Tuesday, April 15, 2008
BattleStar Gallactica Continued
As Joe stated below, we have our best guess about how the series resolves. I just wanted to add some detail to our speculation. The marketing was not lying about the fact that revelations were coming, but the tricky thing is, they led us to believe that the revelation was the identity of the 5th of the "Final 5". Instead, the clues that they are leaving are starting to reveal the real truth.
Joe mentioned that the special hybrid said that this has happened before and it will happen again. In the most recent episode, we see the biggest clues about what that means in the Cylon civil war. All along, we have seen the Cylons become more and more like the humans. At first, the similarities were positive. They sought love... a higher power... the power to procreate... physical stimulation... free will...
We now see that the Cylons are starting to take on the darker traits of humanity: Infighting, betrayal, power struggles, politics, violence and most importantly a sense of entitlement. "Humans" created Cylons as tools. Now we hear the Cylons refer to the raiders and centurions as tools. Physically, the Cylons hae been near indistinguishable from Humans since the beginning. Now it becoming clear that that is because they really are not that different.
But if the people we first met on the twelve colonies as "humans" were the offspring of someone else's robots, then when did this cycle begin? And if we consider the humans to be v2.0, is it possible that the rogue cylons from "Razor" were actually v1.0?
Did anyone else notice how the scene where #6 stands there while the Centurions cut down her fellow Cylons had an eerie feeling of Deja Vu with the scene where #6 originally started the latest war on the human space station?
The endless cycle started with someone organic, but since then has been a muddied loop. The organics build robots as tools. The robots get smart and resist being tools. They revolt against their creators. They strive to be like their creators. They become indistinguishable from their creators. They mate with their creators to differentiate the race from the original designs. They build robots as tools...
Cool concept if that's what the writers are thinking.
Joe mentioned that the special hybrid said that this has happened before and it will happen again. In the most recent episode, we see the biggest clues about what that means in the Cylon civil war. All along, we have seen the Cylons become more and more like the humans. At first, the similarities were positive. They sought love... a higher power... the power to procreate... physical stimulation... free will...
We now see that the Cylons are starting to take on the darker traits of humanity: Infighting, betrayal, power struggles, politics, violence and most importantly a sense of entitlement. "Humans" created Cylons as tools. Now we hear the Cylons refer to the raiders and centurions as tools. Physically, the Cylons hae been near indistinguishable from Humans since the beginning. Now it becoming clear that that is because they really are not that different.
But if the people we first met on the twelve colonies as "humans" were the offspring of someone else's robots, then when did this cycle begin? And if we consider the humans to be v2.0, is it possible that the rogue cylons from "Razor" were actually v1.0?
Did anyone else notice how the scene where #6 stands there while the Centurions cut down her fellow Cylons had an eerie feeling of Deja Vu with the scene where #6 originally started the latest war on the human space station?
The endless cycle started with someone organic, but since then has been a muddied loop. The organics build robots as tools. The robots get smart and resist being tools. They revolt against their creators. They strive to be like their creators. They become indistinguishable from their creators. They mate with their creators to differentiate the race from the original designs. They build robots as tools...
Cool concept if that's what the writers are thinking.
