This is really fascinating, I'm so glad you wrote it up!
I'm quite convinced by your reading of both Six and Eight. I found Athena's shooting of Natalie to be quite out of character, because her actions have always seemed much more... calculated than that was, but when you put it in the context of her other acts of violence against the Cylon it makes most sense.
I'm not sure that the movement toward individualism rests as strongly in any of the Cylon models as it does in Six. Eights appear s a group except when they're put in position by a plan from higher up, and even the wannabe-Athena gets her individuality by joining with another. But Sixes separate themselves and develop individuaity on their own from experiences that don't necessarily force it upon them. Where did Natalie get her name? Even the Six who was traumatised by drowning let that experience change her in ways that the other Cylon might not.
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Date: 2008-08-22 02:15 pm (UTC)I'm quite convinced by your reading of both Six and Eight. I found Athena's shooting of Natalie to be quite out of character, because her actions have always seemed much more... calculated than that was, but when you put it in the context of her other acts of violence against the Cylon it makes most sense.
I'm not sure that the movement toward individualism rests as strongly in any of the Cylon models as it does in Six. Eights appear s a group except when they're put in position by a plan from higher up, and even the wannabe-Athena gets her individuality by joining with another. But Sixes separate themselves and develop individuaity on their own from experiences that don't necessarily force it upon them. Where did Natalie get her name? Even the Six who was traumatised by drowning let that experience change her in ways that the other Cylon might not.