Er, I think suicides don't get downloaded. Where did I read that? I'm sure I've seen it discussed in the meta... But yeah, it's true that the Six blowing herself up thing needs more explanation. Now that I have you 'in' BSG, I will do more pondering on this... and investigation of the fandom. I hear there is going to be some internet-only miniseries between S2 and S3--I don't really know the details yet. Not sure if anyone does.
I *knew* the priest the Chief had the conversation with was a Cylon from the moment I saw him. I think it's something about how religion is always connected to conservatism in this series, so the minute you had a liberal priest he seemed suspect to me. You are clever and great. ;-)
speaking of reviews, weren't you going to post more about "Vessel"? Urgh yes! good call! I've been doing LJ catch up on the meta I missed and then SV Social was rather distracting! (How brilliant was it, btw! Are you still reeling?)
I still haven't read a tenth of the comments from the SV social (over 1600 at last count), and yeah, I am still reeling a little bit from that.
If you find the essay on suicides, by all means send it my way. I can't think of the mechanism by which they would prevent a suicide from downloading, though maybe they just box them? Or maybe the cloud nebula thingy was so far away that after they destroyed the resurrection ship she just couldn't download? Obviously she *didn't* download, since they needed the nuclear signature to find the planet, but I do find it hard to understand her suicide.
Yeah, it's a puzzle... I'll try and hunt out some stuff on it for you.
And I agree about Billy and the Adamas--I found it interesting to see Adama as the softening influence on Roslin for once--such a reversal!
I think the SV Social took care of itself. ;-) It's been good to see a couple of the newly delurked posting since then too. I think you just gave the SV fandom an intravenous hit of something or other... in a good way! ;-)
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I *knew* the priest the Chief had the conversation with was a Cylon from the moment I saw him. I think it's something about how religion is always connected to conservatism in this series, so the minute you had a liberal priest he seemed suspect to me.
You are clever and great. ;-)
speaking of reviews, weren't you going to post more about "Vessel"?
Urgh yes! good call! I've been doing LJ catch up on the meta I missed and then SV Social was rather distracting! (How brilliant was it, btw! Are you still reeling?)
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If you find the essay on suicides, by all means send it my way. I can't think of the mechanism by which they would prevent a suicide from downloading, though maybe they just box them? Or maybe the cloud nebula thingy was so far away that after they destroyed the resurrection ship she just couldn't download? Obviously she *didn't* download, since they needed the nuclear signature to find the planet, but I do find it hard to understand her suicide.
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And I agree about Billy and the Adamas--I found it interesting to see Adama as the softening influence on Roslin for once--such a reversal!
I think the SV Social took care of itself. ;-) It's been good to see a couple of the newly delurked posting since then too. I think you just gave the SV fandom an intravenous hit of something or other... in a good way! ;-)
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