3.06: Torn

[Brown Rat]

(I'm guessing that Scott is referring to the hybrid who controls the baseship.) I didn't notice a resemblance.

[manephelien]

Well, I certainly didn't!

[ScottSF]

yeah. The one that was covered in goo and spouting surreal nonsense. I was wondering if she looked like anybody because I'm always wondering who else is a cylon. Now I'm also wondering if Baltar's mind was the template for cylon skin-job consciousness somehow.

[Dave]

I didn't see a resemblance between the baseship Cylon hybrid controller woman (reminiscent of the psychics in 'Minority Report' I thought!) and Casey's mother.

I also liked that there is now an explanation for the Cylon (dream sequences) projection psychology.

The diseased probe thing - Baltar said during one of his dream sequences that it was of human origin. There was no evidence to back that up. I guess we will find out more next week, as Caprica Six obviously knew that he lied about not seeing it.

Originally Posted by manephelien

...if the virus is capable of being transmitted by radio or whatever method the Cylons use to "telepathically" communicate with one another (when taking votes from different individuals of the same model), or downloading into a new body. Obviously they feared that a dying contaminated Cylon would transmit the virus into the next body its personality inhabits, so it sounds like computer code to me. Although why would computer code need a capsule to activate? This episode definitely asks as many questions as it answers about the Cylons and their culture...

Have you read 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson?

The virus in that book takes the form of both a computer virus, capable of infecting the brains of unwary hackers in the Metaverse (a kind of virtual reality that would have a parallel in the Cylon projection pyschology) and a drug in the real world, being distributed by a network of Pentecostal churches via its infrastructure and belief system.

He speculates that early Sumerian culture used a primordial language which could be interpreted by human beings through the deep structures of the brain, rendering the learning of what he refers to as "acquired languages" needless. This theoretical language is related to glossolalia — also known as the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues" — stating that the babbling of glossolalia is in truth a truncated form of the primordial language. A comparison is made to computers and their binary machine code.

I just wonder if that is the direction this is going?