<jphamlore@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Ron Moore's version of Battlestar Galactica may be a classic in an
> almost literal fa****on--could Battlestar Galactica be Plato's The
> Republic refa****oned as a science fiction television series?
>
> Why shouldn't people be completely selfish because might makes right?
> Because the ultimately unhappy person is the tyrant, that is, Baltar,
> at the end of the occupation. Battlestar Galactica showed the
> downward progression from oligarchy, the first commander of Pegasus
> after Admiral Helena Cain and the black market mafia, to democracy,
> the people who voted for Baltar, and finally the tyranny of Baltar.
>
> Interestingly, Plato's The Republic ends with the Myth of Er, where a
> miraculously revived soldier tells of the endless cycle of
> reincarnation that distills the essence of souls, with each cycle
> involving people forgetting previous lives before passing on to the
> next. And note that in this myth, people could choose to be
> reincarnated as animals, such as Greek hero Ajax choosing to be a
> lion, and vice versa. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that
> Cylon souls can reincarnate as human souls and vice versa because that
> speculation was explicitly stated by Leoben to Starbuck when he
> explained that in other cycles she had been in his place and he in
> hers.
>
> The final Cylon I think, isn't, or is, everyone, everything, past,
> present, and future. The final Cylon is the collective consciousness
> of the universe. The choice is to continue the cycle, to continue the
> distillation, to purify or discard the dross ... or to end the cycle,
> to do what Admiral Adama would advise, to "live with it". The Cylons,
> what is left of them, jump and really do go their own way, or maybe
> some stay behind to cast their lot with humans, but there is no final
> resolution, no victory of one side or another. After all, in each
> cycle there must eventually be human and Cylon, just like there are
> both humans and animals.
And..and.. they'll blow up a bunch of stuf and that will be reallllly
cool!
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