I've been going back on the Sci-Fi Channel website and watching some of the deleted scenes they have for each of the episodes from season one. (Never got around to watching all of them before.) One of them, from "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I" caught my attention -- not for the scene itself, but for the lead-in to the scene.
In a cut pede-conference turned awkward morning-after conversation, the High Priestess of Vague Mysticism (gotta love Television Without Pity!) starts expositioning about why the early Humans left Kobol in the first place and went off to found the Twelve Colonies -- because there was some kind of war about a "jealous god" who demanded to be elevated above the others... or something to that effect. That suggests that this whole Cylon religious thing is somehow tracing its way back through several thousand years of history. It lends more meaning to the phrase "all this has happened before", too. And it kinda makes me wonder about the meaning Six's line about the "end" of the Human race in tonight's episode.
I guess that god really was jealous, huh? Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Or they have no real plan and make it up as they go along...
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
Well, at least they're better at hiding that than that whole chaotic TCW thing in Enterprise.
I've just watched the whole of Season 1, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I quite like the mystical elements in the series as well, especially Gaius Balthar and the humanoid Cylons.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
(Harry, it's Baltar. No "h".) Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
So say we all.
Posted by Mighty Blogger Snay (Member # 411) on :
So maybe the gods are real, and this rogue god said, "Hey, Cylons, I'll be your best buddy if you help me ..."
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