Aw, man, but BSG was very good tonight.
Mild spoilers ahead.
They have a new religion, could be Buddhist, Judaism, or maybe Hinduism. Doesn’t matter. The point is they are human formed Cylons created for the sole purpose of infiltration and destruction of horrible and undeserving human race. Humans are evil, depraved, corrupt soulless people who are destroyers. Murderers, all of them. They couldn’t have been God’s chosen people.
Then they fall in love with humans and have an epiphany. Discover life ain’t what it cracked up to be and that there are other viewpoints. All humans aren’t made equal just like Cylons aren’t made equal. There is evil among both species. There is goodness among both. The world isn’t black and white but big hole of gray matter.
Like any society willing to impose their ideology on the masses, subjugate its people or robots to its will, and neither society wants a ripple in the social stratum. The Cylons plan to box Six and Sharon. Plan to suffocate their life-force inside the walls of a metaphoric box. Imprisonment. They are heroes to the Cylons, helped devastate the human race and sent what few remained, running for their lives. But what these two know is too much. Corrupted by the very thing they helped destroy. They must be silence because the association to the human had changed them, brought about a consciousness the Cylons could ill afford to let run rampant.
At least President Roslin is more compassionate. Willing to endure the existence of a hybrid between human and machine. Who could hurt such a sweet looking baby with the appearance so human, it’s easily to forget the other half of the DNA makeup is a Cylon. Roslin won’t ever forget, though, she’s keeping a wait and see attitude. And who cares about the hurt and pain suffered by Helo and Sharon (Galactica’s Sharon) for the lost of their baby.
Each species taking the necessary measure to protect its society way of life. I sit here wondering just which one is the cruelest. The Cylons hell bent on destroying humanity or Roslin, hell bent on surviving, which could mean the destruction of life. Roslin has gotten unemotional about making those choices. But wait, isn’t one of the reason why they flee trying to find the mother planet Earth is because they too have at once enslaved and destroyed.
BSG continues to capture my attention in way the show Lost hasn’t this season. It lulls me into a semi-conscious, slowly unrevealing the story. Then bam, I’m up sitting on the edge of my seat, thinking what the hell just happened and where are they taking this storyline. The culmination of scenes resulting with me wanting more like now.
Two more episodes left in the season. Whaaaa!
