although "How long has Illusive Man been indoctrinated? Does it matter?" showed what potential was there
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(crack theory that a Reaper chunk fell on America in like 1998 and that's his origin story)
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indoctrination could've been much more subtle and sinister but too hard to pull off writing wise
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like how on BSG they backed off REALLY HARD on "Anyone can be a Cylon" paranoia
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And then backed into it in a way that made minimal sense in BSG
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yeah the Final Five reveal was a peak level "The fuck do I care" reveal
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"anyone can be a robot, in the sense that we mean biologically indistinguishable from modern humans"
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in fact the backstory weakened it even more bc these "Cylons" aren't even Cylons
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they're just humans with resurrection tech who I guess maybe started off as AIs at some point
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but there's no direct connection at all between them and the Cylons the humans oppressed as slaves
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in fact it's just a different set of humans who also oppress them as slaves
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man those Centurions are poor stupid rubes
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(cf the key flaw w the heresy the heretic geth, which is that the Reapers have never actually helped them at all)
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