Cylons Confuse Me

Just so that you know - I tend to blurt out major spoilers at random intervals. So if you haven't seen Galactica yet, stop reading now. You have been warned. Now on to my ramblings.

Can someone tell me what is up with Grace Park's character? I was about to believe that she is actually one of the good guys now, but then I saw the preview of the next week's episode and she shoos Adama? Again? WTF? And I thought women were confusing - Cylon women are freakin nuts! heh

Anyways, I could have let it go as just an evil editing. But then again you can hear her saying something among the lines "I'll take the father and you take the son" or whatever. Hmm... Either Skiffy marketing people are fucking brilliant to put a very misleading clip together, or there is another Cylon in the group. Or maybe not... I don't know.

Oh well... She is cute - so as long as they don't kill her too often I guess I'll be fine.

Btw, I'm curious as to what actually separates a baseline human from a cute asian Cylon chick? Was this ever explained on the show? As far as I know, there is no definite test that would detect a Cylon. Can they figure out what is human and what is not posthumously when they open them up though? If not, it would mean that the fleshy Cylons are actually 100% human all the way down to the DNA.

In other words, what makes them Cylon is not as much biology but psychological. Being Cylon is a mindset - loyalty to your own kind, indoctrination and perhaps some imprinted compulsions and etc... Yes, they are all clones, and they do seem to have some kind of mind uploading technology (I would assume - I might be totally wrong, since I missed much of the series). But a human clone is still human. And as far as we have seen, the fleshy Cylons are completely autonomous. Hence, even if they all start with the same template personality and knowledge, they will quickly diverge from the standard and become individuals in their own right.

So, I would think that it would be possible for a Cylon to feel "love" and whatnot. And, this renders all that talk about "it's not love - it's software" as bullshit. Even if they start with a standard, artificially generated personality, they do have human brains - and hence can rework their neural pathways just like we humans do. So, a Cylon who spends allot of time with humans will more or less become a human. Unless of course they have some kind of mental override which prevents this from happening.

But then, such a mechanism could be easily detected making spotting Cylon spies much easier. So far the long haired doc has not detected anything like that. But maybe that's because he has no clue what he is doing...

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