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Thank you, BSG. That was much better than the past few episodes. (Okay, okay FINE I love Cylon nonsense babble.) I think a lot of what I could say has already been said, but that's because I've actually be skimming around on blogs and comments and things. Mainly, I've realized that the BSG fandom is on about fifteen different pages with everything. So I'm not even going to try.
I am afraid of BSG fanfic. I am especially afraid of BSG fanfic now that 'Daniel' exists. It's so strange to me that people actually think he'll be seen. I'm thinking he was just a lampshade for the writers not realizing that someday they'd have to be able to count. I don't think he's secretly in the fleet, I don't think he's secretly Kara's father (though that is slightly more plausible). I really wouldn't be surprised, I guess, if he did turn out to be someone, but all the speculation that he's Gaeta, or Baltar, or Kara, or Kara's father is just... ugh. We've lost most of our flawed, interesting human characters to Cylonity, I don't think we'll have more.
I don't dislike Ellen as the final Cylon, now that I've... seen her as the final Cylon. Though this does muck up pretty much everything. Cavil knew all of them from the start? That... At some point, I'm going to have to go back and rewatch everything.
John Hodgman? Seriously? Brain surgeon John Hodgman... That was so, so close to breaking some kind of fourth wall, but somehow they hung some kind of perception filter on him, because I couldn't ever focus directly on him. I'm saddened that they didn't keep the supposed shut the frak up line, complete with subsequent crying. But that probably would've broken me more.
Is it sad that the most heartbreaking part of this episode was knowing that Galactica is dying? Those scenes made me so happy. Also... Chief back to being Chief? About. frakking. time. ♥ I can like him again. Adama, on the other hand, is having some serious drinking issues, and I really want him to be able to sit down and have a nice rest. One that doesn't involve dying. Knowing that he's going to have to deal with Roslin dying in the near future is just massively unfair to the poor man. But I suppose part of this is him preparing himself for the inevitable... (frak Adama is doing the same thing to his ship as was done to Roslin to cure her cancer the first time! I hope I am not the only person who has noticed this utterly terrible metaphor.)
I think all of this brings me right back to my 'If anyone is secretly human, Tori is' theory. See, what's been bothering me about all this who and what's a hybrid stuff is the strong line we're drawing between humans and Cylons. Perhaps (and this would thoroughly screw up the entire philosophy of things) what we're looking at is two sets of human beings who evolved divergently, with two different sets of technology. Everyone seems to be stumped by what it is that identifies the cylon remains on Earth as Cylon, because everyone is thinking of them in terms of machines. I mean, obviously the centurions are, but what makes the skinjobs any less biologically human other than their ability to interface with machines? (Which, given the particularly wonky "all this happens over and over again" evolutionary circumstances, may actually be possible as an adaptation that dips into and out of recession over the generations.) Cavil has never been a machine. Boomer, Tyrol, Ellen, none of them are or have been actual numbers-driven machines. So what makes them not just simply genetic experiments? Even if a memory is written down and transferred in ones and zeros, the way the physical brain handles it after that is pretty organic. I'm way out on a limb here, but I'm putting it out there as my theory, because it seems kind of plausible to me, and I want to be able to lay claim to it later (like calling that Anders and Tyrol were Cylons).
Otherwise today was quiet and dorky. I got yarn for a new project. I went to Toys R Us to get Shaymin. That's probably enough nerdiness to last me until... tomorrow.
I am afraid of BSG fanfic. I am especially afraid of BSG fanfic now that 'Daniel' exists. It's so strange to me that people actually think he'll be seen. I'm thinking he was just a lampshade for the writers not realizing that someday they'd have to be able to count. I don't think he's secretly in the fleet, I don't think he's secretly Kara's father (though that is slightly more plausible). I really wouldn't be surprised, I guess, if he did turn out to be someone, but all the speculation that he's Gaeta, or Baltar, or Kara, or Kara's father is just... ugh. We've lost most of our flawed, interesting human characters to Cylonity, I don't think we'll have more.
I don't dislike Ellen as the final Cylon, now that I've... seen her as the final Cylon. Though this does muck up pretty much everything. Cavil knew all of them from the start? That... At some point, I'm going to have to go back and rewatch everything.
John Hodgman? Seriously? Brain surgeon John Hodgman... That was so, so close to breaking some kind of fourth wall, but somehow they hung some kind of perception filter on him, because I couldn't ever focus directly on him. I'm saddened that they didn't keep the supposed shut the frak up line, complete with subsequent crying. But that probably would've broken me more.
Is it sad that the most heartbreaking part of this episode was knowing that Galactica is dying? Those scenes made me so happy. Also... Chief back to being Chief? About. frakking. time. ♥ I can like him again. Adama, on the other hand, is having some serious drinking issues, and I really want him to be able to sit down and have a nice rest. One that doesn't involve dying. Knowing that he's going to have to deal with Roslin dying in the near future is just massively unfair to the poor man. But I suppose part of this is him preparing himself for the inevitable... (frak Adama is doing the same thing to his ship as was done to Roslin to cure her cancer the first time! I hope I am not the only person who has noticed this utterly terrible metaphor.)
I think all of this brings me right back to my 'If anyone is secretly human, Tori is' theory. See, what's been bothering me about all this who and what's a hybrid stuff is the strong line we're drawing between humans and Cylons. Perhaps (and this would thoroughly screw up the entire philosophy of things) what we're looking at is two sets of human beings who evolved divergently, with two different sets of technology. Everyone seems to be stumped by what it is that identifies the cylon remains on Earth as Cylon, because everyone is thinking of them in terms of machines. I mean, obviously the centurions are, but what makes the skinjobs any less biologically human other than their ability to interface with machines? (Which, given the particularly wonky "all this happens over and over again" evolutionary circumstances, may actually be possible as an adaptation that dips into and out of recession over the generations.) Cavil has never been a machine. Boomer, Tyrol, Ellen, none of them are or have been actual numbers-driven machines. So what makes them not just simply genetic experiments? Even if a memory is written down and transferred in ones and zeros, the way the physical brain handles it after that is pretty organic. I'm way out on a limb here, but I'm putting it out there as my theory, because it seems kind of plausible to me, and I want to be able to lay claim to it later (like calling that Anders and Tyrol were Cylons).
Otherwise today was quiet and dorky. I got yarn for a new project. I went to Toys R Us to get Shaymin. That's probably enough nerdiness to last me until... tomorrow.
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It's going to be interesting seeing how things got from point H to point W. XD
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Things got there pretty curvy-like and strange, I think. But I've lost track of so much of what happened before it almost seems like what's happening now makes sense. ^_^