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[meret.livejournal.com]

Slightly tongue-in-cheek meta
I had a strange thought while watching the show. I’m not saying it was intended this way, but it does fit well. The cylons are fundamentalists! #6 tells Gaius that God has a plan for everyone, and that everything happens for a reason. These are both things that fundamentalist Christians believe. (Some non-fundamentalist Christians believe these also.) Fundamentalists also see women and sex, especially female sexuality, as evil and a sin. Female cylons like Sharon and #6 using their feminine wiles on human males to get want they want fits in with the fundamentalist view of women.

The question then becomes what constitutes God to a machine? Do they worship the original binary code of the first independent thinking cylon as the sacred text? Do they pour over the ones and zeros like the Bible code or Kabala?

ETA - Thought of something else. #6 - could that be short for 666? ;)

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I love Starbuck, and like that they have strong female characters. I *hate* the fact that the two female characters that are sexually active are both evil. They need to show Starbuck as very sexually active. Not with any of the main characters, but show her getting out of bed with different extras from time to time. Not only do I think this would fit her character, (She seems very much in the mold of eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.), but it would counter the evil portrayal of female sexuality in the cylons.

I wonder if more of Sharon’s personality will take over the farther away they get from the cylon planet?

Edward James Olmos is playing the exact same character he played in Miami Vice.

WTF was the president using an analogy about a mistake with Apollo for? Based on current information, it was the right decision. So think about all the lives you saved instead of the ones that were lost and move on. This is war.

IIRC, all the cylons are connected, right? What one knows they all know?

Billy needs to offer the President some loving comfort as stress relief from time to time. It could just be physical on both their parts. She plans to break it off once she and Adama start getting emotionally involved, but he finds out first, and does *not* react well. *g* Either that or both Apollo and Adama could be attracted to her. *g*

Unfortunately I didn’t see any sexual chemistry between Starbuck and Apollo. Maybe that will change in future eps.

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[jink98.livejournal.com]

Them acting like siblings makes total sense in the show, seeing as Starbuck was engaged to Apollo's brother. I think there is chemistry there (see: power play/argument about Starbuck taking her stims), but they're both fighting the chemistry BECAUSE Starbuck was almost married to Apollo's brother.

[morwen_peredhil]

I agree. I think they have plenty of chemistry. (It's funny how differently people are perceiving this.) In the situation they're in—painful personal history, new professional relationship, world ending, etc.—I'd fight it too.

The last thing I want is for these two to jump each other's bones ASAP. It's far more delicious this way. The actors both say they'd like something more to happen in the second or third season, assuming we're lucky enough to get them.