This is a fascinating post - thank you for sharing it. And it's made me think about Blade Runner as much as BSG (must dig out my old video of it - and wasn't Edward James Olmos in that, too?)
To play devil's advocate, though, in relation to one point -
Boomer and Six mimic human emotions pretty well but don’t seem to get the overarching essence of human feeling. (Six confuses sex and love; Boomer doesn’t understand why Tyrol had to break up with her, etc.)
...this may very well be true, but both Boomer and Six's mistakes are ones which *real* human characters could just as easily make or fool themselves into making, and so neither example, imho, is conclusive evidence. That said, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out that Cylons "just don't get it" with respect to being human - it's just, at the minute, they're still (pleasingly) ambiguous.
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Date: 2005-02-27 02:05 pm (UTC)To play devil's advocate, though, in relation to one point -
Boomer and Six mimic human emotions pretty well but don’t seem to get the overarching essence of human feeling. (Six confuses sex and love; Boomer doesn’t understand why Tyrol had to break up with her, etc.)
...this may very well be true, but both Boomer and Six's mistakes are ones which *real* human characters could just as easily make or fool themselves into making, and so neither example, imho, is conclusive evidence. That said, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it turned out that Cylons "just don't get it" with respect to being human - it's just, at the minute, they're still (pleasingly) ambiguous.