I hope you don't mind if I jump in here. (^_^)" (Overall, I was okay with the finale... Hee.) Anyway, on the entire mitochondrial eve thing... I sort of laughed a bit because well... MCB. Anyway, the only reasoning I can come up with is that they are relying on the 'fiction' part of science fiction so as twisting it a bit, but mDNA (mitochondrial DNA) is passed directly from mother to offspring without variation, so my impression is that they used this as the cylon's basic contribution to all resulting humans on the planet? That we are ALL hybrids in a way? Only problem with that is - plants and animals have the same mDNA construct (I think - I need to review) - that and chloroplasts as well - so... (^_^)"

As for the colonialism aspect - I actually didn't even think about that. (o_o) However, what I do remember from human evolution (need to review - again) there was a point where human evolution branched from two main groups and there were questions as to one group interbred with the other in order to form modern day Homo sapiens or if one evetually dominated the other, evolutionary-wise, so much as to lead to the cutting off of the other branch. Hmm... *food for thought*