Annals of lame
Thank you all for the birthday wishes, and thanks to kernezelda and simplystars for the virtual gifts! I had a good birthday this year, and in the spirit of continuing to find a better work/life balance by not losing unused vacation time, I even took Monday off. The weather was beautiful, and I loafed around the city and marveled, as always, at how many people in
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I've been thinking about the similarities between TSCC and BSG and how those similarities really are different. Watching Cameron trying to process how humans deal with and cope with death, in this time period, takes me back to Six snapping the baby's neck in the mini series. Cameron is advocating murdering humans, even if the possibility exists that they have nothing to do with what is to come, in order to try to save the human race. She doesn't really care about he survival of humanity, it's simply her job to help protect it. There are no feelings, at least at this point, involved. Contrast that with Six who in doing her job is about to play a role in the near obliteration of humanity, yet she kills that baby to spare him the suffering of possibly living in a post-apocalyptic world. She obviously feels something. Is it programming or is it all that time spent with humans? Can Cameron learn to feel? Does she want to?
Derek has the potential to be a very interesting character. He's from Kyle's era, one in which terminators were the enemy, period. They grew up fearing the machines and had a goal to help John destroy them all. Now Derek has to deal with yet another new reality, one in which those same machines can be a valuable ally.
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Do NOT tempt me.
She doesn't really care about he survival of humanity, it's simply her job to help protect it. There are no feelings, at least at this point, involved. Contrast that with Six who in doing her job is about to play a role in the near obliteration of humanity, yet she kills that baby to spare him the suffering of possibly living in a post-apocalyptic world.
I think the difference is that the Cylons view themselves as the replacement for humanity, the next evolution, in a spiritual sense. They're capable of spirituality, which is something the mechanical robots of this universe could not comprehend, because it has no utility.
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