Analysis
In Moore's view, Sharon inserting a cable into her arm and taking control of Galactica illustrates a difference in the Battlestar Galactica universe between humans and Cylons. Though Cylons choose to appear human out of respect for the form they believe to have been created by God, they are essentially mechanical beings.
Jacob Clifton of Television Without Pity expands on the human-machine dichotomy:
You've got this show about man vs. machine, and they're both using machines in the conflict, right, but then you've got a man in love with a machine, mourning that relationship using this fourth machine, and then attempting to remedy the non-machine void that the romance has left in him by building a fifth machine . Which itself becomes a symbol of the future of the fleet, not to mention a tribute to a completely unrelated person. During all of which, the big machine they all live in becomes a traitor, and they can only be saved by the original bad guy machine, who's now a POW and having a human-machine baby.Moore compares the Vipers' destruction of the Cylon ships to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot in World War II.
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