Before BSG returns on Sunday night (cuz SciFi apparently wants to have Jake 2.0 hold the Friday line...?) this weekend, I wanted to get some of my random zany thoughts out of my head and on screen.
Sunday night BSG. Damn. That's when the original show premiered on TV. I was over at someone else's house, our family was, for a dinner party, and all the kids, or at least, all the boys, were gathered around the telly to watch the pretty cloud tank or whatever slide show, voiced over by Patrick McNee, explaining how "even now, there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive…somewhere beyond the heavens…"
Things were so simple back then.
I love the Cylon "mood" or "skin" they put on the show whenever we're focused on Baltar and the Cylons (band name, anyone?). It's so... porny! A porny PHANTOM OF THE OPERA... or an episode of "The Continental," or... Masterpiece Theater, but without pants! Like an artsy late night Cinemax flick, y'know? EMMANUELLE IN SPACE... volume 6... or something... You've got the moving camera and the cross fades, if only there was a candelabra and a grand piano or pipe organ. Baltar could be hosting creature double feature!
Wait, was there a candelabra?
It's just such a funny but sorta-right feeling atmosphere for "my life with the Cylons." I suppose given that it's thru Baltar's eyes/over Baltar's shoulder, the porniness does logically figure in. I mean, half the episodes since they left New Caprica have introduced Baltar getting out of bed with Xena or Caprica, right?
Although I've heard it from several fans of the show that it doesn't really matter whether Baltar's a Cylon or not—and I believed that for a while, cuz, his actions are what matter to everyone else—I just LOVE watching this guy so much, and it certainly matters to HIM, so I do give a damn. =)
I don't love the projection thing as some remarkable Cylon ability, but I'll buy it. Maybe we'll get an episode in the future that's all or partly from Athena's or Boomer's point of view for some good reason, and we could get some immersive take on what kind of advantages there are to it. Does Athena get to walk around in a projected environment whenever she wants? Or is she somehow cut off?
Ever since I played Quake, I've had an idea for some game tech that resembles projection, and have just been itching/waiting for it to be developed. Maybe Apple + Nintendo will figure it out.
Projection as a sort of explanation for Baltar's "happy place" with his Number Six is acceptable. I wonder what happened to Caprica's Jiminy Baltar?
In general, I'm annoyed that in a year and change, Boomer and Caprica have sort of dropped spearheading the cause of living with or live and let live with the humans. That year gone by can explain it away, I suppose, but I *really* liked the Cylon revolution and the notion and power of celebrities among the Cylons... I wanted to see it played out longer and further. The dissension that we regularly see among the Cylons now *is* a good follow-thru, but there no longer seem to be any true human-lovers, y'know?
WTF with having Honeybunny show up as an oracle on New Caprica to direct Xena to the baby? The only way I'm gonna be okay with that later is if she's one of the Cylon Five. She overtly demonstrates extrasensory abilites, and not just seeing into the affairs of humans, but Cylons as well. She's got to be Something More.
When she appeared and said what she said, did what she did, that felt like writers looking for a shortcut, a way to make something happen, but, like I said, it can be saved if she turns up again. The writers are frickin Good after all. I mean, they even got me to like Kat! Adama gets all the best lines... "While you were CAG, you made your people feel safe enough to be brave..." That's, like, the most perfect thing to say to a leader of soldiers, no?
Xena's turned herself into a Cylon Lifetime movie. "I Resurrect Myself To Feel." Or, as Baltar so eloquently put it, "Death Is Just A Revolving Door."
I wonder if the original organic Cylon, or proto-organic one, I guess, the one who created the skin jobs, also programmed Spanish television. I mean, look at the seven models we've seen. Three hot women and four inconspicuous guys, one of whom, if he wasn't Dean Stockwell, could be a troll. You could mix and match them as partners for a dozen different Telemundo variety and talk shows!
And speaking of Cylon programming, I would LOVE to see the Cylons try some absurd psyOps on the humans by broadcasting the reality channel, BaltarTV, at the fleet. Imaginary Number Six, human-Cylon identity crisis, wacky hijinks, and THREE'S COMPANY!
I'm simultaneously miffed and intrigued by Starbuck's take on marriage. She and Apollo have got a little somethin somethin goin on in a regular way, regular enough for Apollo to feel guilty about it at least, and when he brings up the option of going legit, divorcing their partners so that they can be together, Starbuck won't have it. Something about how, "This isn't a Pyramid game. Marriage is a sacrament." Kooky. Just an episode before, she gave Kat a vial of sleeping pills. She's okay with suicide/euthanasia, but divorce would offend the Gods. Proof that we ARE related to the humans of the rag tag fugitive fleet? =)
What up with the gods, anyhow? Who's worshipping what now? Is there more than one religion among the humans? Or is it the gods of Kobol or nothing?
When Baltar connects with the hybrid, coaxing her to clue D'anna and himself into the "eye of the husband," aka the Eye of Jupiter, and also the hand, which according to Baltar represents the Five, D'anna is struck by the possibility that "our gods" could be connected to "their gods." So she's talking about the Cylons having gods of their own, different from the humans'. Are the Five the gods she's speaking of? Do all of the seven Cylons consider them to be their gods?
So how and why is it we have the idea that the Cylons are monotheistic? It's only Baltar and his Jiminy Six who talk about a one true god, right? His Six has been proselytizing in his head. I can't remember any physical skin jobs explicitly talking about their one god... but dammit, I could swear it was a logical conclusion...
I'll hafta pay more attention moving forward...
Eye of Jupiter. Humans and Cylons in orbit over a planet with a site, temple, and artifact that both have come to consider holy and believe they have a claim to. The two sides are ready to destroy one another, and the site itself, before they'll let the other keep it. One side is ready and apparently willing to unleash its nuclear capabilities.
Don't you just love science fiction? Such a great way to escape reality. =)
Do we think they'll reach earth?
The basics to one possible unsophisticated no-brainer "happy" ending... The Galactica gets to earth just before the time of ancient/classical civilizations, and with their superior tech, are taken for pantheons of gods. The Greeks, of course, but I'm guessing that the Egyptians and Mayans and Aztecs and Toltecs and whoever else wants a god, just like in the original series intro. Maybe the Cylons, or some worse-than-Cylon threat, follows and they save earth humans in some last great battle that wipes out almost all their tech and the survivors, human and Cylon, walk the earth side by side w the natives.
D'Anna will of course close the infinite loop of her life and begin her reign of terror on ancient Greek territories as Xena, Warrior Princess...
=)
And once he survives into the 21st century, Preacher Cavil will become holographic guide to Cylon tech time machine developer Captain Archer...
... or Something.
It's late. I'm talkin crazy talk.
Keep on keepn on~
1 comment:
God, there's so much to comment on here, I just can't start...
I will say, that your Dean Stockwell line KILLED!
I'm a bit annoyed by the Starbuck/Apollo thread also, but mainly because I just don't care about the two of them getting together. I don't feel any vested interest in them being a couple.
And I'd watch Baltar TV. All the time.
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