I don't care what you say; they're a family.
You know, I was so proud of myself when I made this icon that I don't think I realized that it's actually two LBJ puns instead of one. CLEVER, HAH HAH, I AM SO CLEVER. Except not at all, no.
The Incredibly Shallow:
"Bill"! "Laura"! "Every day is a gift from the gods" "No, they're a gift from you"! Roslin telling Adama that Billy is sort of neat! The implication that these two actually socialize outside the confines of show canon! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOMANDDADOMGOMGOMG.
CONSTELLATIONS!
Six! as! Starbuck! I nearly fell off the couch.
In conclusion, Helo is a complete moron, and yet, still hot.
The Intensely Intellectual:
Wow, so, that was sort of disappointing.
I don't mean "disappointing" in the sense that I didn't like the arc as a whole - because I did. And not "disappointing" as it applies to the resolution, because superficially re-establishing everyone to their positions post-"Hand of God" was really the only way this arc could end without fundamentally altering the way the show is told (remember Alias after the take-down of SD-6? Yeah).
I guess I found the fulfillment of the Pythian prophecy to be the disappointing part. Because, I don't know, it always seems like the whole point of prophecies in stories is that there's one side that takes it Too Literally (Roslin), one side that thinks it's Bullshit And Completely Untrue (Adama), and at the end we discover that it's a happy medium and neither side is right nor wrong. Instead... by the end of "Home," we find out that everything Roslin believes in is true, that the Arrow of Apollo is an actual arrow that actually opens an actual tomb of Athena and reveals an actual map to Earth (sort of). Call me an atheist, but that... seems way too simple. And easy. And literal. Especially since the Cylons evidentally believe the same thing - that the prophecy is true on its face - despite that other plot line that claims Cylons are trying to understood (and emulate?) complicated social emotions like love.
I just feel REALLY CONFUSED about what the Cylons are trying to do. They blow up a vast majority of human beings, yet save a few to birth their babies. They abhor the Colonial polytheism, yet claim to know more about their scriptures than most humans and are actively trying to fulfill one of its key prophecies. Why do they want to find Earth? Is it just because the Fleet does, and the Cylons want to beat them there? Do they want to destroy Earth, too, thus wiping out all traces of human beings ever? Then why insist of keeping a few to breed, if you can just make infinite copies of the twelve models you already have? Isn't that more efficient?
Unless, that is, unless Cylons want to evolve beyond their present form, though I really don't understand why they just can't do that by drawing more blueprints beyond the first twelve. Actually, you know, that's a really intriguing question - why did the Cylons stop at twelve models? Can they just... draw more, instead of going through the tiring process of sexual reproduction with mostly unwilling and unknowing human women? Because, for all their hatred of their human parents and creators, it seems like the one thing that the Cylons want most is to be like humans. Have love and sex, without the byproducts like hate and all those nasty things that Six told Baltar about on Kobol. Not to mention the polytheism, because wow, talk about evil incarnate.
All right, so maybe I just answered my own question. Whatever.
I thought that the most subtle part of this episode - and yes, I'm about to use Baltar in an example for subtle - was the fact that Six has basically opened the door for knocking Roslin off her place as the leader in the Pythian Prohecy. Because since Six is not in fact a chip in Baltar's head (err?), that means that he's having visions. Visions that are sometimes omniscient, like the time when she warned him that something bad was going to happen on Galactica prior to Adama getting shot and everything going to hell. And as she again points out to him, he was the bearer of the vipers (snakes) when he told them where to shoot in "Hand of God." The piece of scripture that she quotes to him is Though the outcome favored the few, it led to a confrontation at the home of the gods. For the life of me, I can't dissect that. I mean, I can, in the sense that the first part refers to the resolution of "Hand of God," with the few being the Colonials, and that the second part is probably an allusion to Roslin's landing party on Kobol in "Home," but... I seriously feel like I'm grasping at straws with that analysis.
