BSG 3.20: Continuity is Hard
Mar. 27th, 2007 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wrogIf you really have written yourself into a corner, just go ahead and do the frigging Bobby-Ewing-steps-out-of-the-shower scene already.
We won't mind. Honest.
I could perhaps accept for now that they think they're Cylons.
But if it actually turns out that they are Cylons in the same sense as Sharon, Six, et al -- which, I might remind, is pretty much the only official sense right now in which one can be a Cylon,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird's Cylons for Workgroups vs. Cylons NT vs. Cylons Vista being still just a theory at this point — well,... sorry, but we'd be solidly in Retcon Territory then:
Remember the pilot?
Remember Ragnarok Station and the wonky radiation that was eating away at Leoben and Doral?
Really eating away at them?
As in hair-falling-out-ants-crawling-up-my-insides-oh-my-god-get-me-out-of-here eating away at them?
Remember how Tigh and Tyrol were both there?
... on screen a fair amount of the time actually Doing Stuff...
... on the station itself?
Did we see them similarly deteriorating in that sequence?
No?
Busted.
We won't mind. Honest.
I could perhaps accept for now that they think they're Cylons.
But if it actually turns out that they are Cylons in the same sense as Sharon, Six, et al -- which, I might remind, is pretty much the only official sense right now in which one can be a Cylon,
solarbird's Cylons for Workgroups vs. Cylons NT vs. Cylons Vista being still just a theory at this point — well,... sorry, but we'd be solidly in Retcon Territory then:Remember the pilot?
Remember Ragnarok Station and the wonky radiation that was eating away at Leoben and Doral?
Really eating away at them?
As in hair-falling-out-ants-crawling-up-my-insides-oh-my-god-get-me-out-of-here eating away at them?
Remember how Tigh and Tyrol were both there?
... on screen a fair amount of the time actually Doing Stuff...
... on the station itself?
Did we see them similarly deteriorating in that sequence?
No?
Busted.
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Date: 2007-03-28 04:39 pm (UTC)And it's been established that cyclons can have all kinds of wonky hidden programming that they don't themselves know about, so there are all sorts of ways the cylons could have been used to drop hints.
Not that they have to go that particular route, but they have to go by some route.
How serious an indictment this is in light of the fact that all TV shows suck I can't say, but it's still a
Retcon
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Date: 2007-03-28 05:24 pm (UTC)