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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]I found the religious Cylons a refreshing change from most shows where the good guys are religious and inevitably triumph against the evil technology by keeping their faith. If the Cylons are as you say taking the ten commandments too far and punishing us for our sins it kind of lends the show a 'we deserved it' quality, which given that the humans will win in 7 years time if we deserved it then we'd be sticking it to God in style by wiping out his armies of righteous vengeance - the Cylons.[/QUOTE]Well that is as they say, a matter of perspective. Just because the Cylons belive it don't make it so. On the other hand, in this story humanity is practially wiped out by it's own failings as much as a cylon military strike, since it was human weekness, in this case Baltar's lust that allowed the Cylons to compromise the defence net. Also it was human complacancy that ignored the Cylon threat after the war and allowed the civilisation to become soft and decadent. Then of course there's the folly of science when the Cylons were originally created to be slaves of mankind. These are all classic themes that are as old as the hills. Good examples are Plato's story of Atlantis, Exodus and Pandora's Box. Another way to interpret this is to say that it's a symbolic battle of reason over superstition, which is shown in microcosm in the form of Baltar's psyche. You might also say that it's about the unthinking, almost automaton nature of religious fanaticism or indeed good old reckless self-righteousness overwhelming freethinking, rationality and objectiveness. [QUOTE]Hope is an incredibly stupid emotioin that blinds humans to the fact that they really are screwed, obviously this is a show about the BSG saving humanity so hope will prevail over mathematics but in the real world hope is BS (sans the 'G') and when you only have around 47k people left in your whole species you ain't got a chance in hell unless you find a real safe planet with no natural predators (and no Cylons chasing you every half an hour) and start screwing like rabits.[/QUOTE]If you loose hope then you really are buggered, since hope is another word for unrelenting persistance. Without hope you just accept the odds, give up and die and serves you right too. In this case it showed that while humanity is falling into the abyss, it is also decelerating. Therein lies the hope that they can decelerate enough to survive long enough to escape extinction. After all hope is a very human thing, possibly the defining difference between humanity and their creations. [QUOTE]P.S. they really need to repaint the MkVII Vipers, I dunno why they weren't red and white like the old MkIIs.[/QUOTE]I seriously doubt the fighters' asthetics are very high on the list of priorities right now. besides from a production standpoint it makes it easier to distinguish between Starbuck and Apollo in the dogfighting scenes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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