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Caprica
Jan 25, 2010 15:31:29 GMT -5
Post by Squeemonster on Jan 25, 2010 15:31:29 GMT -5
Interesting. I think that in our Earth (the one I think was founded by the settlers from BSG at the end of that show) the infinity sign may have been adopted by the Christian religion. Based on what I read this chicken definitely followed the egg. ;D Good catch on the infinity symbol. Don't go googling explanation for infinity. It will boggle your mind. My understanding of the end of BSG was that they found Earth - and it had been destroyed, by I am assuming nuclear bombs. Or did I miss something? That the current BSG was set in the future - our far far in the future, after we blew up our planet. It is possible that the original band of survivors of Earth - the ones that went on to populate the Caprica/et al system, brought their religions with them, one of which was Christianity - and the fish symbol could have morphed into the infinity symbol....and so on....and so on...to infinity. ETA: I will read Jane's blog tonight and revise all previous assumptions. :DI think Caprica is going to rock! I haven't watched the series finale since it aired, so I think I've blocked out a lot of it and forgotten almost all of the rest. But, what I assume, based on the snippets I remember, was that BSG was in our way way past, and that when they landed on Earth it was Neanderthal times. I need to google.
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Caprica
Jan 25, 2010 15:37:26 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 25, 2010 15:37:26 GMT -5
Interesting. I think that in our Earth (the one I think was founded by the settlers from BSG at the end of that show) the infinity sign may have been adopted by the Christian religion. Based on what I read this chicken definitely followed the egg. ;D Good catch on the infinity symbol. Don't go googling explanation for infinity. It will boggle your mind. My understanding of the end of BSG was that they found Earth - and it had been destroyed, by I am assuming nuclear bombs. Or did I miss something? That the current BSG was set in the future - our far far in the future, after we blew up our planet. It is possible that the original band of survivors of Earth - the ones that went on to populate the Caprica/et al system, brought their religions with them, one of which was Christianity - and the fish symbol could have morphed into the infinity symbol....and so on....and so on...to infinity. ETA: I will read Jane's blog tonight and revise all previous assumptions. :DI think Caprica is going to rock! I don't think that was our Earth. I think that was the 13th colony that they all called "Earth", which could be why, when they landed on the third rock from the Sun in our solar system, the settlers use of the name Earth entered into developing languages during the course of integrating and assimilating with the indigenous peoples. Like Monnie, I was under the impression that they landed on our planet during the ascendancy of the neanderthal peoples.
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Caprica
Jan 25, 2010 15:37:56 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 25, 2010 15:37:56 GMT -5
Oh, and I won't google infinity. What I know of the concept already boggles my mind. ;D
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Caprica
Jan 25, 2010 15:42:21 GMT -5
Post by Squeemonster on Jan 25, 2010 15:42:21 GMT -5
Good catch on the infinity symbol. Don't go googling explanation for infinity. It will boggle your mind. My understanding of the end of BSG was that they found Earth - and it had been destroyed, by I am assuming nuclear bombs. Or did I miss something? That the current BSG was set in the future - our far far in the future, after we blew up our planet. It is possible that the original band of survivors of Earth - the ones that went on to populate the Caprica/et al system, brought their religions with them, one of which was Christianity - and the fish symbol could have morphed into the infinity symbol....and so on....and so on...to infinity. ETA: I will read Jane's blog tonight and revise all previous assumptions. :DI think Caprica is going to rock! I don't think that was our Earth. I think that was the 13th colony that they all called "Earth", which could be why, when they landed on the third rock from the Sun in our solar system, the settlers use of the name Earth entered into developing languages during the course of integrating and assimilating with the indigenous peoples. Like Monnie, I was under the impression that they landed on our planet during the ascendancy of the neanderthal peoples. Yep, here's a blog posting that refreshed my memory on it: www.premiumhollywood.com/2009/03/21/battlestar-galactica-what-the-frak-happened-in-the-series-finale/
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Caprica
Jan 25, 2010 23:48:17 GMT -5
Post by Karen on Jan 25, 2010 23:48:17 GMT -5
Ah. Thanks for the clarification, Onjel and Monnie! Funny how easy it is to forget. And it gets easier every day. Of course, Hera was Eve and how could I have forgotten that last scene between Six and Baltar and their discussion about how it might not all happen again like it happened before.
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:27:52 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:27:52 GMT -5
Polygamy, polyandry, and who knows what all. This is interesting.
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:34:15 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:34:15 GMT -5
Zoe's dad knows she's in there. Oh. He thinks she's gone. Huh.
I can sure see how that hatred of humans started.
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:45:05 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:45:05 GMT -5
They sure have all the vices. Is that an opium ball? I mean, man. . ..
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:46:38 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:46:38 GMT -5
I love the Zoelon walking around the house and trying to sit on the furniture. And, I like the way they show Zoe from her perspective, looking like herself but from the world's perspective looking like what she is now, a cybernetic life form.
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:48:04 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:48:04 GMT -5
The avatar doesn't have mature emotions. She's stunted. Perhaps the flesh and blood Zoe would have been more . . . human. The avatar is more of a child. Is she the id?
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:58:42 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:58:42 GMT -5
Well. That little public admission is going to cause some problems in the Greystone house. Hey. Isn't Greystone the family name of Tarzan?
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 21:59:03 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 21:59:03 GMT -5
I do love this show.
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Caprica
Jan 29, 2010 22:02:53 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 29, 2010 22:02:53 GMT -5
Just like BSG: that hour went really fast.
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Caprica
Jan 30, 2010 11:37:24 GMT -5
Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Jan 30, 2010 11:37:24 GMT -5
Just like BSG: that hour went really fast. Did you see Marster's anywhere? imdb says he was in this episode, but neither Anna nor I saw him. It's interesting that Zoelon is most like the Ones and the Threes in the stuff you identify as Id, and in the antihuman feelings. Julia, I can't wait for someone to write a neoFreudian dissertation in media studies: Cylons as Manifestation of the Death Wish
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Caprica
Jan 30, 2010 11:44:22 GMT -5
Post by Onjel on Jan 30, 2010 11:44:22 GMT -5
Just like BSG: that hour went really fast. Did you see Marster's anywhere? imdb says he was in this episode, but neither Anna nor I saw him. It's interesting that Zoelon is most like the Ones and the Threes in the stuff you identify as Id, and in the antihuman feelings. Julia, I can't wait for someone to write a neoFreudian dissertation in media studies: Cylons as Manifestation of the Death Wish I didn't see him. Maybe he was part of Clarice's group family? I suspect he wasn't in it all and it was a mistake on imdb. I may have to rewatch on the rerun or online to double check. I'd like to see that dissertation, myself.
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