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[trinityvixen]

Bottom line, Ron Moore doesn't have any. (Spoilers for the series finale.)

Yeah, that's about what I thought. I knew no matter how I tried to wank-understand what the shit just happened, it wasn't going to work because the man and his team are just pathologically opposed to making sense.

Comments

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Did I miss your post on the Watchmen? I loved it so much I almost needed a cold shower afterwards XD and want to read your views on it :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Nope, you didn't miss it. I haven't gotten to it yet. BSG stuff has kind of dominated (in case you missed that, heh).Glad you liked it, though.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

So the answer is... "whatever"?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Your cool ideas are all so cool, he can't possibly decide which one he wants to steal so he'll just end ambiguously so you can believe in all of them! (Except the Starbuck-is-half-Cylon one because he definitely said no way, Jose.)

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the actual SHOW that I watched said something different. Fuck authorial intent! :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I agree. Dude, I'm posting where the show went wrong this season and how it could have been better. #1 is Starbuck-the-hylon is better than Starbuck-the-whatever-you-need-her-to-be-so-you're-not-mad-at-us bullshit.

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who was bugged about how it turned out Hera was completely unimportant?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

She was important. She's the first of the new race. No, she's totally important. Shut up!

Sigh.

[negativeq.livejournal.com]

Everyone was unimportant.

All that mattered was that they manage to reproduce, then die before they take up precious resources. Hera's value was that she was proof of concept, then she popped out at least one offspring before she croaked. Gotta pass on those 8/Agathon genes!

So ... important as far as biology is concerned?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what to say here. It sounds like you're mistaking the theory of "mitochondrial Eve." I'm a little fuzzy on it myself. Essentially, the argument is that she is the earliest (meaning oldest) version of some genetically comparable arrangement to modern humanity. I take that to mean, given that the Cylons were 2-to-1 female to male, most of the babies born half-and-half would have Cylon mitochondria. Which is why Hera would be the Eve--the first to have those and the human traits that make her similar to present-day human/Cylon people. So she is important so far as being a pathfinder, even though it is safe to assume she was far from the last half-Cylon, half-human child.

The "Hera is important" meme is still valid in that reading. However, as I said on your blog, it would have been MUCH more important to look to Hera as the shape of things to come had humanity and Cylons depended upon her as the model for their mutual society that was aware of the difference she represented far into the future. That is not what we got. What we got was a chain of descendants who have no idea that they're part robot. As such, they have no idea that building robots more and more "human"-like is a troublesome development. I think that's bullshit. Hera would have been much more important for the fact that humans and Cylons both remember her as the first to mix their species and create the new future if they were still aware of it. Instead, she's nothing more than a blip on the evolutionary radar, her spiritual/emotional significance long lost to time. This is what happens when you destroy your history along with your tech...