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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 3121361" data-attributes="member: 115">Okay, maybe I'm becoming something of a film geek, but there were a couple of really subtle lines and shots I loved in this episode.The first was Tigh telling the Chief, "You don't want your kid having us for parents."  It's a tacit admission of how messed up they are, and a subtle reassurance that their baby will be taken care of if he doesn't make it back.The second was Baltar and Caprica-Six sitting on the bed.  The whole scene was great, but the last shot of them on the bed, backs to each other but not touching, Gaius in white and Caprica in black... there's a lot of very unstated symbolism there.  Gaius may be spiralling into self-loathing, but that's actually a good thing because he's becoming more human, hence the white.  Caprica on the other hand stated the pacifism movement, but she's more and more not doing anything, feeling less guilty about not stopping the violence... she's becoming more Cylon, hence the black.  When the two of them were together, way back in the beginning of the series, they both moved each other away from Human and Cylon into somewhere in the middle.  Without each other, they were less than they were together - Baltar too cold, Caprica too warm... and they lost touch with the race they were from.  Their visions of each other aren't some mysterious chip, it's their love calling for them to come back to the middle.  Now, they can't even touch each other, they can't even face each other, and their love is nothing more than fulfilliing carnal pleasure, a hallow shell of what it once was.</blockquote>

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