Title: Infinite Regress (The Origin Stories Remix)
Author:
pellucidSummary: She was a prophet, and prophets are always special.
Characters: Pythia, Athena (the Lord of Kobol)
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Beta Thanks:
gabolange, as always!
Author Notes: 1600 words. A remix of
Twilight of the Idols by
nnaylime, written for
bsg_remix (2009). Originally posted
here; I'm
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I always found the idea of Kobol and whatever happened there to be one of the most fascinating and compelling parts of the show. I was so convinced, back when I (stupidly, as it turned out) thought that the endgame of the mytharc was actually going to make sense, that it would all come back to the lynchpin of Kobol and Athena and the Book of Pythia, that "Home, part 2" was the thematically pivotal episode of the series. Well, shows what I get for thinking, I suppose, but in some ways I'm just as glad they didn't touch it because by not touching it they didn't turn it into something disappointing, and now I still get to play in this playground ( ... )
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I am in love with the quiet, unceremonious blurring of lines between mortal and god. While the technical idea that the Lords of Kobol might themselves have been Cylon from a previous cycle of time (or...something Other) is not new to me, somehow it was never as clear to me as it is now that for all I love what BSG does to the boundaries of human and machine, I wish it had done the same to the boundaries of mortal and divine. And now you have done it, elegantly and painfully.
Thanks for reposting this. It's wonderful.
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The idea of the Lords of Kobol as Cylon (or...something Other--I like the way you put that!) has been a small pet theory of mine since Sharon's "Athena, whoever or whatever she really was" back in "Home, part 2." And as I mentioned above to grav_ity, I always thought (well, up until I cast aside all my expectations) that Kobol would have to be the thematic centre of the mytharc--that everything would come back to what happened there, to the prophecies and the opera house and all that. Not in a "now you have all the answers" way, but in a way that respected the thematic centrality that that part of the story appeared to have for so long. I was, of course, tremendously disappointed, though ultimately, given how bad the storytelling was in the end, I think I'm glad they just stayed away from the Lords of Kobol, because I would hate for them to have been screwed up. Now, at least, I can still play with them this way!
for all I love what BSG does to the boundaries of human and machine, I wish ( ... )
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Along one line, that makes sense since (again until the very weird ending) BSG was more specifically trying to forge a biological and familiar connection between human and machine; to describe us as solely their creator-gods might have been interesting in terms of theology but equally could cause the worry that we then wouldn't see the lines between us blurring so impossibly. However, the more I think about it, the more a shame I think this is because it completely could have been about that. The Opera House again - life/death, human/cylon. But also creator/created=god/human? D'Anna looks on her creators there, certainly. And it ( ... )
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