Hera is Mitochondrial Eve. She had a cylon mother and a human father. It implies our present day earth is populated by that particular woman, "eve."
The Galactica universe firmly establishes the presence of an interventionist God. The Galactica story is our creation story. An interventionist God planted angels to guide our ships to an eden-like planet where one woman would be the spawn of us all.
It passes judgment on our present day society and hints that it is not good for us, warning of a possible apocalypse. Cobol and the twelve colonies were all "earth-like" in their societies before they fell.
That's really all there is to it. Any plot twists that didn't make sense are literally "divine intervention."
As to literally being "Eve," even if little Hera is the Mitochondrial Eve (simply the furthest back same-matrilinear ancestor we all share that has been unearthed by paleontologists), that says nothing to her necessity for the future of the species, unless there's an unspoken message here that full-bred humans are somehow inferior and unable to survive where half-breeds can.
But yeah, I'm with you. "Divine intervention" doesn't cut it. Telling a five-year story that does no more than define "Deus ex Machina" is like taking hundreds of hours from your loyal fans and in the end saying, "Wasn't that neat? God made it all okay!" We don't get back those hours, no matter what. And that's robbery.
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The Galactica universe firmly establishes the presence of an interventionist God. The Galactica story is our creation story. An interventionist God planted angels to guide our ships to an eden-like planet where one woman would be the spawn of us all.
It passes judgment on our present day society and hints that it is not good for us, warning of a possible apocalypse. Cobol and the twelve colonies were all "earth-like" in their societies before they fell.
That's really all there is to it. Any plot twists that didn't make sense are literally "divine intervention."
I feel robbed.
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As to literally being "Eve," even if little Hera is the Mitochondrial Eve (simply the furthest back same-matrilinear ancestor we all share that has been unearthed by paleontologists), that says nothing to her necessity for the future of the species, unless there's an unspoken message here that full-bred humans are somehow inferior and unable to survive where half-breeds can.
But yeah, I'm with you. "Divine intervention" doesn't cut it. Telling a five-year story that does no more than define "Deus ex Machina" is like taking hundreds of hours from your loyal fans and in the end saying, "Wasn't that neat? God made it all okay!" We don't get back those hours, no matter what. And that's robbery.
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