whoa

I should write about BSG all the time! The post I wrote earlier has nearly doubled my traffic because so many people are doing Google searches on "Dreilide Thrace," Kara Thrace's father. (We see Dreilide Thrace's face in profile on the cover of the album that Helo gives to Kara; does it resemble the face of the nameless musician Kara talks to?)

Let's assume Kara is some sort of Cylon. It's possible that she had a mother and a father (her mother was the subject of an episode in Season 3-- the same episode in which Kara "dies," if I'm not mistaken), if Kara is a Cylon similar to the Final Five, who appear to have achieved biological reproduction.

But Kara's memories of her mother may include false elements, because those memories all pertain to life on the Twelve Colonies. If Kara is a Final Five-type Cylon, she's not really from the Colonies: she's a plant, with implanted memories. Unless her military mother and pianist father-- both also presumably Cylon, and possibly unaware of their own natures-- were actually born or sent to the Colonies, it's unlikely that Kara is herself a true-born Colonial.

With only three episodes to go, we've got an interesting ride ahead of us.


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