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.
::clings to you::
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.
Well, firstly, I'm probably not as squicked as some. I'm actually awed and impressed and very much in favour of the plotline. But the reason I do find it squicky and the reason it pings as strongly Oedipal and evidence of just how messed-up Cavil is is because of the way the characters choose to interpret their relationship.
It probably won't squick me that much (although I'll enjoy the greek-god-incestuous metaphors) when/if Caprica/Tigh or Tyrol/Boomer exist as couples where one half of them remembers creating the other half. There's a lot of time that's passed; sections of that where neither knew what they were to each other, and we have no idea how Tyrol and Tigh feel about their role as creators, nor who the models they ended up with were based on in relation to them.
The reason it's particularly squicky and awesome in the case of Ellen/Tigh is the fact that they're choosing to play up that family connection more than they need to. Everything about Ellen's attitudes to him screams mommy and boy, at the same time as she's paying tribute to her own father. At the same time Cavil knows this and yet knowing decides to sleep with her to prove some kind of point.
It's less the technical truth of their relationship and more the way the show and characters themselves chose to make it about the familial side of things.
Laura would never have been good as one of five. :)
She would have been AWESOME, just...not in this episode. ;)
Seriously, what happened to the old wig? It wasn't awesome but it wasn't, like, old lady helmet-head?
I'd grown accustomed to that one's badness!
I miss the LateS2/EarlyS3 wigs. Is it...sad that I can vaguely remember the differences and which one I liked best?
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::clings to you::
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.
Well, firstly, I'm probably not as squicked as some. I'm actually awed and impressed and very much in favour of the plotline. But the reason I do find it squicky and the reason it pings as strongly Oedipal and evidence of just how messed-up Cavil is is because of the way the characters choose to interpret their relationship.
It probably won't squick me that much (although I'll enjoy the greek-god-incestuous metaphors) when/if Caprica/Tigh or Tyrol/Boomer exist as couples where one half of them remembers creating the other half. There's a lot of time that's passed; sections of that where neither knew what they were to each other, and we have no idea how Tyrol and Tigh feel about their role as creators, nor who the models they ended up with were based on in relation to them.
The reason it's particularly squicky and awesome in the case of Ellen/Tigh is the fact that they're choosing to play up that family connection more than they need to. Everything about Ellen's attitudes to him screams mommy and boy, at the same time as she's paying tribute to her own father. At the same time Cavil knows this and yet knowing decides to sleep with her to prove some kind of point.
It's less the technical truth of their relationship and more the way the show and characters themselves chose to make it about the familial side of things.
Laura would never have been good as one of five. :)
She would have been AWESOME, just...not in this episode. ;)
Seriously, what happened to the old wig? It wasn't awesome but it wasn't, like, old lady helmet-head?
I'd grown accustomed to that one's badness!
I miss the LateS2/EarlyS3 wigs. Is it...sad that I can vaguely remember the differences and which one I liked best?
This one though, is the WORST WIG EVER.