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Cylons
The Cylons in the BSG remake (that is, the current series) are robots that were orginally created by man in order to serve human beings - do their dirty work, so to speak, but they got a bit too big for their boots and rebelled in the first Cylon War. Those guys looked like this:
and not like this:
It lasted a long time, and a bunch of ships were built lo-fi to counter the problem of the Cylons being able to take down systems that were connected electronically. One of those was the Galactica. An armistace was declared at the end of that war, and an outpost was set up in case the Cylons ever wanted to talk. A human emissary would show up, but the Cylons ignored it for, like, EVER, until suddenly this stunner shows up:
And she's all "ARE YOU ALIVE? PROVE IT!" and does things to the human until the whole place is blown up. Turns out the Cylons have been developing 12 models of Cylon who LOOK LIKE US OMG! It took a lot of tries to get there, and the first attempts weren't too successful and need to stay submerged in liquid all the time, but they control the Cylon ships:
Back to these twelve humanoid models: They could be anyone, and there are MULTIPLE COPIES!. Well, eleven models could be, we already know that the hottie in the red dress is one of them, precisely model Six, which is why when we see this guy:
giving another copy of her the codes to the ENTIRE SECURITY OF THE HUMAN RACE (not a brilliant idea to entrust him with the in the first place, really) we're all NO GAIUS NOOOO! But, you know, we get used to that. So then the Cylons get their genocide on, because according to their One True God-based religion they think the humans are a bunch of flawed shmucks (which, if you're taking Gaius Baltar as your example, you've got a point) and need to be wiped out. They're like the angels in Dogma, but without wings, and the girls are hot instead of the guys (don't kill me CKR fans.) Oh, and they succeed. So nothing like the angels, really, although if their god turns out to be Alanis Morrissette, I'm converting. When the femme fatale in the red dress saves Gaius, she ends up becoming a somewhat violent head trip that he sees ALL THE TIME right through the series, and who must be pretty ripe by now because she never ever changes her clothes.
Anyway, they destroy most of humanity, we see a couple of the Cylons doing nasty things, and then at the end of the miniseries we find out that this also-stunning awesome pilot lass we've come to know and love:
(if you like that sort of thing), is - SHOCKER -
A CYLON! Only she doesn't know it! That's right, kiddlywinks, they're sleeper agents and there's a whole heap of them. So now we know a few of the human-looking models:
and they're organic, biologically almost impossible to discern from the rest of us (except their spines GLOW RED during sex, which, you'd think that'd be noticeable - I guess the humans of the BSG 'verse aren't that fond of threesomes, or doggie style, or...mirrored ceilings.)
Things proceed, as things are wont to do. The Cylons further impede the war effort, but the question the show poses becomes not how to destroy the Cylons, but why do the humans deserve to survive when they don't? The humans attempt genocide on the Cylons at least once in retaliation. Anyway, slowly more of the 12 human-looking models are revealed, until we know seven:
This lot can't breed with each other, so they set up a plan to breed with whatever humans they can scrounge up. They set up camps to impregnate women, but the first real success comes when one of the models revealed in the pilot, the Eights, is sent to spy on and then INEVITABLY, OF COURSE falls in love with a human:
and he knocks her up and then FALLS IN LOVE BACK and they play happy families and go back to the fleet, where she ends up fighting ON THE SIDE OF THE HUMANS. Crazy, I know. They have a baby girl, Hera, the first known cylon-human baby:
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phoenixothon
But I digress. Though they can't breed, the Cylon modles can resurrect; their consciousness is downloaded into new bodies as long as the ship with the new bodies on it is in reach of their...consciousness. I apologise for that sentence. There are, however, five more models - the Final Five - who neither the humans nore the Cylons know about at this point. The Seven were created to not think about the Final Five, although one model's curiosity got the better of her.
Xena, Warrior Cylon, went off in search of their identities. Just as she discovered the identity of the Five, she was boxed, meaning her entire model's consciousness was put away so the other lot didn't have to think about it.
The humans settle on some backwater crappy planet, but then the Cylons arrive and decide to take over - through in-fighting, changing power structures, and some models of Cylons having different experiences with humans, certain Cylon models have decided to try to get along with the humans. It doesn't end so well for the Cylon occupying forces, because there's revolution and most of the humans get away.
