Cylons!

[lyssie]

You know what's weird? Realizing starbuckisdead still has you friended. I wonder what happened to the person that created it? It's like those RP journals from Fandom High that got dumped after two weeks, but still have Boomer and Felix friended.

That said, I was babbling at kali921, and wanted to post this here, too--

Spoilers for Sometimes a Great Notion (4...whatever)

I've actually been contemplating this for a while, in re: the Dylan Four, but.

What if the 13th tribe aren't poly or mono theistic? What if they're more into the concepts of reincarnation and karma? The idea that there's a yin and a yang and a cycle of time and balance to the universe?

I mean, isn't that what Ellen basically implied? That she and Saul would return, and be together again?

And the DF are remembering their 'past lives', seeing themselves through the lenses of their current bodies.

*flippy hand* Just a thought.

Comments

[scarfman]

Isn't that stuff implied already to be in the Cylons' theism with their all this has happened before, and all this will happen again mantra?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they all believe in a One True God.

[viciouswishes.livejournal.com]

I always got that the Cylons themselves were monotheists who only believed in reincarnation due to the resurrection ship. (Leoben and Three who are the nutty religious ones on the fringe who believe in it all happening again.) I thought that Tory took on this because she believed she was Cylon and that's what a Cylon believed in and thus her trying to fit in with the Cylons. As far as I know, Tyrol still is a polytheist and Tigh and Andres seen pretty atheistic.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Tory needed something that would make her life make sense, I think and grabbed onto the idea that God made them perfect, no matter what.

Tyrol is sort of agnostic--he grew up with the faith, but I don't know how much he believed until now (the Temple of Five, for instance, changed things). I think he believes in something, now.

Tigh and Anders are unknowns. Tigh's never given any indication, Anders once prayed (when he found Kara). What that means in the larger scheme of things, I don't know.

[zorb]

I like that. It fits well with the funky type of resurrection/reincarnation that they, and maybe-possibly Kara, went through.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I sort of want it to freak everyone out (especially the "GOD HAS A PLAN" cylons).

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall it sort of did, but then we were all "screw you!" and someone created that Starbucklives comm. Heheheheh...

The idea of resurrection... Well, it makes a sort of sense, so I don't know if I would have laughed. I probably would have giggled, though (I giggled while watching, so...)

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

I think there must be a monotheism, if the Final Five are the five priests of the one whose name cannot be spoken.

[hecatesknickers.livejournal.com]

I would love this, so much. It makes sense, and would flip everyone's (er, on the show) perceptions about religion which is always good to me.