Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Six of One
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 04.11.2008
"...Please cut the fuse they will not harm their own end of line." She seems to suggest that "eight modern" is where we all get left behind in this cycle, and that we've somehow lost track of what needed to get accomplished this time, and finishes this line of the prophecy by asking them directly to "cut the fuse," knowing that "they" won't harm their own. Meaning either the humans won't take out the Final Five because they've finally grown enough to understand how stupid us/them is, or that the Raiders won't attack the Fleet because ditto, or the Five themselves aren't interested in hurting anybody at all, because life means growing and loving more.
"Limiting diffusions to two dimensions increases the number of evolutionary jumps within the species ..." This is the part that really interests me. "Diffusion" is the movement of stuff from high-pressure to low-pressure areas or systems: if I make it weird enough or apply enough pressure to Athena, she's going to decide it's less of a hassle to be human -- but since she's an Eight, she's going to get crazy about being totally, totally, scarily, boringly human. Or if I fuck with Boomer enough, she's going to give up the beauty of humanity and synthesis and -- say -- choose to be an insensate animal, a creature, with no time but now, with no memories or pain or humanity left in her. But theoretically, you could diffuse any number of directions: Three diffused upwards, and Cavil always seems to be diffusing down. Leoben seems to diffuse into crazypantsland. You and I diffuse constantly, from love to love and hate to hate, from family to family, from anger to delight to rage to fear. Limiting the show to two dimensions, to the X axis of love/fear, human/Cylon, we got a lot accomplished. By restricting the vectors of evolution to just a couple of dimensions, as the war has done, you increase the amount of change in a given organism or soul: good and evil, them and us, pain and love, loneliness and democracy, are fingers squeezing carbuncle: we're just what comes out.
But what happens when you transcend the binary? When you accomplish the story of antithesis and start looking around for more equals, more synthesis, more love? What do you do when you can't get out? You turn into something else. You rise. "...Rise and measure the temple of the Five transformation is the goal they will not harm their own data/font synchronization complete..." Speaking of Angeli, speaking of data and font, or message and medium, synchronizing: "Everything that rises, every single thing, converges in heaven. You change the world by changing yourself, and you change yourself by stepping across the lines, as the angel begs you to do. That line of salt is human and Cylon history and tears, and nothing changes until we step across and hold each other. We erase that line with love and mercy and faith, until it never existed: that salt is the tears of a million children, caught in an hallucination that we're different from each other. The lie that you're alone. Become more Cylon or become more human, all the angel needs from you is this: to become more. To rise."
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