On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:44:30 GMT, "Joetheone"
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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.
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>> 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.
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>And..and.. they'll blow up a bunch of stuf and that will be reallllly
cool!
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The final Cylon is the Battlestar Galactica, guys. In the final scene
it transforms into a giant robot called "Megatron"....
--
The Stone Age did not end
because we ran out of stones.
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