Caprica is The Walhalla !

Just mix my obsession with Caprica with my love for opera and the fact that I saw Das Rheingold at the Opera Bastille on friday evening and that I have been listening to Wagner's music ever since, and you get this crazy post. Just imagine the specific connections I would have drawn if I had seen Die Walküre (I will in June though) the day before I watched "The Ghost in The Machine" and reviewed it!

Anyway, I do see a parallel between Daniel/Zoe and the beautiful finale of Die Walküre. Daniel is Wotan !

Both daughters are not only daughters but also convenient warriors: Brünnhilde is the chief of the Walkyries, Wotan's children, whom he's gathered in Valhalla as an army of warriors who will be able to defend him against Alberich's power; Zoe is the first Cylon, and the cylons have been designed for the defense of Caprica. Both fathers are merciless and loving at once; they can't really let their beloved daughter go. Both daughters were defiant to the father's authority and are doomed to loneliness, trapped. Both father use fire to control their daughters, to "protect" them!

At the end of the Die Walküre, Wotan plunges Brünnhilde into a profound sleep (Daniel  apologized for shutting the U-87 down at the beginning of the episode!) and then summons the fire god, Loge, to the rock (the outside place in which Daniel set the U-87 on fire was rocky!) to surround the sleeping mortal , since she is a Valkyrie no more, with a ring of magic fire which only a hero "freer than the god" and who does not fear Wotan's spear can penetrate.

Caprica before the fall is the Walhalla before Götterdammerung....

I can't help putting in here a video of Wotan's farewell for it's probably the most moving thing Wagner ever composed.