My apologies if this has been discussed before. I did some backreading and didn’t see it anywhere.
I started thinking during this past episode that if I were Athena, I’d be projecting all over the place instead of watching my evil twin sister sleep with my husband in plain view of me after attacking me and leaving me in a closet. Then I started thinking about the sewage ship and wondering if projection takes care of bad smells as well as boring scenery. And that led to me wondering, does she even project anymore?
I’m thinking no. Maybe when she first got onboard the Galactica and was stuck in jail all day, but I think she’s too much like the humans now. She’s pretty much decided to live as one of them, and whenever you look at her interactions and advice re: Cylons (prime example is Leoben on the sewer ship and how highly suspicious she is of him) she sometimes seems to be among the most anti-Cylon of the group. Maybe she’s eschewing everything Cylon to kind of assure the humans that yes, she’s most assuredly on their side, projection included even if it’s only something that she’s aware of?
And if I were to admit to being the romantic sort, I’d say that she doesn’t need to as long as she has Helo and Hera. (I’m most enthusiastically not the romantic sort, so that suggestion never happened. YOU NEVER SAW IT.)
So what do y’all think?