sex and death on Battlestar Galactica -- spoilers for Friday's ep

[devohoneybee]

So, can we get any clearer than Caine's speech to Starbuck? Don't hesitate? It's like she's saying "do me, kill me" as the big orgasm. Am I totally off the mark here? Did anyone else see it?

And Pegasis 6 with Baltar --

6: I want to die.
Baltar: I love you.

And Adama getting more affectionate with Laura, even kissing her, the closer she gets to dying.

And Boomer with Adama: Maybe humans don't deserve to survive -- and Adama has no fight with that. Maybe his decision to not kill Caine is a reflection of his contempt for her? It's like he's refusing to be her lover. It's the one place where the death is sexy equation isn't happening.

And then, of course, in Caine's death scene, 6 telling her "you're not my type" as she pulls the trigger. Again, sex and death, but this time, in negation.

So, I'm a latecomer to watching this show -- is it pretty much a given that the underlying mythology of this show is that humanity is irretrievably tainted and does deserve to die? That it's karma time, baby? (but you might as well enjoy the ride? -- hence the eroticization of so much of the death-dealing... with the hyper-blonde sex-babe 6 as the visible face of the ultimate death-dealers, the cylons.) Lee's choice when faced with death is another response -- he'd rather surrender to death than embrace a morally tainted life.

I do sense that there is hope, here. But it won't happen till the full weight of karma is made conscious and embraced.

Comments

[devohoneybee.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure the "One Creator of all" is consistent with "let's kill all the humans." After all, humans are God's children, too, one would think. Unless there is the sense of "humans deserve to die for their sins." It brings up the question, also, of just how conscious/aware/planful the Cylons are, versus acting from their own unconscious, so to speak.

[macgeorge1.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure the "One Creator of all" is consistent with "let's kill all the humans.""

(snerk) Of course, but history is rife with followers of uni-deity religions that want to kill anyone who doesn't believe exactly like they do. There is "us" and there is "other" and "other" becomes synonymous with "evil". Somehow the fervent belief that a beneficent God created them all doesn't manage to override human fears that drive xenophobic territoriality.

[devohoneybee.livejournal.com]

too true, alas.