"Battlestar Galactica": Ellen Is the 5th Cylon!

OMG--never saw this coming. But I can't figure out half of what's going on with this show. I still love it.

So yeah, Ellen, who's (supposedly) dead is the 5th Cylon everyone's been looking for. Except we haven't seen her yet. Tigh just had some flashback while walking out in the radioactive ocean on Earth. And here's the kicker--it seems everything on the entire show, the whole plot, all the fighting and all, has all been Ellen's plan! "Everything's been put in place," she said, as she lay dying in Tigh's flashback of an Earth destroyed 3,000 years ago by nuclear war.

Got it?

Kinda cool that Ellen is the 5th. I always liked her, cocktail in hand and on the manhunt!

But I still can't make all the connections! So, when Earth was destroyed, did all the humans escape (seeding the 12 colonies) and the Cylons stay behind only to eventually die out?

Are the Final 5 some type of reincarnated beings? Or just some kind of frozen clones?

And what the hell is Starbuck? She found her own corpse and burnt it on a funeral pyre! Now that's freaky! Even Leoben ran away from her.

Somehow, somehow the humans and Cylons are more connected than ever, but I just can't quite figure it out.

And poor, doomed Dualla--I knew she was gonna get it. RIP, girl.