BSG is back, and my wife and I couldn’t be more thrilled. We’ve been pining for new episodes, having to subsist meagerly on Netflix rations of Deadwood, Rome, and Dexter in the meantime.
Rather than discuss tonight’s return, the premiere of season four, there’s a more pressing matter at hand. After a cursory Google of the Internet, we were not able to find saying the following theory aloud (at least not in this precise version), so lemme lay it right out there:
Leoben Conoy is Kara Thrace’s dad.
Ok, yes, people have speculated on this, but the evidence is mounting. In particular, it doesn’t seem like anyone has broken down Leobin’s name Lost-style (i.e. as an anagram).
L-E-O-B-I-N C-O-N-O-Y
My wife, who came up with all of this before me, quickly noted that the word “bio” is in there. That seemed little help when we tossed his name into an anagram decoder, leaving us with “bio” + all sorts of nonsense.
But, the one word a traditional anagram program wouldn’t have? Cylon.
Cylon. Bio. One.
That is, the first father of a biological offspring, namely Kara. Not Hera. Kara.
(EDIT: We caught a minor error in our theory here. Even IMDB and the official BSG cast list spells “Leobin” as “Leoben.” Either our anagram solution is dead in the water or there is flexibility to name’s spelling. Perhaps an early iteration of his name before being finalized in the script?)
(SECOND EDIT: Looking at the DVD cases to season two, his name is also spelled “Leobon.” So, this is only to say that the proper spelling of his name is enough in flux for us to posit the whole anagram solution…)
Too gross to think about a father, albeit a robotic one, lusting after his daughter? Well, that’s the trick Ronald Moore and company have pulled on us: We’ve thrown lust into their relationship where there is none. All of Leobin’s creepy advances on Kara should be re-viewed in this light. When he predicts that she will one day embrace him and say she loves him, this is the statement of a father, not a suitor. When he says that he wants to be a family with Kara, he’s being genuine — not as a husband but as a parent.
It’s the vision of Leobin that allows Kara to make peace with her mother; he’s passed this ‘seer’ ability to his daughter. But it doesn’t take some sixth sense for Leobin to know so much about Kara — he knew her mother intimately and must have followed her life. Perhaps even Kara’s mother suspected (or knew!) of her paramour’s true nature, continually chiding Kara about her “special destiny.”
Leobin is Kara’s father. Kara is half-Cylon. She and Hera (and the Chief’s baby?) are the shape of things to come.
Welcome back, BSG. Geek out, folks.
That is a great theory
Great theory even if the anagram doesn’t work!
Be One Colony also fits.
ITA! I think it’s how she resurrected.
That could be it! I’v come to the conclusion that the new ‘crossbreeds’ represent ‘man’ in the greek myth analogy – man being made by prometheus (a titan) and woman by the olympians. Not everything in my theory fits, you can’t transpose greek myth clearly over galactica because greek myth doesn’t make sense and Galactica… well…
But stay with me here…
The first woman was ‘pandora’. Zeus sent her to unleash plagues amongst mankind. i was thinking that young Hera was this, but if starbuck is the first (pandora) then that explains why she is the harbinger of death.
Cool theory, but Leoben is spelt with an ‘E’ not an ‘I’.
OK, I did my BSG rewatch in November so I can’t recall and my google search turned up nothing… But when Leoben shows on the Demetrius, didn’t he kiss Kara in her little painted room? I could be totally making that up…
Kara is Hera
Either some kind of time slipping loop or Hera is a miracle reincarnation of Cara?
We’ll see I guess.
since the series is over and more has come to light, i think the missing seventh cylon is Kara’s father. he was said to be artsy, and her father was a musician. also, the final five knew the song that he wrote and taught to his daughter, the same one that led them to earth. they had probably heard it from her father when he wrote it. it would also explain that he didn’t leave Kara, he was killed.
That would be a great theory if they had not, in fact, made out before Kara Thrace took Kasey off of New Caprica to be reunited with the fleet.
That’s so interesting as I suspected that Leoben was Kara’s father as well. Kara’s mother might have met and been seduced by Leoben during the first Cylon war. Of course, it’s also possible that her father was some incarnation of “Daniel” (aka defunct Number Seven), as poop suggested. But then, did Kara’s viper pass through time and causing the resultant time-space screw-up effect to destroy Old Earth? Who knows… then again, maybe Kara was an angel… or a pidgeon