I think that I just really wanted the Arrow of Apollo to not be that actual arrow. But, in conclusion, the map to Earth is contained in the constellation of Scorpio, so I'm going to lay claim to that shout-out right now, if you don't mind.
(I welcome any discussions or clarifications or "Tahlia, you're an idiot, because ______".)
Because this seemed like fun:
For the sake of this argument, I'm starting with a random date.
March 1: Leoben causes trouble, ohnoes. There's a bomb. There isn't a bomb. Adama's a Cylon!
March 4: No, everyone's a Cylon! Ellen! Oh, wait, no. Don't argue in front of the nuclear frakking bomb, please.
March 13: Fleet attacks the Cylons' tillium mining operation and win. Well, that was unexpected.
March 23: Baltar becomes VP. There's a big party. With drinking. The lull before the storm.
March 24: Kobol is discovered!
March 25: But people crash. Laura says, "Take the raider, go get me my toy!" Kara does so. Adama gets pissed. Lee makes mutiny. Roslin gets arrested. Adama gets shot by Boomer. Tigh takes command, panics, jumps away without the rest of the fleet. Gaeta does a Cylon mission makes a computer network, and finds the fleet. Cylons board Galactica. Cylons kill lots of people. Lee saves the day. Tigh drinks a lot. Kara gets the arrow, kills a Six, gets her car jacked, breaks into her own apartment, and finds her other car.
March 26: Tigh makes martial law and still drinks a lot. People get rescued finally from Kobol.
March 27: People don't like the martial law. Lee busts Roslin out of jail. Former Kobol people are maybe Cylons. Sharon gets shot. Adama finally gets up off his ass in sickbay and doesn't seem to mind that Tigh sort of maybe a big mess on the floor. Kara meets a jock.
April 3: Adama returns! Huzzah. Roslin hides in the freezer with a terrorist, a priestess, and Lee. Kara gets her eggs stolen, possibly.
April 4: Kara and Helo and other!Sharon return! Lee is sort of pissed at everyone. They all decide to go to Kobol with other!Sharon. They find the tomb! Adama, too! Roslin is president again! Everyone gets drunk and has sex!
The Incredibly Shallow:
"Bill"! "Laura"! "Every day is a gift from the gods" "No, they're a gift from you"! Roslin telling Adama that Billy is sort of neat! The implication that these two actually socialize outside the confines of show canon! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOMANDDADOMGOMGOMG.
CONSTELLATIONS!
Six! as! Starbuck! I nearly fell off the couch.
In conclusion, Helo is a complete moron, and yet, still hot.
The Intensely Intellectual:
Wow, so, that was sort of disappointing.
I don't mean "disappointing" in the sense that I didn't like the arc as a whole - because I did. And not "disappointing" as it applies to the resolution, because superficially re-establishing everyone to their positions post-"Hand of God" was really the only way this arc could end without fundamentally altering the way the show is told (remember Alias after the take-down of SD-6? Yeah).
I guess I found the fulfillment of the Pythian prophecy to be the disappointing part. Because, I don't know, it always seems like the whole point of prophecies in stories is that there's one side that takes it Too Literally (Roslin), one side that thinks it's Bullshit And Completely Untrue (Adama), and at the end we discover that it's a happy medium and neither side is right nor wrong. Instead... by the end of "Home," we find out that everything Roslin believes in is true, that the Arrow of Apollo is an actual arrow that actually opens an actual tomb of Athena and reveals an actual map to Earth (sort of). Call me an atheist, but that... seems way too simple. And easy. And literal. Especially since the Cylons evidentally believe the same thing - that the prophecy is true on its face - despite that other plot line that claims Cylons are trying to understood (and emulate?) complicated social emotions like love.
I just feel REALLY CONFUSED about what the Cylons are trying to do. They blow up a vast majority of human beings, yet save a few to birth their babies. They abhor the Colonial polytheism, yet claim to know more about their scriptures than most humans and are actively trying to fulfill one of its key prophecies. Why do they want to find Earth? Is it just because the Fleet does, and the Cylons want to beat them there? Do they want to destroy Earth, too, thus wiping out all traces of human beings ever? Then why insist of keeping a few to breed, if you can just make infinite copies of the twelve models you already have? Isn't that more efficient?
