Cylon consciousness is based on projection

[trinityvixen]

I don't even have a strong opinion about the 4.5 BSG premiere. I had one shock, which I'm sure people can guess at. Otherwise, I don't...really...care?

And the 5th? I don't buy it. Even if that's what the show thinks, I still don't buy it. I think it's a projection thing. It's probably not, but fuck that. I say it's another one of many, many hallucinations/dreams/visions on this show. I remember being really excited for season four to start. I wasn't even a little rabid about 4.5 starting. With good reason, it seems.

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Re: HERE BE (VAGUE) SPOILERS

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

It would have been nice to, you know, examine that at all.
Though that would have required the writers to have A Plan...

you'd expect Tigh and maybe Adama to remember what Ellen looked like as a younger woman
You'd expect Tigh and Adama to know what Tigh looked like as a younger man, but we've never seen any Cylon age. The Cavells clearly wake up old.... Which is why it doesn't make any sense that Tigh is a Cylon.

Personally, I think (and am most interested with the idea that) everybody is a Cylon. I'm not completely sure how that would work, and what role all the other loose threads have, but I don't know that they're going to be all resolved to my satisfaction -- I think if the massive spoiler-centric-ness of the last ep was any sign to me, it's that I need to just take the show without expectations for any particular Secrets, and instead just enjoy (to the best I can) the unfolding of the remaining drama as it goes.

Re: HERE BE (VAGUE) SPOILERS

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Which is why it doesn't make any sense that Tigh is a Cylon.

Well, if everyone is a Cylon, then it stands to reason that Cylons can, in fact, age. So that doesn't bother as much as some other crap that's going on.