I know but the framing feels off if that's what they're going for. Thinking about it I suspect the reference isn't to adolescence but to infancy. Zoe's just a baby cylon. Aw!
I do get the sense, which I also get from stories set just before WWI, of a society poised on the brink, willing itself not to fall (although only through the magic of reader hindsight).
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Date: 2010-03-29 09:37 pm (UTC)I do get the sense, which I also get from stories set just before WWI, of a society poised on the brink, willing itself not to fall (although only through the magic of reader hindsight).