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gategrrlI'm still thinking, Holy Crap! because the implications Moore and buddies have brought into play are, if not entirely a surprise, unexpected in its expression.
This is all winging out of my head as I drink my morning coffee before I correct my homework and send it in.
The set-up: Starbuck finds her body still in its Viper shell, burned almost beyond recognition, but with medallions and dogtags to prove that it's her body. She sets it on a funeral pyre, and hesitates telling Apollo about it when she finally meets up with him at the end of the episode.
Dee and several others find evidence of thousands and millions of skeletons as well as the remains of a Cylon Centurian of a design which is not familiar to any of them, Cylon or human alike. Further revelations show that NONE of the skeletons found are of the variety known as *human*--the qualifier here being, like a 12th Colony human. Who is to say if the 12 Colonies humans are human at all, and are simply advanced versions themselves of a variety of Cylon that was seeded thousands of years before the Earth Colony? Mindbending, eh?
Back to Dee, Lee's ex-wife and competent bridge crew member. She finds a locket and jacks buried under the sand on the beach (formerly a city). Although I think that much of her death was caused by the hopelessness of finding NOTHING alive on the planet, just like Kobol, I think perhaps there was something a bit more there. We got inside the heads of Tigh, the Chief (eerie, seeing his own shadow burned into rock-how did that survive that many centuries?) and Anders. I've a thought that Dee WAS remembering something just like the acknowledged Five Cylons were. But not in the same way nor with the same intensity. Or, she was just sad as hell over all the destroyed lives there on Earth, on Kobol, and her home and the other colonies. That's a deep emotional hole to crawl out of, and she couldn't..
Tigh is an odd one. He remembers, as Tyrol did, what he was doing as the bomb hit his home. He was an earlier incarnation of himself, with an earlier incarnation of Ellen, his wife. And he sees her telling him that they'll be reborn over and over again.
So, what it is about Ellen Tigh? Is what made her so desperate to feel like she's alive by fucking everyone around her, both literally and figuratively when she was alive in this round of existence is that *she somehow knew* on some level (as Adama carelessly said in a different way to Tigh, about Tigh himself and *not Ellen*) that she was a Cylon and she was reliving everything all over again?
It's interesting that D'Anna has given up. She's become aware, in some fashion, of the circular fate that everyone in the fleet is assigned to, and wants off the carousel. But there is no getting off this carousel until somehow the cycle is broken-but first, the cycle has to be figured out.
I'll have to get some other work done before I can think cohesively on what precisely I think the cycle is (it shouldn't be *that* hard) but this show is written, on the whole, by decent writers who had a call to *finish their storyline* when they got word there was a definite end-date. What that comes down to, there are only so many ways to twist the space-time continuum (which is what I think happened with Starbuck, we only don't know how it was accomplished) and so, although the story isn't readily transparent yet, and lies under several layers of fog, there are only so many tricks in the book. We'll see. I do like how the twists are twisting, though. And I'm glad answers are forthcoming along the way, the way Moore said they'd be ended..
And that's it for now. Any opinons on what you think is going on?
This is all winging out of my head as I drink my morning coffee before I correct my homework and send it in.
The set-up: Starbuck finds her body still in its Viper shell, burned almost beyond recognition, but with medallions and dogtags to prove that it's her body. She sets it on a funeral pyre, and hesitates telling Apollo about it when she finally meets up with him at the end of the episode.
Dee and several others find evidence of thousands and millions of skeletons as well as the remains of a Cylon Centurian of a design which is not familiar to any of them, Cylon or human alike. Further revelations show that NONE of the skeletons found are of the variety known as *human*--the qualifier here being, like a 12th Colony human. Who is to say if the 12 Colonies humans are human at all, and are simply advanced versions themselves of a variety of Cylon that was seeded thousands of years before the Earth Colony? Mindbending, eh?
Back to Dee, Lee's ex-wife and competent bridge crew member. She finds a locket and jacks buried under the sand on the beach (formerly a city). Although I think that much of her death was caused by the hopelessness of finding NOTHING alive on the planet, just like Kobol, I think perhaps there was something a bit more there. We got inside the heads of Tigh, the Chief (eerie, seeing his own shadow burned into rock-how did that survive that many centuries?) and Anders. I've a thought that Dee WAS remembering something just like the acknowledged Five Cylons were. But not in the same way nor with the same intensity. Or, she was just sad as hell over all the destroyed lives there on Earth, on Kobol, and her home and the other colonies. That's a deep emotional hole to crawl out of, and she couldn't..
Tigh is an odd one. He remembers, as Tyrol did, what he was doing as the bomb hit his home. He was an earlier incarnation of himself, with an earlier incarnation of Ellen, his wife. And he sees her telling him that they'll be reborn over and over again.
So, what it is about Ellen Tigh? Is what made her so desperate to feel like she's alive by fucking everyone around her, both literally and figuratively when she was alive in this round of existence is that *she somehow knew* on some level (as Adama carelessly said in a different way to Tigh, about Tigh himself and *not Ellen*) that she was a Cylon and she was reliving everything all over again?
It's interesting that D'Anna has given up. She's become aware, in some fashion, of the circular fate that everyone in the fleet is assigned to, and wants off the carousel. But there is no getting off this carousel until somehow the cycle is broken-but first, the cycle has to be figured out.
I'll have to get some other work done before I can think cohesively on what precisely I think the cycle is (it shouldn't be *that* hard) but this show is written, on the whole, by decent writers who had a call to *finish their storyline* when they got word there was a definite end-date. What that comes down to, there are only so many ways to twist the space-time continuum (which is what I think happened with Starbuck, we only don't know how it was accomplished) and so, although the story isn't readily transparent yet, and lies under several layers of fog, there are only so many tricks in the book. We'll see. I do like how the twists are twisting, though. And I'm glad answers are forthcoming along the way, the way Moore said they'd be ended..
And that's it for now. Any opinons on what you think is going on?
