But don't you think that Daniel wouldn't have used blanks if the U-87 (not Zoe's mind) was able to detect the fake? He made the robot, he knows better than anyone what he can do or not. If you rewatch the scene, Zoe isn't calm at all, just before Daniel starts counting, while she's already holding the gun, she is freaking out. And then he starts counting and she is determined.
But it could be just a way to trick the audience...
I may be wrong, but I do think that Zoe was just trying to excuse her behaviour afterwards, a bit like Daniel probably excused his own actions, in advance, when he said to the cylon (but he was actually convincing himself IMO hence what he says about making choices and mistakes), outside the lab, that he knew the robot wasn't really his daughter, that Zoe wasn't really there just what was left of her to him.
I wasn't rooting for anyone, but certainly not for Zoe to kill the dog!
Daniel was wrong, what he did was psychological torture, we were in a very grey area there, but I sort of "understood" him and his twisted logics(using "the cylon treatment" because it was "the cylon treatment" that he received from her). He was aiming at something that he believed to be the best for all(including her), knowing that the means were an issue (hard for his robot daughter as he warned her)but focusing on the target only, just as Sam told Joseph. How do you abuse you cylon child? Just think that this isn't real, focus on the target.
There is no hero, no good guy always doing the right thing on the show. There is no Helo.
They are all morally challenged, and I find Daniel's contradictions to be the most fascinating. And the way he behaved in the episode pointed out how much one can hurt the people they love the most.
The fact that Zoe refused to look at him and talk to him was just teenage stubborness in my book, it reminded me of the pilot and the way she behaved with her parents. And shooting the innocent dog only to make her point and not to give in made me want to slap her avatar! I would have prefered her to shoot Daniel but it would have mean "giving in".
And the way she complained about Daniel's first test, when chatting in the v-world with Lacy, saying that her father would use her and forgetting conveniently how she's been using Lacy, and Philomon...it doesn't make me want to root for her character at all. Actually it's only when Daniel taunted her outside with cruel words and she was close to cry, that I warmed up and almost sided with her, but I could see Daniel's pain as well in the scene. It was ugly and heartbreaking.
On the other hand, her shooting Ceasar could be a clue that she is becoming a cylon indeed. She is becoming her own persona, not the "original Zoe", not daddy's obedient girl, not the defiant girl who was flying away and died in the Meglev and not Zoe's avatar anymore...which could be interesting, I guess.
Anyway, I prefer the adults on the show and Zoe has never been a character that resonates with me, I would rather be rooting for Lacy who seems more balanced and more interesting despite not being in the complicated situation Zoe is.
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Date: 2010-03-21 12:12 am (UTC)But it could be just a way to trick the audience...
I may be wrong, but I do think that Zoe was just trying to excuse her behaviour afterwards, a bit like Daniel probably excused his own actions, in advance, when he said to the cylon (but he was actually convincing himself IMO hence what he says about making choices and mistakes), outside the lab, that he knew the robot wasn't really his daughter, that Zoe wasn't really there just what was left of her to him.
I wasn't rooting for anyone, but certainly not for Zoe to kill the dog!
Daniel was wrong, what he did was psychological torture, we were in a very grey area there, but I sort of "understood" him and his twisted logics(using "the cylon treatment" because it was "the cylon treatment" that he received from her). He was aiming at something that he believed to be the best for all(including her), knowing that the means were an issue (hard for his robot daughter as he warned her)but focusing on the target only, just as Sam told Joseph.
How do you abuse you cylon child? Just think that this isn't real, focus on the target.
There is no hero, no good guy always doing the right thing on the show. There is no Helo.
They are all morally challenged, and I find Daniel's contradictions to be the most fascinating. And the way he behaved in the episode pointed out how much one can hurt the people they love the most.
The fact that Zoe refused to look at him and talk to him was just teenage stubborness in my book, it reminded me of the pilot and the way she behaved with her parents. And shooting the innocent dog only to make her point and not to give in made me want to slap her avatar! I would have prefered her to shoot Daniel but it would have mean "giving in".
And the way she complained about Daniel's first test, when chatting in the v-world with Lacy, saying that her father would use her and forgetting conveniently how she's been using Lacy, and Philomon...it doesn't make me want to root for her character at all. Actually it's only when Daniel taunted her outside with cruel words and she was close to cry, that I warmed up and almost sided with her, but I could see Daniel's pain as well in the scene. It was ugly and heartbreaking.
On the other hand, her shooting Ceasar could be a clue that she is becoming a cylon indeed. She is becoming her own persona, not the "original Zoe", not daddy's obedient girl, not the defiant girl who was flying away and died in the Meglev and not Zoe's avatar anymore...which could be interesting, I guess.
Anyway, I prefer the adults on the show and Zoe has never been a character that resonates with me, I would rather be rooting for Lacy who seems more balanced and more interesting despite not being in the complicated situation Zoe is.