Fair enough about Zoe being her father's daughter. You think that Daniel abused her before? I don't know, she rather looked like a spoiled child but I may be wrong.
I think that Daniel partly excused his own behaviour to himself by saying out loud that his daughter isn't really there and the Cylon is just what is left of her for him. The outside scene is very interesting, he talks to the robot but it's like a soliloquy(and for Eric Stoltz it was!)and what he says to her sounds like he partly talks about himself. The scene even foreshadowed his final trick, the bluff about killing the dog, as Daniel mentioned a poker analogy. It was a game(both players being determined like sharks yet in pain at the same time), and again it echoed what Sam told Joseph. And to paraphrase him, I'd say "how do you psychologically torture your child? You think it isn't real, it's a game. You focus on the target".
Yes the boardroom scene was creepy and horrible, but also brilliant and ambiguous and I loved it!
I'm afraid that I'm very sentimental with animals. They are sentient and the animal you love becomes a person to you, you know his/her character, you grow attached to him/her; and I think it's normal to care about your pets more than you'd care about human beings whom you don't know. It's just a matter of love. Zoe is supposed to have loved that dog, to care about Ceasar...
When Daniel talked about putting a new sentient race in slavery, it was morally wrong from our point of view (ancient Greeks wouldn't have flinched), but it was a general talk about robots that didn't exist yet (like the Scoobies talking about exterminating vampires in season 4 and yet Willow didn't want to let Spike commit suicide because they knew him). I doubt he would sell the U-87 now, nor would he use it as a personal slave.
Daniel and Zoe know each other, but they also have misconceptions about each other. Daniel still believes that his daughter was the one who set the bomb, the one responsible for a mass murder and her own death; Zoe keeps imagining the worst from her father (like creating Tamara's avatar for sexual purpose and then deserting her), partly because he is her father and she is a defiant teenager, partly because she was STO and he embodies what the STO kids hate.
It is an interesting take on family relationships.
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I think that Daniel partly excused his own behaviour to himself by saying out loud that his daughter isn't really there and the Cylon is just what is left of her for him. The outside scene is very interesting, he talks to the robot but it's like a soliloquy(and for Eric Stoltz it was!)and what he says to her sounds like he partly talks about himself. The scene even foreshadowed his final trick, the bluff about killing the dog, as Daniel mentioned a poker analogy. It was a game(both players being determined like sharks yet in pain at the same time), and again it echoed what Sam told Joseph. And to paraphrase him, I'd say "how do you psychologically torture your child? You think it isn't real, it's a game. You focus on the target".
Yes the boardroom scene was creepy and horrible, but also brilliant and ambiguous and I loved it!
I'm afraid that I'm very sentimental with animals. They are sentient and the animal you love becomes a person to you, you know his/her character, you grow attached to him/her; and I think it's normal to care about your pets more than you'd care about human beings whom you don't know. It's just a matter of love. Zoe is supposed to have loved that dog, to care about Ceasar...
When Daniel talked about putting a new sentient race in slavery, it was morally wrong from our point of view (ancient Greeks wouldn't have flinched), but it was a general talk about robots that didn't exist yet (like the Scoobies talking about exterminating vampires in season 4 and yet Willow didn't want to let Spike commit suicide because they knew him). I doubt he would sell the U-87 now, nor would he use it as a personal slave.
Daniel and Zoe know each other, but they also have misconceptions about each other. Daniel still believes that his daughter was the one who set the bomb, the one responsible for a mass murder and her own death; Zoe keeps imagining the worst from her father (like creating Tamara's avatar for sexual purpose and then deserting her), partly because he is her father and she is a defiant teenager, partly because she was STO and he embodies what the STO kids hate.
It is an interesting take on family relationships.