Some BSG thoughts

[darcydodo]

I just watched Downloaded. It was fascinating even before it got to the opening credit sequence. I'm puzzled why they didn't show Leoben in the previouslies, and since I think I recognized the back of his head in the café, I assume it's not 'cause he wasn't available for the episode. I'm slightly amused/annoyed that they conveniently manage only to have the known cylons in any given region on Caprica. What, the other models are too delicate to help with the rebuilding work? (Speaking of which, I loved the bullet-head lifting the tree with its bagged rootball into position.) Caprica-Six's Baltar companion is fascinating, both in that he exists at all (what the fuck is up with him and phantom!Six?), and in that he's almost the diametric opposite of phantom!Six, edging Caprica-Six closer to humanity without evidently even trying to do so, while phantom!Six pushes real!Baltar deeper into insecurity and raving lunacy and, I suppose, inhumanity by virtue of being set against what is left of humanity and working in the interests of the cylon god.

I adore the fact that the baby was named Hera. It poses some problems, religiously speaking, since I don't see anyone wandering around called Apollo (callsigns aside) or Artemis or Athena or Zeus. Etc. On the other hand, I like to think that it symbolizes a connection akin to marriage between Helo and Boomer. Besides which, a cylon naming her child after a human divinity? Fascinating.

I'm placing bets with myself on whether it will turn out that Maya's a cylon. On the one hand, that would be too easy, since then presumably the other cylons would quickly find out that the baby exists. On the other hand, it would be delicious. And she'd raise our ethnic quota for the cylons: so far, two white males (Leoben and short-guy); two white females (Six and D'Anna), one of whom is Australian (hee!); a black male (the farm-doctor); an Asian female (Sharon)... am I missing anyone? Do we really only know six of the twelve so far?

And Anders is going to have a really hard time now, having seen proof that not all cylons are the same, and some of them apparently just want to jones on that lovingkindness that their god apparently supplies. Note to phantom!Six: Idiot, if it's God's will that the child survive, then clearly the child has survived, n'est-ce pas?

Anyway, fascinating episode. I'm curious to see how many of my theories/questions get resolved in "Lay Down Your Burdens" (I keep wanting to call it "Lay Your Burdens Down") or the webisodes or this season's premiere.

Oh, also, there was a guy back in Athens who tried to stage a coup that completely failed. His name? was Cylon.

Comments

[anemone.livejournal.com]

Hey, would you mind making your BSG posts public? I have some friends I'd like to point to them...

[darcydodo]

No problem; I've unlocked this and the next one, at least. Anything that also involves stuff unrelated to BSG I've left locked. But it's also really only this one and the next that had anything interesting. :)

[mijven.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[darcydodo]

You're welcome. I don't know what anemone wanted you to see, but enjoy! :)