Never apologise for rambling all over me! When you ramble you do awesome things like put all the metatextual awesome I couldn't put into words into words. Because just YES. The comparison of your creation with a fictional creation and the breaking down of the barriers between that when that thing coming to life is as unthinkable as Laura Roslin climbing out of your TV screen.
Which, also, points back to the fundamental absurdity of BSG in its entirety (how much did I love Cavil yelling about his absurd body? VERY MUCH!).
I think part of the issue is that if there might always be a larger cycle - if breaking the fourth wall, which you think has broken away from conventional 'reality' - from expected time - is actually always a part of that cycle, then you can never, ever know if you've managed to break the cycle.
Perhaps then, the only option is to trust that you have, live as if you have, and not waste your time panicking about it?
I do wonder though, about Natalie.
If anyone combined those three things it was her. If anything seems counter-intuitive, amazing, self-destructive and self-aware, an example of doing the exact wrong thing for all logical reasons except that you wanted to - it's Natalie.
She freed the Centurions to fight for the rights of her slaves. She committed genocide on her own people to level the playing field, to look for something meaningful, to exercise her free will in pursuit of self-awareness, and she took responsibility for that.
Our lives are meaningless unless we die, she said. And so, she went first. I still miss her, but I find her death beautiful, and infinitely meaningful now. To the point that I'm desperate for Cavil to fail in his quest to rebuild the hub, or Natalie's bravery was for nothing.
Natalie's part in the cycle was certainly violent. The question: was it also subversive?
And finally, I have no idea who or what the Lords of Kobol are, although I do wonder if, combining Head Six's claims about herself and Anders' babblings, if the head people are their angels?
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Which, also, points back to the fundamental absurdity of BSG in its entirety (how much did I love Cavil yelling about his absurd body? VERY MUCH!).
I think part of the issue is that if there might always be a larger cycle - if breaking the fourth wall, which you think has broken away from conventional 'reality' - from expected time - is actually always a part of that cycle, then you can never, ever know if you've managed to break the cycle.
Perhaps then, the only option is to trust that you have, live as if you have, and not waste your time panicking about it?
I do wonder though, about Natalie.
If anyone combined those three things it was her. If anything seems counter-intuitive, amazing, self-destructive and self-aware, an example of doing the exact wrong thing for all logical reasons except that you wanted to - it's Natalie.
She freed the Centurions to fight for the rights of her slaves. She committed genocide on her own people to level the playing field, to look for something meaningful, to exercise her free will in pursuit of self-awareness, and she took responsibility for that.
Our lives are meaningless unless we die, she said. And so, she went first. I still miss her, but I find her death beautiful, and infinitely meaningful now. To the point that I'm desperate for Cavil to fail in his quest to rebuild the hub, or Natalie's bravery was for nothing.
Natalie's part in the cycle was certainly violent. The question: was it also subversive?
And finally, I have no idea who or what the Lords of Kobol are, although I do wonder if, combining Head Six's claims about herself and Anders' babblings, if the head people are their angels?