stephensmat

Herc has officially become a pain in the neck.

"What does Control look like?" is the running gag of the season, but if this court can't get her to appear, the people who can nab anybody from anywhere in the galaxy, to say nothing of reducing the oracle to "Oh...my..." then nobody can, and there's little point to speculation.

Frankly, if she's nothing by a 'Ghost in the Machine' after all, I doubt it matters, because if Deck sees her homeworld as 'Heaven' in his head, then there's no limits to where that can go.

I agree with the idea of humanity being put on trial. The scene seemed similar to the theme of 'The Abyss' with the mighty aliens watching the world, deciding wether or not to flush the world with tidal waves.

Exhibit A is Herc.
Exhibit B is Deck.

Thing is, now that we've established that Earth actually attacks other worlds as it wishes, and can blow up whole solar systems, then sooner or later the FarReach Fleet will have to do something. That'll be interesting.

If Control is a 'Deus Machina' (God Machine) Then she'll do the logical thing and send Deck to fight. If she's the guardian angel type, she'll send him elsewhre so that he doesnt have to take on his old team again.

It's gonna be interesting.

planish

Then she has no appearance, unless she chooses to generate one at some time, much like she generates her voice.

Control very pointedly avoided anwering the direct order to state her species and place of origin.

I still favour the AI hypothesis. I'm sure she's more substantial than Dr. Baltar's Innerl Number Six.

Undrave

But then the question becomes...who created Control?

planish

Why, um, er ... these people, with contributions from the Far Reach Skunk Works division.
Not much is really known about them, since it's a black budget operation.

Undrave

Control is a Galaxy wide version of Linux?

Pom Rania

I like Linux!

BTW, perjury makes Herc seem like even more of a jerk (that rhymes!) than trying to kill Deck.