concept
The battle of the gods and the giants, which Cameron takes from Plato's Sophist as the classical name for the episode's "battle of archives." In Greek — giganto, giant; machia, battle — it names an ontological war, one archive of the real against another. Cameron uses it to lift Bob's conflict between iON and the Tech Body out of current events and onto the plane where different senses of reality contend.
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Enters as the classical name for the episode's battle of archives — Plato's war of gods and giants, which Cameron sets against Bob's iON-versus-Tech-Body to make the conflict an ontological one
Cameron names the battle of archives with Plato's Gigantomachia — the war of gods and giants — casting the iON/Tech Body conflict as an ontological contest between rival senses of the real.
"In Plato, this is called the Gigantomachia, the battle of the gods and the giants."