I don't know if it was an actual vision of a possible future or something head-Elosha cooked up (in which case the OOC would make sense), I'm more inclined to think it was something head!Elosha cooked up, since it actually jumped around oddly and had a dreamlike quality (the empty halls). So being OOC isn't entirely inappropriate--I just found it amusing.
D'anna - she may be my favorite female Cylon now I feel the same way! And good call about her connection to Gaius being more empowered than the other female Cylons (though yeah, bad taste!).
I DO hope that we weren't supposed to sympathize with Gaius and his lack of guilt. Surely not? I hope so, anyway. I felt myself distancing myself from that scene because that concept was too revolting.
Gaius believes he helped humanity by killing a whole bunch of them/Elosha tells Laura if she doesn't save Gaius she can't save anyone. Admittedly, my desire for a mono-vs. poly-theist throwdown is probably coloring my views. I like it, but I don't think it was intentionally played as a throwdown. The writing was heavyhanded through most of the episode so if they'd intended it this way I think it would have been made a lot clearer. Doesn't mean I don't like your reading though! :D I think it is there if you want to see it. But I found it quite blurrily ambiguous exactly which religion Roslin's visions came from. You would assume polytheism with Elosha there, and yet the message being sent was quite complementary to Gaius's own religious preaching: love is the answer? o.O I think the simplicity of the message 'just love someone' detracted from any attempt to distinguish the two religions.
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Date: 2008-06-10 12:59 am (UTC)I'm more inclined to think it was something head!Elosha cooked up, since it actually jumped around oddly and had a dreamlike quality (the empty halls). So being OOC isn't entirely inappropriate--I just found it amusing.
D'anna - she may be my favorite female Cylon now
I feel the same way! And good call about her connection to Gaius being more empowered than the other female Cylons (though yeah, bad taste!).
I DO hope that we weren't supposed to sympathize with Gaius and his lack of guilt.
Surely not? I hope so, anyway. I felt myself distancing myself from that scene because that concept was too revolting.
Gaius believes he helped humanity by killing a whole bunch of them/Elosha tells Laura if she doesn't save Gaius she can't save anyone. Admittedly, my desire for a mono-vs. poly-theist throwdown is probably coloring my views.
I like it, but I don't think it was intentionally played as a throwdown. The writing was heavyhanded through most of the episode so if they'd intended it this way I think it would have been made a lot clearer. Doesn't mean I don't like your reading though! :D I think it is there if you want to see it. But I found it quite blurrily ambiguous exactly which religion Roslin's visions came from. You would assume polytheism with Elosha there, and yet the message being sent was quite complementary to Gaius's own religious preaching: love is the answer? o.O I think the simplicity of the message 'just love someone' detracted from any attempt to distinguish the two religions.