April 22nd 2008 07:30 am
Battlestar Galatica - have we gone the full circle?
Ties that Bind, I’ll say. I have to admit (quite publicly and with my reputation of a snarky cow at risk) that I can be quite a wimp. I know given the quality of some of the programs that are out there in the ether we should be immune to people making fools of themselves, however I have to admit I sometimes have to close my eyes shut. I simply cannot watch. The same applies to the any given violent scene I deem unwatchable.
And I admit I could not watch Tory unleash her wrath on poor Callie. There is a line in Bridget Jones that I find quite appropriate here and I paraphrase “We are in touch with our inner b*tch we just haven’t unleashed it”. I think Tory is fully embracing and unleashing her inner Cylon bitch. But I digress.
With Ties That Bind behind us and all the latest twists and turns in the plot spread out, it got me thinking. Remember the first ever episode of the first ever season? 33? When Cylons attacked the fleet every 33 minutes and every single human was on the brink of madness and pure exhaustion. Baltar was having his imaginary conversations with Six and he said something along the lines Cylons never get tired they’ll just keep on coming after us again and again and again. A scene of utter desperation and hopelessness if I ever saw one.
With the Cylon war imminent it seems to me the underlying plot of BSG has gone the full circle. Sure Cylons look like humans, talk like humans, even have sex as humans (if you ignore the spine that lights up) but in the end (and all their God-talk aside) they are machines. Aren’t they?
The main reason for their attack on humans was the humans have turned on each other and used and abused their own creations. And now the same Cylons are turning on each other quoting noble reasons and other whatnots. Am I the only one that finds that ironic? And very human-like?
Maybe they have just been around humans for too long and that messed up their hard-drive. Be as it may, I for one am curious to see how all of this will end up.
2 Comments »
M on 23 Apr 2008 at 9:50 pm #
I find Leoben’s insistence that it all has happened before and that it all will happen again intriguing. I’m looking forward to finding out in more concrete ways what this means within the context of this show.
bertas on 26 Apr 2008 at 3:04 am #
Hm yes I remember that scene actually… but I dont know at the time I thought he was actually trying to mess with Starbuck more then anything else…