Just a little bit weird.

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a) oxoniensis has discovered the love that is Grey's Anatomy. I know you all want to go and share the George!love with her. Read Fuck the Details, which totally wins for best title award.

b) prairiedawn wins The OMG!Gary<33333 Award for linking me to this Snow Patrol gig in Vancouver, and uh, Tahmoh Penikett just wins for being dead hot and making me want to do nothing but write Helo porn.

c) ISO the following songs: Bobby Brown 'Don’t Be Cruel'; Stardust 'Music Sounds Better with You', Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out'; Modest Mouse 'Ocean Breathes Salty Water;' Beck 'New Pollution'; Blondie 'Call Me'; ETA: The Beatles 'Get Back'

d) I'm working on discrediting myself with Battlestar Galactica and everything I said about a) not seeing slash on the show and b) not needing to write for it, because it's so complete on its own. I mean, yeah, I was all what slash, and now my brain is all, think about the Helo/Lee pretty and hello, how angsty is the Chief/Helo? Sadly, one cannot have the Chief/Helo without addressing the Sharon Factor, and I'm not a Sharon fan. And yet, I just keep thinking I could actually make the Helo/Lee work.

Imagine if you thought your boyfriend was dead, and then your dead brother's fiancée (who you'd been in love with prior to your boyfriend) showed up. And then, you lost her again, only to have her come back with your dead boyfriend, who had impregnated the person who'd tried to kill your father. You'd be a really unhappy person, wouldn't you? Yeah, Lee should get laid.

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The machines aren't machines in the sense that you are thinking of like The Terminator. They're a next generation human simulations. They were "created" by other machines, but for all intents as far as we've seen they're human enough biologically to feel emotions and have sex and laugh and cry and hurt and all the things that make us who we are. The difference, well there are a lot, but one of the big ones is that when they die, their conscious and their memories are uploaded to the next model in the line. Imagine if you could keep living over and over as you, looking exactly the same, but you could learn from all your mistakes. It improves on humanity's one shot model a lot, no?

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Ah! So it's like the Sims in Hyperion, if you've read that (which if you haven't, you should, you'd love it I think). Are they connected to the machines that created them in any way, like... through their consciousness?

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Not in a remote control sort of way, if that's what you're thinking, but yes, their memories are uploaded when they die for the next iteration. The models all have assigned "tasks" shall we say, when they are sent out in the world. Their consciouses are all their own, however, and so while they may do whatever they're programmed to do, a fair amount don't know what their task is. Most don't even know they're Cylons. Sharon, for example, didn't know she was Cylon until she shot the Commander, and even afterwards, it was like she'd repressed the whole thing. She did a lot of sabotage on the ship without remembering until everything came to a head. What was even worse was that Galen had covered for her, and so it was pretty fucking tragic for both of them.