| Re: The 13th Cylon & Battlestar Galactica |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: SolomonWSolomonW Date: Apr 5, 2008 20:27
In article bresnan.com>,
briticanlankey@bresnan.net says...> Of course, don't you see? With all the association of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
> with religious imagery, 12 models of cylons, 12 worlds of the colonies, 12
> tribes of Israel, 12 apostles, 12 gods of the Greek/Roman pantheon, etc.
> yet, what's gone unsaid, unnoticed, unmentioned is the obvious:
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> THIRTEEN!
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> It makes sense, dramatically speaking, from a meta-story point of view.
> Even
> in-story, all the time and energy spent on hiding the "Final Five" cylons
> are a diversion to hide the thirteenth cylon.
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> Like Judas or Loki, the 13th cylon would be a viewed as a betrayer. But a
> traitor to whom? cylons? humans? both? or ... someone else?
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> Mark my words, there is a thirteenth cylon model--perhaps the original one.
But Judas is generally considered one of the 12 apostles. Nor is there a
thirteen tribe that is evil in Israel, nor is there a 13th gods or
goddesses living on Mt. Olympus.
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> Don't forget the 12 Lords of Kobol.
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> And Earth is the "thirteenth" colony.
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> I heard someone surmise that Hera and the Chief's kid will be Adam and
> Eve. Everyone gets killed at the end...the Earth is the Earth of 15,000
> years ago give or take and the two kids start the human race...
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> It has all happened before and it will happen again...
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12 often occurs in many fields of human thinking probably because it is
an easy number to work with for example in mathematics but also there
are 12 months in a year, we work 12 hours intervals, 12 signs of the
Zodiac and 12 people in a jury.
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