Guess who caught up with her television?
Nov. 20th, 2006 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenI watch last Friday's Battlestar Galactica and was hurting for poor Daddy Adama at the same time as I was blown away, yet again, by just how awesome Laura Roslin is. When you think she's at her most cunning, most evisceratingly awesome, she manages to one-up your expectations. It's beyond description how powerful and controlled Mary McDonell's performance is. She makes an award a punishment, and you believe it. Wow.
The rest of the plot, meh. I am glad that they didn't make Bulldog a Cylon, as that would both ruin the five remaining model question and make yet another new entry into the robot, which they've done well before, but I'm through with, thanks (D'Anna and Cavil were brilliant, don't get me wrong, but you can't do it every time and still have dramatic tension). I don't buy Adama feeling like the attacks were his fault for what he did, though I do buy his feeling guilty for shooting down his own man. How weird was it that he and Lee are at this point in their relationship after all their shit that Lee is feeling so badly for his dad that he makes excuses for him? That's fucked up right there.
Speaking of fucked up, D'Anna-Three is officially the newest, craziest Cylon ever. Not only did she have sex with Baltar and Caprica, but she is the second Cylon to have committed suicide (and the only one to do so and regenerate, Gina having perished far from a resurrection ship). That's significant. The sin of suicide was sacred to Gina after all but her faith was stripped from her, so I have to believe that D'Anna getting the centurion to put a bullet through her head is going to wake some powerful shit amongst the skin jobs. She started it with her words in the resurrection bath, babbling about the beauty between life and death (and, wow, she's in Baltar's crazy opera house in her dreams--is his crazy an STD or what?).
But think of the sins of rejection of God's will that each of the individualized Cylons have introduced. Boomer introduced the sin of verbal, spiritual rejection of God in her defiance of Cylon mindset, her determination to remain earthly in her desires and feelings. Caprica commits the sin of murder, the destruction of what is God's creation. Three combines the two into a double sacrilege whilst causing the not-completely-sentient centurion to sin as well. Den of iniquity, that basestar. Also? The courage of Three--bravery beyond what we'd seen from any Cylon so far. She chose death, decided upon it as an experiment. She accepted the very real possibility of pain upon pain, as Cavil had experienced after his third regeneration, accepted that the dissociation might be made greater with her shuffling the mortal coil and all that.
This way--sin--is the means to finally introducing a measure of "humanity" (loosely defined here as an understanding of individuality, loyalty to fellow creatures, and free will) to the Cylon. It allows them to be different, really and truly, because the experiences of Boomer, Caprica, and D'Anna are different enough that they won't translate over a download to the point where they could share with all the eights, sixes, and threes. "If you had ever experienced love," Caprica says, and, of course, Three had not and could not understand. Until more is described about the sharing of memories among the individual characters in each model class, I'd hazard a guess that none can experience exactly what his brother or her sister does without going through the same for his/herself. Which would mean that however many separate units can be carved out of each model class, that many will have to go through insanity or love (or are those terms redundant?) before the whole of the Cylon can change and become Cylons. End meta.
Only real nitpick, aside from the fact that the main story was less interesting than the shit going down between Bill and Saul (or Starbuck and Tigh--best friends foh-evahs!)? Roslin taking Helo's hand at the ceremony. Man, she's classy. I'd be kicking his stupid ass in the shins.
The rest of the plot, meh. I am glad that they didn't make Bulldog a Cylon, as that would both ruin the five remaining model question and make yet another new entry into the robot, which they've done well before, but I'm through with, thanks (D'Anna and Cavil were brilliant, don't get me wrong, but you can't do it every time and still have dramatic tension). I don't buy Adama feeling like the attacks were his fault for what he did, though I do buy his feeling guilty for shooting down his own man. How weird was it that he and Lee are at this point in their relationship after all their shit that Lee is feeling so badly for his dad that he makes excuses for him? That's fucked up right there.
Speaking of fucked up, D'Anna-Three is officially the newest, craziest Cylon ever. Not only did she have sex with Baltar and Caprica, but she is the second Cylon to have committed suicide (and the only one to do so and regenerate, Gina having perished far from a resurrection ship). That's significant. The sin of suicide was sacred to Gina after all but her faith was stripped from her, so I have to believe that D'Anna getting the centurion to put a bullet through her head is going to wake some powerful shit amongst the skin jobs. She started it with her words in the resurrection bath, babbling about the beauty between life and death (and, wow, she's in Baltar's crazy opera house in her dreams--is his crazy an STD or what?).
But think of the sins of rejection of God's will that each of the individualized Cylons have introduced. Boomer introduced the sin of verbal, spiritual rejection of God in her defiance of Cylon mindset, her determination to remain earthly in her desires and feelings. Caprica commits the sin of murder, the destruction of what is God's creation. Three combines the two into a double sacrilege whilst causing the not-completely-sentient centurion to sin as well. Den of iniquity, that basestar. Also? The courage of Three--bravery beyond what we'd seen from any Cylon so far. She chose death, decided upon it as an experiment. She accepted the very real possibility of pain upon pain, as Cavil had experienced after his third regeneration, accepted that the dissociation might be made greater with her shuffling the mortal coil and all that.
This way--sin--is the means to finally introducing a measure of "humanity" (loosely defined here as an understanding of individuality, loyalty to fellow creatures, and free will) to the Cylon. It allows them to be different, really and truly, because the experiences of Boomer, Caprica, and D'Anna are different enough that they won't translate over a download to the point where they could share with all the eights, sixes, and threes. "If you had ever experienced love," Caprica says, and, of course, Three had not and could not understand. Until more is described about the sharing of memories among the individual characters in each model class, I'd hazard a guess that none can experience exactly what his brother or her sister does without going through the same for his/herself. Which would mean that however many separate units can be carved out of each model class, that many will have to go through insanity or love (or are those terms redundant?) before the whole of the Cylon can change and become Cylons. End meta.
Only real nitpick, aside from the fact that the main story was less interesting than the shit going down between Bill and Saul (or Starbuck and Tigh--best friends foh-evahs!)? Roslin taking Helo's hand at the ceremony. Man, she's classy. I'd be kicking his stupid ass in the shins.
