Battlestar Galactica: Six of One
BSG: 4.02
A lot happened in this episode. Kara and Adama! Roslin and Adama! Everytime I think I am completely over the good ship Kara/Lee something happens to prove to me that I am completely wrong! CYLON CIVIL WAR! Gaius continuing to be creepy beyond all reason! But I have latched onto two fairly minor points, both of which are making me a little flaily, so I'm going to talk about those.
1) A blink and you'll miss it line: Brother Cavil calls the cylon God, "The One God, the voice of reason." And all of cylon religion suddenly made sense. Of course. Their God has, as an epithet,"The Voice of Reason." The implications of that are fascinating and I have always been really intrigued by what bsg does with religion. I really hope they're going somewhere with all of that and that it makes sense when they get there.
2) Boomer voted against her model. It was really important that this was Boomer, and not just because it has more effect if it's someone we know, but because she a) was "raised" among humans who emphasize free will (of course, she wasn't but her memories say that she was) and b) mirrors Athena. Boomer and Athena switched places, and Boomer, faced with the same choice Athena had, chose the other way. And now she will defend that choice to the best of her ability, any way she knows how, even if it means choosing against her model which is not done - the same way Athena made her choice and would have allowed cylons to be wiped out by that virus if Helo hadn't stopped it. It's interesting, though, that Boomer - who made the choice to be a cylon - protects that choice by making a decision that cylons do not make. It makes me want to write Boomer companion fic to the Athena fic I wrote a year ago.
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Last night I went to the V to the 10th/Katrina Warriors thing in the New Orleans Arena. It was really cool. They had an incredible cast and activists there from all over the world. The whole thing was incredibly effective and moving and there's something about seeing The Vagina Monologues performed in a crowd of woman that large that's really amazing. I'd only ever seen it done at Loyola before. As always, the New Orleans stuff affected me most. When Charmaine Neville came out and did "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" I started crying. There was a monologue added to the end about a woman whose entire neighborhood was lost in the storm,a woman who was, prior to the storm a center of that neighborhood. The monologue was done by Liz Mikal (who was AMAZING I think it was supposed to be Oprah, but she was sick and couldn't make it), but it was based on a real woman named who was there and who they introduced only as "Miss Pat." Anyway. I'm not going to recap the whole thing (unless anyone is really curious about it and wants to know) but I really like vaginas and I'm *so* glad I decided to go to that event.
A lot happened in this episode. Kara and Adama! Roslin and Adama! Everytime I think I am completely over the good ship Kara/Lee something happens to prove to me that I am completely wrong! CYLON CIVIL WAR! Gaius continuing to be creepy beyond all reason! But I have latched onto two fairly minor points, both of which are making me a little flaily, so I'm going to talk about those.
1) A blink and you'll miss it line: Brother Cavil calls the cylon God, "The One God, the voice of reason." And all of cylon religion suddenly made sense. Of course. Their God has, as an epithet,"The Voice of Reason." The implications of that are fascinating and I have always been really intrigued by what bsg does with religion. I really hope they're going somewhere with all of that and that it makes sense when they get there.
2) Boomer voted against her model. It was really important that this was Boomer, and not just because it has more effect if it's someone we know, but because she a) was "raised" among humans who emphasize free will (of course, she wasn't but her memories say that she was) and b) mirrors Athena. Boomer and Athena switched places, and Boomer, faced with the same choice Athena had, chose the other way. And now she will defend that choice to the best of her ability, any way she knows how, even if it means choosing against her model which is not done - the same way Athena made her choice and would have allowed cylons to be wiped out by that virus if Helo hadn't stopped it. It's interesting, though, that Boomer - who made the choice to be a cylon - protects that choice by making a decision that cylons do not make. It makes me want to write Boomer companion fic to the Athena fic I wrote a year ago.
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Last night I went to the V to the 10th/Katrina Warriors thing in the New Orleans Arena. It was really cool. They had an incredible cast and activists there from all over the world. The whole thing was incredibly effective and moving and there's something about seeing The Vagina Monologues performed in a crowd of woman that large that's really amazing. I'd only ever seen it done at Loyola before. As always, the New Orleans stuff affected me most. When Charmaine Neville came out and did "Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans" I started crying. There was a monologue added to the end about a woman whose entire neighborhood was lost in the storm,a woman who was, prior to the storm a center of that neighborhood. The monologue was done by Liz Mikal (who was AMAZING I think it was supposed to be Oprah, but she was sick and couldn't make it), but it was based on a real woman named who was there and who they introduced only as "Miss Pat." Anyway. I'm not going to recap the whole thing (unless anyone is really curious about it and wants to know) but I really like vaginas and I'm *so* glad I decided to go to that event.