Vid Rec: Sons and Daughters
So, children, go now to watch Sons and Daughters, a fabulous Cylon POV vid from heyiya.
It's a brilliant examination of the violent, disturbing evolutionary path the Cylon walk, while managing to still brilliantly capture a sense of boundless hope, optimism and just plain inability to understand committing speciescide, snapping the necks of babies and locking women up in baby factories ain't always such a great thing to do.
The tension between their at times horrific actions and their genuine, and at times innocent and naive, desire to learn, grow and be good beings, is excellent.
Plus in this instance, the vid does all sorts of entertaining meta-tastic stuff about Cylon evolution - both literal and in terms of storyarc and characterisation - and reproduction. And how in both those cases it's pretty much literally technological evolution and utterly different to ours.
So yeah, it's great! Go watch it! Yay!
It's a brilliant examination of the violent, disturbing evolutionary path the Cylon walk, while managing to still brilliantly capture a sense of boundless hope, optimism and just plain inability to understand committing speciescide, snapping the necks of babies and locking women up in baby factories ain't always such a great thing to do.
The tension between their at times horrific actions and their genuine, and at times innocent and naive, desire to learn, grow and be good beings, is excellent.
Plus in this instance, the vid does all sorts of entertaining meta-tastic stuff about Cylon evolution - both literal and in terms of storyarc and characterisation - and reproduction. And how in both those cases it's pretty much literally technological evolution and utterly different to ours.
So yeah, it's great! Go watch it! Yay!