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If you haven't watched the latest battlestar look away now. also look away if you haven't seen the end of evangelion coz i compare this to that.
or if you don't watch read all you want.
I can't remember which bugger it was who suggested Ellen was the final cylon, but seeing it revealed i laughed. it was a strange laugh. it was more that i felt it should be hilarious enough to get a big laugh, but i felt more like chuckling. i miss catherine. but that's not because she likes battlestar, i just felt like throwing that in there.
the episode was good. mostly. i like that they didn't bother trying not to reveal secrets. they basically answered the old questions and asked new ones. which is something i think makes for more powerful and more interesting story-telling. earth got nuked. the 13th tribe are cylons. earlier today i thought that the final cylon would be like the 18th Angel in Evangelion, i.e the final cylon is humanity.
also, the whole all the bones are cylon thing sets off the thing that has been bugging me ever since the start when we were unable to figure out the difference between humans and cylons. if there is no biological difference between humans and cylons then that's it. they are the same thing. and if they are different they must be detectably so. although baltar did create a cylon detector, and i can't remember what happened with that. the thing is: all this talk about being programmed. ah i don't know what i want to say. mostly that it seems the distinction between human and cylon is becoming more and more arbitrary. perhaps that is the point.
the killing of dee shocked me. the finding of the second starbuck didn't. there is no final cylon. there's a whole pile of them. they are all cylons. everyone. maybe the resurrecting cylons aren't cylons at all, but a human species that found a way to clone themselves and download their consciousness. then these immortals found the cylons of the 12 colonies and conquered them. for some reason they took the name of these conquered robots and off they went. although that doesn't make sense.
i have faith that i will like the ending. i'm excited about seeing it. i worry that it will get too self-pitying. and that they'll be running for no reason. something needs to happen. i'd say something will.
i was a good return though, i will give it that.
or if you don't watch read all you want.
I can't remember which bugger it was who suggested Ellen was the final cylon, but seeing it revealed i laughed. it was a strange laugh. it was more that i felt it should be hilarious enough to get a big laugh, but i felt more like chuckling. i miss catherine. but that's not because she likes battlestar, i just felt like throwing that in there.
the episode was good. mostly. i like that they didn't bother trying not to reveal secrets. they basically answered the old questions and asked new ones. which is something i think makes for more powerful and more interesting story-telling. earth got nuked. the 13th tribe are cylons. earlier today i thought that the final cylon would be like the 18th Angel in Evangelion, i.e the final cylon is humanity.
also, the whole all the bones are cylon thing sets off the thing that has been bugging me ever since the start when we were unable to figure out the difference between humans and cylons. if there is no biological difference between humans and cylons then that's it. they are the same thing. and if they are different they must be detectably so. although baltar did create a cylon detector, and i can't remember what happened with that. the thing is: all this talk about being programmed. ah i don't know what i want to say. mostly that it seems the distinction between human and cylon is becoming more and more arbitrary. perhaps that is the point.
the killing of dee shocked me. the finding of the second starbuck didn't. there is no final cylon. there's a whole pile of them. they are all cylons. everyone. maybe the resurrecting cylons aren't cylons at all, but a human species that found a way to clone themselves and download their consciousness. then these immortals found the cylons of the 12 colonies and conquered them. for some reason they took the name of these conquered robots and off they went. although that doesn't make sense.
i have faith that i will like the ending. i'm excited about seeing it. i worry that it will get too self-pitying. and that they'll be running for no reason. something needs to happen. i'd say something will.
i was a good return though, i will give it that.