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I'm seeing a lot of biblical refferences in BSG, more than just the overt refferences to the Cylon god and the now famous picture of the main cast depicting a reverse image of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper". The most obvious is a not-very-accurate retelling of Exodus. The colonials (Israelites) have been wandering through the desert (space) and are going to return to the promised land (earth). They find a place to settle, and are then reconquered by the Babylonians (cylons). The Babylonian Exile (cylon occupation) ends. Could the fleet heading for Earth be "rebuilding the temple"? Will there be a benefactor among the Cylons who helps them achieve this?
There were twelve colonies in BSG, and twelve tribes of Israel.
Also, there were twelve apostles and twelve cylon models. Everyone wants to know who the twelfth Cylon is. I'm curious if there's a Cylon Messiah. The most likely candidate would be Baltar. They're already setting him up for it, it would seem. It makes sense, when you think about it. Baltar is preaching about the one true god, but he's originally a human. He worshipped the human gods. Jesus was a Jew who preached radically different ideas from the traditional Judaism of the time and they eventually became Christianity.
Six seems to be a devil, which works because her name is Six for crap's sake. And all the red. But she helps along Baltar, which also kind of makes her God. She's probably one of the most complex characters on the show. I think she's also the Cylon's Judas Iscariot. She will betray them, and eventually maybe even betray Baltar, but without her, Baltar won't be the Cylon Messiah. Then there's the fact that she's the in the Jesus position in the Last Supper picture.
All of this is based on stuf I only half remember from the Bible. All my years as a JW taught me a skewed version, so I'm trying to cut it down to what actually happened in the Bible compared to what the JW's got wrong. I'd love to hear a Jewish perspective on this theory, because of course they would know more about this than I ever would. Also, I wonder how respectful using someone's cultural history as the basis for a science fiction story is.
There was a link on Digg today posing that BSG would have kind of an Evangelion style ending where Humanity was the last Cylon, just like Humanity was the last Angel. If Adama and Starbuck become frakking squiggly lines at any point during this season, I'm done. I'll never watch another show on Sci-fi again.
There were twelve colonies in BSG, and twelve tribes of Israel.
Also, there were twelve apostles and twelve cylon models. Everyone wants to know who the twelfth Cylon is. I'm curious if there's a Cylon Messiah. The most likely candidate would be Baltar. They're already setting him up for it, it would seem. It makes sense, when you think about it. Baltar is preaching about the one true god, but he's originally a human. He worshipped the human gods. Jesus was a Jew who preached radically different ideas from the traditional Judaism of the time and they eventually became Christianity.
Six seems to be a devil, which works because her name is Six for crap's sake. And all the red. But she helps along Baltar, which also kind of makes her God. She's probably one of the most complex characters on the show. I think she's also the Cylon's Judas Iscariot. She will betray them, and eventually maybe even betray Baltar, but without her, Baltar won't be the Cylon Messiah. Then there's the fact that she's the in the Jesus position in the Last Supper picture.
All of this is based on stuf I only half remember from the Bible. All my years as a JW taught me a skewed version, so I'm trying to cut it down to what actually happened in the Bible compared to what the JW's got wrong. I'd love to hear a Jewish perspective on this theory, because of course they would know more about this than I ever would. Also, I wonder how respectful using someone's cultural history as the basis for a science fiction story is.
There was a link on Digg today posing that BSG would have kind of an Evangelion style ending where Humanity was the last Cylon, just like Humanity was the last Angel. If Adama and Starbuck become frakking squiggly lines at any point during this season, I'm done. I'll never watch another show on Sci-fi again.