darcydodo | "Lay Down Your Burdens"

First of all: Tyrol is Mario Savio! OMG! :) It's funny, if I didn't hang out in the Free Speech Movement Café on a semi-regular basis and read the walls while standing in line for coffee, I'd have no idea that Tyrol's union speech was almost direct quotation from Savio's free speech orations. Is my circumvented ignorance a result of not caring for American history, or do we just by and large not read some of the more important speeches in our high schools?

Now, on New Caprica from an Aeneid-based standpoint. The colony had to be founded, and it had to be named after their old homeland, and I have no idea what's going to happen next. :)

Here's what happens in the Aeneid: First Aeneas founds a city on Crete (at the beginning of Book III), which he calls Pergamum, believing Crete to be their old homeland that Apollo referred to. But it quickly meets with disaster, as plague strikes the colony, and the penates come to prod Aeneas along towards Italy. Very few people remain behind when they leave. On their way to Italy, a bit further along in Book III, they stop at Buthrotum, where Helenus and Andromache are ruling what amounts to a miniature golf version of Troy. Then there is the city that Aeneas establishes in Sicily (towards the end of Book V), after the women burn the ships because they don't want to travel anymore (admittedly, they're egged on by Juno), and of which he puts Acestes in charge. He names it after Troy, calling one part "Troy" and the other "Ilium."

If I were to map that onto the BSG storyline, I'd make these analogies: Pergamum is Kobol. Buthrotum is the appearance of the Pegasus. The Sicilian colony is New Caprica. Yes, I'm probably stretching, but I like the analogies.

I had another bright flash of inspiration regarding Hera, this evening, while I was driving back from rehearsal: Hera is Juno, who was the one persecuting the Trojans on their travels. From that perspective, it makes plenty of sense for Sharon to name her daughter after this particular goddess, since the Cylons are filling that role here.

Maybe now it's time to go get caught up on some fanfic, while the webisodes are downloading. :)