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I love this show, and yes, it is because of the bonkers. It's just nuts - not in a David Lynch/Farscape wacko kind of way, but... it's hard to explain, but it comes across as a fairly traditional space opera, but written and directed more in the style of the new wave of harder edged American drama of the last few years. And then something will flip that on its head in one second, something that in another show would be de rigeur, but that in this seems so much more screwed up and odd precisely because it's so unexpected. Like...
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....the jaw-dropping moment in Six Degrees Of Separation when Number Six leaves Bathar after an argument, and then appears on the bridge and everyone can see her. Of course, after a minute it's obvious that she's the duplicate Cylon version, not the madness-version, but for a second I actually thought I was the one going nuts. And about that... having not yet watched all the episodes, has Bathar actually tested himself and proven not to be a Cylon? Because so far the scariest part of the series for me has been the Cylons' callous and strange 'testing' of their own humanoid versions - it's almost like field testing a program or system to prove it can do what it says it can, but run through a dramatic filter that ranges from the emotionally taut (Caprica-Boomer and Helo) to the mindgames played with Galactica-Boomer. It would make sense that Bathar's supposed loopiness is yet another test... and it was never shown in the mini-series how he got from his batchelor pad on the sea to the field where Helo and Boomer were picking up survivors, after that massive nuclear explosion went off only a few klicks away and shattered his windows... |
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