Unless, that is, unless Cylons want to evolve beyond their present form, though I really don't understand why they just can't do that by drawing more blueprints beyond the first twelve. Actually, you know, that's a really intriguing question - why did the Cylons stop at twelve models? Can they just... draw more, instead of going through the tiring process of sexual reproduction with mostly unwilling and unknowing human women? Because, for all their hatred of their human parents and creators, it seems like the one thing that the Cylons want most is to be like humans. Have love and sex, without the byproducts like hate and all those nasty things that Six told Baltar about on Kobol. Not to mention the polytheism, because wow, talk about evil incarnate.
All right, so maybe I just answered my own question. Whatever.
I thought that the most subtle part of this episode - and yes, I'm about to use Baltar in an example for subtle - was the fact that Six has basically opened the door for knocking Roslin off her place as the leader in the Pythian Prohecy. Because since Six is not in fact a chip in Baltar's head (err?), that means that he's having visions. Visions that are sometimes omniscient, like the time when she warned him that something bad was going to happen on Galactica prior to Adama getting shot and everything going to hell. And as she again points out to him, he was the bearer of the vipers (snakes) when he told them where to shoot in "Hand of God." The piece of scripture that she quotes to him is Though the outcome favored the few, it led to a confrontation at the home of the gods. For the life of me, I can't dissect that. I mean, I can, in the sense that the first part refers to the resolution of "Hand of God," with the few being the Colonials, and that the second part is probably an allusion to Roslin's landing party on Kobol in "Home," but... I seriously feel like I'm grasping at straws with that analysis.
I think that I just really wanted the Arrow of Apollo to not be that actual arrow. But, in conclusion, the map to Earth is contained in the constellation of Scorpio, so I'm going to lay claim to that shout-out right now, if you don't mind.
(I welcome any discussions or clarifications or "Tahlia, you're an idiot, because ______".)
Because this seemed like fun:
For the sake of this argument, I'm starting with a random date.
March 1: Leoben causes trouble, ohnoes. There's a bomb. There isn't a bomb. Adama's a Cylon!
March 4: No, everyone's a Cylon! Ellen! Oh, wait, no. Don't argue in front of the nuclear frakking bomb, please.
March 13: Fleet attacks the Cylons' tillium mining operation and win. Well, that was unexpected.
March 23: Baltar becomes VP. There's a big party. With drinking. The lull before the storm.
March 24: Kobol is discovered!
March 25: But people crash. Laura says, "Take the raider, go get me my toy!" Kara does so. Adama gets pissed. Lee makes mutiny. Roslin gets arrested. Adama gets shot by Boomer. Tigh takes command, panics, jumps away without the rest of the fleet. Gaeta does a Cylon mission makes a computer network, and finds the fleet. Cylons board Galactica. Cylons kill lots of people. Lee saves the day. Tigh drinks a lot. Kara gets the arrow, kills a Six, gets her car jacked, breaks into her own apartment, and finds her other car.
March 26: Tigh makes martial law and still drinks a lot. People get rescued finally from Kobol.
March 27: People don't like the martial law. Lee busts Roslin out of jail. Former Kobol people are maybe Cylons. Sharon gets shot. Adama finally gets up off his ass in sickbay and doesn't seem to mind that Tigh sort of maybe a big mess on the floor. Kara meets a jock.
April 3: Adama returns! Huzzah. Roslin hides in the freezer with a terrorist, a priestess, and Lee. Kara gets her eggs stolen, possibly.
April 4: Kara and Helo and other!Sharon return! Lee is sort of pissed at everyone. They all decide to go to Kobol with other!Sharon. They find the tomb! Adama, too! Roslin is president again! Everyone gets drunk and has sex!