Monday, monday.
BPAL of the Day:
Poisoned Apple: A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
This reminds me very much of The Hesperides, minus the candied sweetness. Also, whereas The Hesperides felt very green to me, in my mind's eye, I'm picturing a very perfect red apple-- very true to the description. This smells scrumptious-- I certainly would take a bite. As the apple top note wears off, though-- I do smell something herbal and incensy. The oleander is most predominant, the opium only coming out after the scent is completely dry and most of the apple note has gone. A lingering poison, I like that.
It's Monday, and I slept fitfully last night. I actually dreamt that I called in sick and turned off my alarm clock. Oh, if only. The weather is dreadful right now-- the wind howled all night long and nearly blew me off my feet this morning. It's cold and damp, and tonight, it might snow. Hi, weather? Yeah. I put away most of my winter clothes, 'cause, you know, it's April. I am ready to wear pretty long skirts, so if you don't mind, please raise the temperature above fifty, please and thank you.
I did take a quick trip to thecrack craft store yesterday-- in addition to more wire and a strawberry quartz focal bead, I found really fun art paper. Cheesily enough, it's called the "Happily Ever After" stack-- beautiful Ever After type prints. Florentine, arabesques, fairy tale motif. Cute, and I'm going to use it as wrapping for my jewelry. Today, I begin whittling down my currently $160 supply order to about $120, so I can place it on Thursday. It'll be hard, as you can't really cut corners with findings, and focal beads and shells are expensive.
Got through "Downloaded" last night in my BSG viewing, and I totally love Caprica Six's inner Gaius way more than I like Gaius's inner Six, as hot as she may be. So, they're showing us that love taints Cylons in some way-- it makes them more human. What I want to know is aside from Gaius's innner Six, how does loving a Cylon change a human? Aside from general emotional fallout, we don't have any hard proof that it does. That said, Caprica Six is fascinating, and I hope we see a lot more of her.
Most of the other parts of the episode made me wonder at technical things-- so, we know that there are thousands of bodies waiting to be used by the twelve models, presumably both on Cylon homeworlds and on the resurrection ships. When one Cylon dies, s/he is "downloaded" into a new body, full of the old body's memories.
My questions are this-- are there a set number of each model in existance at any point in time? Like-- 100 Sixes and 100 Eights, etc.? That, and how do they manage the memory thing? Something like each time a Cylon dies, his/her memories go to a memory bank for that specific model, and each model that is resurrected has access to all of those memories? Therefore resurrected Boomer has access to all the memories of Sharons before her, but not of Sharon aboard Galactica? But were both of them to be killed, their resurrected selves would have access to both sets of memories? That's my theory. Hopefully the show will clarify this somewhat-- technical details tend to drive me a little nuts. Does Pegasus Captive Six have the same memories as Caprica Six? Things like that. I mean, I assume that she does, because later on, it seemed like she recognized Baltar, but I'm not sure if it was ever explicitly clear. If so, that meant that Pegasus Captive Six was likely resurrected after Caprica Six died in the miniseries, but then how did she get on the Pegasus? And shouldn't all new Sixes effectively be Caprica Sixes?
This is like Reverend Mothers to the nth degree. I think I need a flow chart.
ETA: The theory that
whisperwords posits makes sense: each Cylon has its own "personality" but shares a fact-bank with other members of its model. When you think of why being "boxed" is a threat to Cylons, that kind of backs the theory up.
More coffee.
Poisoned Apple: A perfect, lovely, gleaming red apple whose sweetness masks a swirl of narcotic opium, oleander, and hemlock.
This reminds me very much of The Hesperides, minus the candied sweetness. Also, whereas The Hesperides felt very green to me, in my mind's eye, I'm picturing a very perfect red apple-- very true to the description. This smells scrumptious-- I certainly would take a bite. As the apple top note wears off, though-- I do smell something herbal and incensy. The oleander is most predominant, the opium only coming out after the scent is completely dry and most of the apple note has gone. A lingering poison, I like that.
It's Monday, and I slept fitfully last night. I actually dreamt that I called in sick and turned off my alarm clock. Oh, if only. The weather is dreadful right now-- the wind howled all night long and nearly blew me off my feet this morning. It's cold and damp, and tonight, it might snow. Hi, weather? Yeah. I put away most of my winter clothes, 'cause, you know, it's April. I am ready to wear pretty long skirts, so if you don't mind, please raise the temperature above fifty, please and thank you.
I did take a quick trip to the
Got through "Downloaded" last night in my BSG viewing, and I totally love Caprica Six's inner Gaius way more than I like Gaius's inner Six, as hot as she may be. So, they're showing us that love taints Cylons in some way-- it makes them more human. What I want to know is aside from Gaius's innner Six, how does loving a Cylon change a human? Aside from general emotional fallout, we don't have any hard proof that it does. That said, Caprica Six is fascinating, and I hope we see a lot more of her.
Most of the other parts of the episode made me wonder at technical things-- so, we know that there are thousands of bodies waiting to be used by the twelve models, presumably both on Cylon homeworlds and on the resurrection ships. When one Cylon dies, s/he is "downloaded" into a new body, full of the old body's memories.
My questions are this-- are there a set number of each model in existance at any point in time? Like-- 100 Sixes and 100 Eights, etc.? That, and how do they manage the memory thing? Something like each time a Cylon dies, his/her memories go to a memory bank for that specific model, and each model that is resurrected has access to all of those memories? Therefore resurrected Boomer has access to all the memories of Sharons before her, but not of Sharon aboard Galactica? But were both of them to be killed, their resurrected selves would have access to both sets of memories? That's my theory. Hopefully the show will clarify this somewhat-- technical details tend to drive me a little nuts. Does Pegasus Captive Six have the same memories as Caprica Six? Things like that. I mean, I assume that she does, because later on, it seemed like she recognized Baltar, but I'm not sure if it was ever explicitly clear. If so, that meant that Pegasus Captive Six was likely resurrected after Caprica Six died in the miniseries, but then how did she get on the Pegasus? And shouldn't all new Sixes effectively be Caprica Sixes?
This is like Reverend Mothers to the nth degree. I think I need a flow chart.
ETA: The theory that
whisperwords posits makes sense: each Cylon has its own "personality" but shares a fact-bank with other members of its model. When you think of why being "boxed" is a threat to Cylons, that kind of backs the theory up.More coffee.