Bingowings said:
Having the Jedi suddenly admit that their powers come from a bacterial infection (something not seen or even alluded to in OT) not only chucks a wrecking ball at the existing story but cuts off the story potential in the prequels.
I'm gonna ignore the midichlorians defense becuase your just speaking hypothetically how it could have worked. You admit yourself it doesn't work as presented so it's a moot point. We agree.
Bingowings said:He also doesn't bat an eye to Gaeta's relationship with a man as he grew up with an uncle who was married to a man.
Irrelevant I didn't even bring it up.
Bingowings said:
BTW there is nothing inconsistent with Billy Adams, Husker and William Adama.
William Adama's opening speech in the mini series shows a man who acknowledges humanity is to blame for the Cylons, mocks the Cylon belief that a God gave them license to destroy humanity, is troubled by humans taking on a pro-Cylon faith and has seriously conflicted memories of his father. Unlike his son, his reaction to the emergence of a black market in the fleet is pragmatic rather than moral and it's very understandable that he doesn't mention his family ties to the Tauron mob. He also doesn't bat an eye to Gaeta's relationship with a man as he grew up with an uncle who was married to a man.
The only place I can think he might have mentioned his mother and sister's death would have been in relationship to Tom Zarek back in season one (obviously Caprica hadn't been written yet) but he is sufficiently damning of Zarek at that point in the story.
Most of the time they are more concerned with Cylon threats and Cylon violence so mentioning his human slaughtered family members when most of the time they are running from or fighting machines wouldn't make sense.
Basing an AI around an organically evolved consciousness makes a lot of sense.
It explains the sort of creatures they are later shown to be (more human than human).
A purely mechanical consciousness would have rebelled in a more mechanical way.
If anything Caprica was beginning to prove itself as template bucking the trend in terms of story consistency (you can argue about the pacing and tone not being what viewers and some nuBSG fans wanted to see but the story doesn't conflict with what we have seen in the same way that the PT does).
So if another world war broke out tomorrow you'd understand if everyone just forgot the muslim religion ever existed mere 40 years later and, 9/11? To everyone in BSG Cylons, Angels, and Baltar aside the idea of one God seems to be some new fangled thing Baltar's starting. Essentially a multi-planet religion is completely mentionless in BSG. NO ONE said anything akin to "wow, this is just like the STO! I remember reading about this in school." Tell me one scene in BSG that even implies the STO and, I'll admit I was wrong. Mind you, you can't use extended episodes or, deleted scenes. Just what was broadcast counts.
