| Re: The 13th Cylon & Battlestar Galactica |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: toolytooly Date: Apr 7, 2008 18:57
"curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote in message
news:SLKdnetQkeSVRmranZ2dnUVZ_v2pnZ2d@bresnan.com...> 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:
>
> 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?
>
> Mark my words, there is a thirteenth cylon model--perhaps the original
> one.
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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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>
I tried getting interested in this well made TV series, but the overwhelming
treatment of women as Amazonian Warriors simply was too unreal to accept. I
think the writers wanted to advance certain social agenda to the
viewer...essentially some sort of feminist ideal or something. I find
almost all these shows that treat women on an 'absolute' equal footing as
men as simply unreal. In the real world, women, though often very competent
in their own right, simply do not deal with "potentially violent situations"
in the same way as men; often men 'cover up' the weaknesses of the women
they must work aside. Rarely are women the true pecking order leaders that
these TV shows suggest. Needless to say, I stopped watching.
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