Separations
Jan. 21st, 2007 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hazelkWith its new timeslot being on Sundays I doubt I’ll get time to watch the new BSG episode until the middle of next week. So in lieu of fresh meat (yay anagram) some leftover thoughts on the Eye of Jupiter
Poor Caprica (so the little mermaid) getting the “brush off of destiny.” Interestingly she’s no longer unique in having earned a name of her own these days, the cancer of individuality has spread to include D’Anna. A nice touch marking the slow decline of Cylon society into double–dealing and intrigue. They could have blown the humans out of the sky on arrival but Gaius argued that might cost them the Eye and D’Anna (presumably) backed him up to give herself more time to arrange a temple trip so that between the Lebonen being paranoid about losing sight of the stream and the Cavil wanting to kill all the troublesome apes already they hesitated and lost. And during negotiations the Cavil did manage to drop Baltar in it in a fit of spontaneous spite. To be sneaky is human.
Most Sturm and Drang on the intrawebs seems to have been devoted to Lee and Kara’s tryst. Having though it over I still don’t see Kara’s point that divorce would be breaking a vow as that rampantly hypocritical. Divorce being a worse sin than adultery isn’t a common attitude in the Anglo-American West where the Lutheran idea of religion as being primarily about personal salvation holds sway and divorce has been legal so long that people feel it to be more unfortunate than sinful. In former times and other places religion was/is much more a force for social cohesion and divorce, by breaking the contact between society and God, was far more unthinkable than any private failings of the flesh. If this were Moore’s thinking it would be a slight departure from the way his imaginary society so often mirrors the current US but not an uninteresting one.
Naked porn-wielding Tyrol is still funny.
Poor Caprica (so the little mermaid) getting the “brush off of destiny.” Interestingly she’s no longer unique in having earned a name of her own these days, the cancer of individuality has spread to include D’Anna. A nice touch marking the slow decline of Cylon society into double–dealing and intrigue. They could have blown the humans out of the sky on arrival but Gaius argued that might cost them the Eye and D’Anna (presumably) backed him up to give herself more time to arrange a temple trip so that between the Lebonen being paranoid about losing sight of the stream and the Cavil wanting to kill all the troublesome apes already they hesitated and lost. And during negotiations the Cavil did manage to drop Baltar in it in a fit of spontaneous spite. To be sneaky is human.
Most Sturm and Drang on the intrawebs seems to have been devoted to Lee and Kara’s tryst. Having though it over I still don’t see Kara’s point that divorce would be breaking a vow as that rampantly hypocritical. Divorce being a worse sin than adultery isn’t a common attitude in the Anglo-American West where the Lutheran idea of religion as being primarily about personal salvation holds sway and divorce has been legal so long that people feel it to be more unfortunate than sinful. In former times and other places religion was/is much more a force for social cohesion and divorce, by breaking the contact between society and God, was far more unthinkable than any private failings of the flesh. If this were Moore’s thinking it would be a slight departure from the way his imaginary society so often mirrors the current US but not an uninteresting one.
Naked porn-wielding Tyrol is still funny.