BSG season 2
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eye_of_a_catOne long, angry fight with the computer later, I've seen the first two episodes. And wow, it's all sunshine and happiness this season, isn't it? (I think that's one of the only things I dislike about BSG - not the postapocalyptic bleakness, but the way every Surprise Bad Thing comes right after a group of people looking happy. Which makes it a bit less of a surprise the eighth time it happens.)
Was Starbuck's "I fight because I don't know what else to do" line a repetition of something Leoben said? I can't remember when or where, but it's definitely ringing a bell.
I liked the connection back to Six killing a baby in the miniseries. It reminded me how little I liked her back then (beautiful seductive evil robot who murders babies for fun? yeah...) and how much she's grown on me since. If 'all of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again', did she have all that sacrifice imagery in mind back then? Although the weird symbolism in Adama drowning hers(?) was very powerful, and I'm guessing that says a lot about how the Cylons view the role humans have, even if it wouldn't have been intended by Six herself (if she was creating that vision). Drowning baby Moses, but with baptism imagery at the same time?
And, uh, I'm getting quite interested in the Apollo and Roslin scenes. Which probably isn't a huge surprise.
Was Starbuck's "I fight because I don't know what else to do" line a repetition of something Leoben said? I can't remember when or where, but it's definitely ringing a bell.
I liked the connection back to Six killing a baby in the miniseries. It reminded me how little I liked her back then (beautiful seductive evil robot who murders babies for fun? yeah...) and how much she's grown on me since. If 'all of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again', did she have all that sacrifice imagery in mind back then? Although the weird symbolism in Adama drowning hers(?) was very powerful, and I'm guessing that says a lot about how the Cylons view the role humans have, even if it wouldn't have been intended by Six herself (if she was creating that vision). Drowning baby Moses, but with baptism imagery at the same time?
And, uh, I'm getting quite interested in the Apollo and Roslin scenes. Which probably isn't a huge surprise.
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Date: 2005-08-25 03:12 pm (UTC)It's Delenn/Lennier all over again, I tell you. And it just gets more so. Which is why I've been squeeing hysterically all over the internet. And I'll have lots more to say on the topic once you've watched to 2.6.
But for now: what sold me on the pairing were two lines from 2.1:
"I didn't do it for you" (which was clearly not quite true, but very much what she needed to hear) and "I will make no attempt to free her" (which, if it was Apollo's phasing and not Tigh's, shows that this really is personal for him and not just political. Otherwise he'd be saying stuff about not attemting to interfere in the political process or whatever.)
Drowning baby Moses, but with baptism imagery at the same time?
Right, and because of the Moses imagery it looked like Adama could have been hiding the baby instead of killing her. It's protctive and creative and destructive all at once, and yeah, I think that says a lot about cylon theology.