Sleep's important, I guess, but it seems like I have the option of doing things half-assed and sleepy or not doing them at all, so I generally take the first option and hope for the best.
Do you think that Biers is idealistic? I think that she's certainly the most aggressive, and also the most manipulative, but I'm not sure that I see her as any kind of an idealist. Cavil (who I can't stop calling 'Al' in my head) is the most cynical, and -- you're right, really, Machiavellian is the exact word. I'm not sure that I think that Doral is all that manipulative. I almost think that he's sincere in what he's saying, that he at least believes in it. I'd almost call him idealistic. I don't feel like we have enough on Simon. He's strangely weak -- Starbuck had major surgery and was still able to take him down, and it's been well established that she can't take down a Six when she's running on full. He's also very... He seems more removed than the others, somehow? But possibly that's only because we've only really seen him acting in a hospital setting. Six is passionate and religious, but I read her almost like she has a real need to be loved, the way that a human would want love and approval. Same with Sharon, really, though Sharon's obviously less religious, but they both seem to want to feel like they're a part of a collective or at least a small group that really cares about them as individuals, not just as part of some sort of larger consciousness. And then Leoben. Obsessive, and dedicated, and something of a mystic. Unendingly patient -- it seems like he remains patient far past the point that most Cylons (or humans, for that matter) would have resorted to violence. And I think that's where he's scary, really, that he has the patience to just do it over and over and over again to wear someone down.
Another theory from earlier was that they get progressively more human as they get higher in number. Thirteen is Hera, half human, half Cylon. We've only got numbers for three, five, six, and eight, but I'd argue that of them, Biers seems the least human and Sharon the most. Cavil would be lower, maybe even a two, Simon maybe four, Leoben seven or nine. Six doesn't quite get the nuances of human behaviour, it seems, or understand how they work. Sharon clearly does, though, and I think that Leoben's a step or two above Six... Probably crap, but entertaining for a while.
I just want to know what, exactly, is special about Starbuck and Gaius. It can't just be that they're the easiest to get to, you know? I just can't find the common thread yet.
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Do you think that Biers is idealistic? I think that she's certainly the most aggressive, and also the most manipulative, but I'm not sure that I see her as any kind of an idealist.
Cavil (who I can't stop calling 'Al' in my head) is the most cynical, and -- you're right, really, Machiavellian is the exact word.
I'm not sure that I think that Doral is all that manipulative. I almost think that he's sincere in what he's saying, that he at least believes in it. I'd almost call him idealistic.
I don't feel like we have enough on Simon. He's strangely weak -- Starbuck had major surgery and was still able to take him down, and it's been well established that she can't take down a Six when she's running on full. He's also very... He seems more removed than the others, somehow? But possibly that's only because we've only really seen him acting in a hospital setting.
Six is passionate and religious, but I read her almost like she has a real need to be loved, the way that a human would want love and approval. Same with Sharon, really, though Sharon's obviously less religious, but they both seem to want to feel like they're a part of a collective or at least a small group that really cares about them as individuals, not just as part of some sort of larger consciousness.
And then Leoben. Obsessive, and dedicated, and something of a mystic. Unendingly patient -- it seems like he remains patient far past the point that most Cylons (or humans, for that matter) would have resorted to violence. And I think that's where he's scary, really, that he has the patience to just do it over and over and over again to wear someone down.
Another theory from earlier was that they get progressively more human as they get higher in number. Thirteen is Hera, half human, half Cylon. We've only got numbers for three, five, six, and eight, but I'd argue that of them, Biers seems the least human and Sharon the most. Cavil would be lower, maybe even a two, Simon maybe four, Leoben seven or nine. Six doesn't quite get the nuances of human behaviour, it seems, or understand how they work. Sharon clearly does, though, and I think that Leoben's a step or two above Six... Probably crap, but entertaining for a while.
I just want to know what, exactly, is special about Starbuck and Gaius. It can't just be that they're the easiest to get to, you know? I just can't find the common thread yet.