During “Exodus,” Three walks along her own spiritual journey after she has a dream about the Cylon/human baby and visiting a human Oracle. We see her walking through the tent city of New Caprica City, where she sees the Oracle tent from her dream and enters. The Oracle recognizes her and invites her in. She tells Three that “Zeus sees all. Sees you, number Three. Sees your pain. Your destiny. All the Gods weep for you….”
The Oracle tells Three that she is aware of her dreams. This catches Three’s attention, who then kneels in front of the Oracle, as though she is in church. When we kneel, we talk with God, often hoping for a message from God. In accordance to this submission, Three receives a message, via the Oracle: “I have a message for you from the one you worship. He speaks through me to you just as he speaks in your dreams. The message is…the fruit born of two peoples is alive. A child named after the wife and sister of the all-knowing Zeus. Hera lives.” Three gently tells the Oracle that she is wrong. The Oracle continues to tell her that she will hold the child in her arms, and “you’ll know for the first time what it is to feel true love. But you’ll lose everything you’ve done here.” This news is as bitter as the camalla the Oracle uses to have these visions, as the Oracle recognizes that Three does not know what it means to love and be loved. The news is also bitter because it means that Sharon’s trust in Adama and Roslin may be in jeopardy.
Later, Three confronts Sharon in the lockbox room as she is performing the launch key heist. Three tries to tell Sharon about her daughter and that she has been betrayed by the very people she is trying to save. Three tells Sharon about her dreams and even acknowledges to her that these dreams made her “question [her] faith. Made [her] question God.” While Three tries to tell Sharon the truth, Sharon speaks over her or interrupts her letting her know that she is not listening, that she doesn’t believe her, and, finally, that Adama would not lie to her. Her faith in Adama, in Zeus, has been unwavering, while Three’s faith in the Cylon God has wavered. It was a human that brought Three back on track with her faith in God.
Three: There is no Zeus. No other god but God.It seems that Three is searching for something, searching for an understanding of her own destiny, searching for confirmation of the Cylon call to preserve what is yet to come (in the form of Hera), searching for God. She winds her way into the Oracle’s tent, unsure of why she was there, but seemingly looking for answers. The Oracle is aware of these questions Three is haunted by, but when she tells Three that she knows of Three’s more agnostic slant on theology, Three denies it and starts to look for ways out of this conversation, out of this tent. Again, could she deny the Oracles observations because she’s afraid of the Cylon God? Or could she be afraid that admitting she has questions about God would undermine the whole Cylon occupation, which had been set up as an opportunity to bring the word of God to the humans.
Oracle: Well, you don’t
believe that anymore. You don’t know what you believe and that is why you’re
here.
Three: It’s not true. I don’t even know why I’m here. This is the
stupidest thing I ever did.
The Oracle tells Three that she is aware of her dreams. This catches Three’s attention, who then kneels in front of the Oracle, as though she is in church. When we kneel, we talk with God, often hoping for a message from God. In accordance to this submission, Three receives a message, via the Oracle: “I have a message for you from the one you worship. He speaks through me to you just as he speaks in your dreams. The message is…the fruit born of two peoples is alive. A child named after the wife and sister of the all-knowing Zeus. Hera lives.” Three gently tells the Oracle that she is wrong. The Oracle continues to tell her that she will hold the child in her arms, and “you’ll know for the first time what it is to feel true love. But you’ll lose everything you’ve done here.” This news is as bitter as the camalla the Oracle uses to have these visions, as the Oracle recognizes that Three does not know what it means to love and be loved. The news is also bitter because it means that Sharon’s trust in Adama and Roslin may be in jeopardy.
Later, Three confronts Sharon in the lockbox room as she is performing the launch key heist. Three tries to tell Sharon about her daughter and that she has been betrayed by the very people she is trying to save. Three tells Sharon about her dreams and even acknowledges to her that these dreams made her “question [her] faith. Made [her] question God.” While Three tries to tell Sharon the truth, Sharon speaks over her or interrupts her letting her know that she is not listening, that she doesn’t believe her, and, finally, that Adama would not lie to her. Her faith in Adama, in Zeus, has been unwavering, while Three’s faith in the Cylon God has wavered. It was a human that brought Three back on track with her faith in God.
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