Battlestar Galactica 4.06 Faith
I haven't been talking about it. I've been afraid to do so. But I've been really struggling with Battlestar this season. If you're feeling the love, you probably want to skip by this post.
( cut for discussion of 'Faith' and general Season 4 issues )
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That's really interesting: the individual Cylons worked on you! They were SO the wrong people to pick for me!! I don't care about any of them. I'd happily kill them all off. I'd find some of their deaths moving but I would be fine with them dying as part of the end of the show. And I think I am THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THIS WAY.
The only ones I sort of care about are Caprica and Athena, and I could live with them being sacrificed if it had to come to that.
I don't think it's psychologically or emotionally real to think that the HUMANS could forget and forgive the genocide in such a short span of time as the show's
It's not.
I fear that RDM is heading towards some kind of Cylon-Human Reconciliation. That stuff takes DECADES and is never truly resolved in the first generation of survivors, IMO.He is ( ... )
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As for Caprica and Athena, I can certainly tolerate them, and I appreciate that they have, as individuals, changed, but I still don’t really care that much for either of them, and would also happily sacrifice them too :P
Yup, same. At the same time, I'd be fine with the humans coming to fully accept them as individuals. But it's the process of generalising from the individuals to the collective that worries me (but I think you fully understand that).
am trying hard to think of real-world examples where this happened in the span of a few yearsRwanda is the main situation I can think of. There are some war trials, I know, but not that many people have been convicted and people who carried out the attrocities are definitely living side by side with those who were the victims--many of the perpetrators who initially fled the country have returned. I don't honestly know how successful reconciliation is there, but I know it's a necessity ( ... )
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Exactly! That's why I'm going to find a rosy reconciliation very difficult to swallow and the alternative realistic scenario of them living a cold and endangered life together heartbreaking.
the onus seems to be on the humans to recognize Cylon individuality, whereas the Cylons didn't even TRY to recognize that individual humans were not guilty of ANYTHING until after the genocide was overIt's true. I can see that the argument is that they were too 'young' to understand that. But if Six supposedly feels compassion for that baby, then that doesn't work for me. (Though omg, I still find her action totally chilling and not compassionate at all ( ... )
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