This leaves some models even more determined to destroy humanity completely, and the others to take a new angle. Eventually, the in-fighting comes to a head. There's civil war, with most of the good-looking models, apart from Boomer - you remember, that girl at the beginning - taking offence when the other models decide to strip back the intelligence of the cylon ships, essentially doing what the humans wanted to do to the Cylons in the first place. Boomer sides against the rest of her model, breaking the tied vote. Civil war breaks out, and the pretty side decides to form an alliance with the humans in order to destroy the resurrection hub, rendering the Cylons mortal. The prize? To go to Earth with the humans and settle there, the location of which is apparently going to be revealed by these guys!
That's right, ladies and not-so-ladies, four of the enigmatic Final Five have discovered each other through song. Specifically, All Along the Watchtower, because this wasn't all confusing enough as it is. These four, all in vital positions among the humans, have made a pact to stay in hiding. They include the single most anti-Cylon asshole you could ever imagine, a human rights fighter, a hot guy, and this girl who I didn't even instantly recognise when she joined the others, but who works for the president and has become kind of rampantly evil. So now they're all grappling with the knowledge that they're Cylons, but there's one more model we don't know about, and it's pretty much the question constantly in the back of everyone's minds at this point. Who is the last Cylon?
But what does all this mean? In essence, Battlestar Galactica has been bringing us closer and closer to the conclusion that humans, in creating Cylons, recreated themselves. The Cylons are making the same mistakes as the humans, all in the name of religion, and the two races are now coming closer and closer together. It questions what it means to be human - is it logic? Intelligence? Religion? Cylons are a mirror for humanity. Although, I still feel kind of wronged by the fact that Chief is a Cylon. Especially with what's happened to him since he's found it. It feels...mean-spirited. Also, and I know I mentioned it before, Cylon women are hot.
Green Queen
The Cylons in the BSG remake (that is, the current series) are robots that were orginally created by man in order to serve human beings - do their dirty work, so to speak, but they got a bit too big for their boots and rebelled in the first Cylon War. Those guys looked like this:
and not like this:
It lasted a long time, and a bunch of ships were built lo-fi to counter the problem of the Cylons being able to take down systems that were connected electronically. One of those was the Galactica. An armistace was declared at the end of that war, and an outpost was set up in case the Cylons ever wanted to talk. A human emissary would show up, but the Cylons ignored it for, like, EVER, until suddenly this stunner shows up:
And she's all "ARE YOU ALIVE? PROVE IT!" and does things to the human until the whole place is blown up. Turns out the Cylons have been developing 12 models of Cylon who LOOK LIKE US OMG! It took a lot of tries to get there, and the first attempts weren't too successful and need to stay submerged in liquid all the time, but they control the Cylon ships:
Back to these twelve humanoid models: They could be anyone, and there are MULTIPLE COPIES!. Well, eleven models could be, we already know that the hottie in the red dress is one of them, precisely model Six, which is why when we see this guy:
giving another copy of her the codes to the ENTIRE SECURITY OF THE HUMAN RACE (not a brilliant idea to entrust him with the in the first place, really) we're all NO GAIUS NOOOO! But, you know, we get used to that. So then the Cylons get their genocide on, because according to their One True God-based religion they think the humans are a bunch of flawed shmucks (which, if you're taking Gaius Baltar as your example, you've got a point) and need to be wiped out. They're like the angels in Dogma, but without wings, and the girls are hot instead of the guys (don't kill me CKR fans.) Oh, and they succeed. So nothing like the angels, really, although if their god turns out to be Alanis Morrissette, I'm converting. When the femme fatale in the red dress saves Gaius, she ends up becoming a somewhat violent head trip that he sees ALL THE TIME right through the series, and who must be pretty ripe by now because she never ever changes her clothes.
Anyway, they destroy most of humanity, we see a couple of the Cylons doing nasty things, and then at the end of the miniseries we find out that this also-stunning awesome pilot lass we've come to know and love:
(if you like that sort of thing), is - SHOCKER -
A CYLON! Only she doesn't know it! That's right, kiddlywinks, they're sleeper agents and there's a whole heap of them. So now we know a few of the human-looking models:
and they're organic, biologically almost impossible to discern from the rest of us (except their spines GLOW RED during sex, which, you'd think that'd be noticeable - I guess the humans of the BSG 'verse aren't that fond of threesomes, or doggie style, or...mirrored ceilings.)
