Skipping over Laura, because, yeah. There's one interpretation in which I love that scene and one in which I hate it, and I'm still angry with the show for making me doubt which one I'm supposed to take away, despite the fact that I cling to the one I like.
I am wondering if I should be concerned by the fact that I am way less squicked by Cavil's mommy issues than some other people seem to be. I guess I'm not really thinking of her as their "mother" so much as their "creator," which makes his issues still pretty creepy but way more machine-like, rather than about actual relation. Which of course raises all sorts of questions about how much relation has to do with actual genetic relation and how much it has to do with perception, ane he clearly has mommy issues and she clearly has some maternal feelings about the other models. Oh Cylons, I always say that I am not as taken with Cylons as other people, but I think perhaps that's no longer true. But seriously, I'm still not properly squicked!
I agree that these scenes would not have worked with Laura as the fifth. It would have had to have been a whole different deal, but what I rather like about the way they did do it is that it's about all five of them, collectively. Laura would never have been good as one of five. :)
The Six wigs lately have been GODAWFUL. Seriously, what happened to the old wig? It wasn't awesome but it wasn't, like, old lady helmet-head?
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Date: 2009-02-16 12:52 am (UTC)I am wondering if I should be concerned by the fact that I am way less squicked by Cavil's mommy issues than some other people seem to be. I guess I'm not really thinking of her as their "mother" so much as their "creator," which makes his issues still pretty creepy but way more machine-like, rather than about actual relation. Which of course raises all sorts of questions about how much relation has to do with actual genetic relation and how much it has to do with perception, ane he clearly has mommy issues and she clearly has some maternal feelings about the other models. Oh Cylons, I always say that I am not as taken with Cylons as other people, but I think perhaps that's no longer true. But seriously, I'm still not properly squicked!
I agree that these scenes would not have worked with Laura as the fifth. It would have had to have been a whole different deal, but what I rather like about the way they did do it is that it's about all five of them, collectively. Laura would never have been good as one of five. :)
The Six wigs lately have been GODAWFUL. Seriously, what happened to the old wig? It wasn't awesome but it wasn't, like, old lady helmet-head?