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"I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear x-rays and I want to... I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly, because I have to... I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limited spoken language. But I know I want to reach out with something other than these... prehensile paws... and feel the solar wind of a Supernova flowing over me. I'm a machine! And I could know so much more, I could experience so much more, but I'm trapped in this absurd body. And WHY? Because my Five Creators thought that "God" want it that way..."
Amazing monologues this espisode...
Keith, you summary seems about right, but I contest two minor points:
1-It's not clear if the Lords of Kobol created Centurions of if they went straight to skinjobs (who could then created Centurions by themselves... though, the similarity in design does point to them being created by people of similar biology and psicology, i.e. "humans")
2- Maybe the Earth the Ancient Cylons inhabited was not the acutal Earth. We did not see any shot from the sky showing recognizable continental lines, except for Starbuck's vision, which could have been a different planet.
The fact there is a third party influencing everybody seems pretty much incontestable now, thoug who and what it is remains open. The easy, lasy answer, scifi-wise, would be "God did it", but since they have been hinting at it from Season One, I'd guess it's propably not it. Maybe it is the Lords of Kobol, who after parting ways with their Cylons, evolved into the "angels" who live in the Ship of Ligths, or something similar.
I'm pretty sure everybody is going to die trying, and failing, to discover who is it after all, except maybe for a man and a woman, naked by a tree at the end of the final chapter... But not before the humans and cylons engage for a little while in some very incest-like crossbreeding, leading to a part-machine, part-biological new species.
And they finally explained away the lack of a 7..., using this oversight from early in the series - before the concept of the Final Five was created - to paint the leader of the Genocidal Cylons, the 1, John Cavil, as a narcisitic, oedipian, fraticidal creep from the get-go. A character fully and almost solely motivated by self-loathing makes for a fraking awsome villain. (plus, it finally explained why he mindfraked Chief back when he pretended to be a pastor and Chief was having "dreams about being a Cylon") |
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