Things proceed, as things are wont to do. The Cylons further impede the war effort, but the question the show poses becomes not how to destroy the Cylons, but why do the humans deserve to survive when they don't? The humans attempt genocide on the Cylons at least once in retaliation. Anyway, slowly more of the 12 human-looking models are revealed, until we know seven:
This lot can't breed with each other, so they set up a plan to breed with whatever humans they can scrounge up. They set up camps to impregnate women, but the first real success comes when one of the models revealed in the pilot, the Eights, is sent to spy on and then INEVITABLY, OF COURSE falls in love with a human:
and he knocks her up and then FALLS IN LOVE BACK and they play happy families and go back to the fleet, where she ends up fighting ON THE SIDE OF THE HUMANS. Crazy, I know. They have a baby girl, Hera, the first known cylon-human baby:
(cap by
phoenixothonBut I digress. Though they can't breed, the Cylon modles can resurrect; their consciousness is downloaded into new bodies as long as the ship with the new bodies on it is in reach of their...consciousness. I apologise for that sentence. There are, however, five more models - the Final Five - who neither the humans nore the Cylons know about at this point. The Seven were created to not think about the Final Five, although one model's curiosity got the better of her.
Xena, Warrior Cylon, went off in search of their identities. Just as she discovered the identity of the Five, she was boxed, meaning her entire model's consciousness was put away so the other lot didn't have to think about it.
The humans settle on some backwater crappy planet, but then the Cylons arrive and decide to take over - through in-fighting, changing power structures, and some models of Cylons having different experiences with humans, certain Cylon models have decided to try to get along with the humans. It doesn't end so well for the Cylon occupying forces, because there's revolution and most of the humans get away.
This leaves some models even more determined to destroy humanity completely, and the others to take a new angle. Eventually, the in-fighting comes to a head. There's civil war, with most of the good-looking models, apart from Boomer - you remember, that girl at the beginning - taking offence when the other models decide to strip back the intelligence of the cylon ships, essentially doing what the humans wanted to do to the Cylons in the first place. Boomer sides against the rest of her model, breaking the tied vote. Civil war breaks out, and the pretty side decides to form an alliance with the humans in order to destroy the resurrection hub, rendering the Cylons mortal. The prize? To go to Earth with the humans and settle there, the location of which is apparently going to be revealed by these guys!
That's right, ladies and not-so-ladies, four of the enigmatic Final Five have discovered each other through song. Specifically, All Along the Watchtower, because this wasn't all confusing enough as it is. These four, all in vital positions among the humans, have made a pact to stay in hiding. They include the single most anti-Cylon asshole you could ever imagine, a human rights fighter, a hot guy, and this girl who I didn't even instantly recognise when she joined the others, but who works for the president and has become kind of rampantly evil. So now they're all grappling with the knowledge that they're Cylons, but there's one more model we don't know about, and it's pretty much the question constantly in the back of everyone's minds at this point. Who is the last Cylon?
But what does all this mean? In essence, Battlestar Galactica has been bringing us closer and closer to the conclusion that humans, in creating Cylons, recreated themselves. The Cylons are making the same mistakes as the humans, all in the name of religion, and the two races are now coming closer and closer together. It questions what it means to be human - is it logic? Intelligence? Religion? Cylons are a mirror for humanity. Although, I still feel kind of wronged by the fact that Chief is a Cylon. Especially with what's happened to him since he's found it. It feels...mean-spirited. Also, and I know I mentioned it before, Cylon women are hot.
Green Queen
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Helo is so hot that robots fll in love with him :p
I love that "The Cylons are Back" picture!
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I always wondered about that. I makes you question the BSG sex-life a little.
*sigh* Our cast is so pretty.
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Those shoes six is wearing in that last shot look really painful, theyre messing her toes up :S (TAF has destroyed my brain).
What about head gaius?
And why did they have to make the athiest cylon an asshole? Are they trying to say something there? :P
Also is that shop called "Bloor meat market"???
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