:
But their still remains the 2 good Cylons - Sharon and Number Six. They are spreading the word that peace must survive between humans and Cylons. What will be there fate? Lucifer from TOS had an evil counterpart that lied, cheated, and was just plain nasty, not unlike some of the human Cylons in the new series. The Lucifers in TOS had part of the reptillians brains adorned in a dome atop their heads as a sign of power. It is also curious to know that their supreme leaders are REPTILLIAN!!
Lucifer from TOS:
The new twists, obviously are what the writers of the new series have done with the writing. How close will they stay to the original series and how far off will they wander? Who knows. But we do know that at some point the fleet will encounter a few aliens - The Beings of Light:
and the Count Iblis (he refered to himself as the Devil, a Being of Light who fell from grace and is now using his powers for evil):
The original series had the Cylons being created not by humans, but from a reptillian race called the Cylons:
The robotic/human cylons overthrew the reptillian Cylons and became hell-bent on destroying all human life in the galaxy. It is also speculated that Count Iblis helped create the robotic Cylons for the sole purpose of playing his evil game with the human race. Since the new series has the Cylons coming from the humans and not from reptiles, it will be curious to see how they introduce, if at all, the Beings of Light (as they played an intergal part in describing to Starbuck where Earth is, and thus having the fleet find Earth).