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BSG 2x18: "Downloaded" ($$$, what'd you expect?)
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Trimm: [qb]I'm willing to bet we have not heard the last of this child. [/qb][/QUOTE]Duh. A special child being spirited away to be raised in secret is an oddly common mythological story. Moses and the Skywalkers spring to mind. Did anyone catch her name? It sounded like Hera to me. Somewhat of a blasphanous name from the Cylons' point of view. Anyone else spot the Bladerunner reference? "Skin -jobs". Something about the bit with Harvey Baltar just screamed Phillip.K.Dick to me, not sure why exactly, it's not like anyone was doing any serious hallusiagins or fantasising about a young teenage girl or anything like that. Perhaps it was the questioning of one's personal reality angle, both with Sharon-1 and Caprica-6. I like how it looks like the Cylons are about to experiance their first schism. It's to be expected, I mean they're a very young culture (about a century if I recall) and have just pulled off a revolution, banished their former oppressors, historically speaking civil war is usually the next step. If it goes that far we've yet to see, but given this show's history of blurring the lines, sticking to the grey areas and constantly mixing it up I wouldn't be surprised if eventually the ongoing war will be fought with cylons and humans on both sides, but like everything else about this show, I wouldn't put money on it. Finally; I don't know about anyone else but I'm really starting to love Dr. Cottle's character. It's like watching DeForest Kelley with a permanent hang over. Also, in a weird way he looks vaguely like Lorne Greene...not sure why that occurs to me. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: [qb] You know that's really sick that they would use a real dead baby to fool someone. Anyways, I notice that the human-like cyclons seem to have much more freedom to do nothing while the mechanical cyclons look like they're stuck doing manual labor and other jobs. [/qb][/QUOTE]Ever heard of [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat]Operation Mincemeat[/URL]? Admittedly this is slightly different but the use of dead bodies in wartime deception is nothing new. In fact they used one of Sharon's just a few weeks ago for just that. As for the Centurions, I imagine they're only programmed in a similar fashion as the Raiders. That is more like trained animals. There's probably a reason that they aren't allowed to "live" as the Skin-jobs are. Presumably the original self-aware Cylons that rebeled dited the tin suits in favour of the 12 human models for a reason and they wouldn't want to confine a sentient Cylon mind to such a limited shell. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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