If they're really skillful, they can peel back the mystery's layers like an onion, as was done for the first several seasons of Burn Notice. Burn Notice ended with a big reveal in Season 1, and yet we learned that the big reveal was only the first layer, and so forth for a couple of seasons. I think it's more fun that way, because each big reveal is satisfying, but doesn't eliminate the mystery entirely, or perhaps raises even more questions than it answers. If they reveal all the secrets at the end of Season 1, then Season 2 pretty much loses that mysterious element. I mean it's not necessarily bad to have a season after we know the truth, to see how the characters react to it, but it's more fun for me at least to have mysteries wrapped in mysteries so that even as we're seeing the characters deal with one big revelation, we're still seeing more secrets hidden beneath the surface of which some or perhaps even all of then don't know yet.
Before I even saw the show, I started wondering which of the 6 actually knows who they really are. After seeing the first episode, I was leaning toward Six, because he was the last to awaken and everyone saw him not know who he was. Of course that could have just been good acting on Six's part. He was also the only one to start on the side of Three when they were debating whether to help the colonists, and then switch to the side of One. If he's trying to convert them--say from bad to good--appearing to start out on the selfish side and then get persuaded by One to do the right thing seems like a good way.
Once the conveniently complete files popped up at the end of the pilot, however, I started to suspect they might actually be heroes who the bad buys are trying to convert into assassins. In the second episode, the android's insistence that they had no reason to doubt the veracity of the conveniently complete files she conveniently found, and her calling Two by Two's alleged villain name, made me wonder if she might be the one who really knows.
A couple of people have suggested Five, since she's young and appears innocuous--not capable of physical mayhem--combined with her apparent skill with electronics, which some think might have summoned the ship that attacked them. I personally think she's too creepy and by being too creepy is calling too much attention to herself, but of course that could be a trick to throw us off.
One thought it was Three, since he appears to be the stereotypical big, dumb, violent guy, and likewise who would suspect him? I think though we saw him genuinely obsessed with finding out what's behind the big door, so I don't think so.
it's fun though that the one with the memory isn't obvious. It's even possible that none of them has their memory.
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atlasmb
10 years ago
Yes, it's very possible none of them have memory. And it is possible that their memories might come back.
How about this idea--the android was programmed to not access her memory until a certain time in the future. Then dormant commands could be put into play.
And obviously there could a person (or persons) behind the big door. It has so much potential to be a game changer.
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AdmrlLocke
10 years ago
I've been wondering too if Five is getting memories and dreams because she hit her head on the bunk when the artificial gravity resumed. If so, then perhaps, as you say, they might all get their memories back, one way or another. So far circumstances have conspired--or someone has conspired--to keep them busy and off balance, such as with the attack from the unknown ship. If they'd just assassinated the colonists, then they might just get their next assignment and go on being assassins. Now that they've rejected the first assignment, however, they might have time to start exploring ways to recover their memories.
I think it would be funny if it turned out that One actually was a murderer and criminal, and Three was some devoted family guy or something.
I like your ideas about the android and the door. I wonder too if it's possible that there's more than one someone, or more than one group, manipulating the crew, perhaps as cross purposes. I guess the obvious candidates could be the evil multi-corps and the rebels, but what if multi-corps are fighting each other (we've already seen they're competing with each other) or there's an evil government too? Maybe the attack on the ship wasn't a diversion at all, but rather an attempt by one faction to completely destroy the work of the other faction(s)?
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