The Cylons are coming!

[Dr Strangelove]

At the start of the mini-series it says that the Cylons had been defeated in a war and were imprisoned on one planet. The girl spy who sabotaged the Colonial military computer system is seen smooth talking her way out of the blockade.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
At the start of the mini-series it says that the Cylons had been defeated in a war and were imprisoned on one planet. The girl spy who sabotaged the Colonial military computer system is seen smooth talking her way out of the blockade.

That's not what happened at all. At the start of the miniseries, it says that the Cylons revolted against their human masters and a long, bloody war ensued that was a stalemate. Finally, they reached peace terms that the Cylons would leave the 12 colonies. They did so, completely disappearing. A space station was built in neutral territory for the purposes of diplomatic meetings. Every year, the humans would send a representative, but the Cylons never would show up. For 40 years, nobody heard a thing from the Cylons.

The scene you reference was the female Cylon showing up at one of the yearly "summits," which shocks the human, since he had been expecting no one, as usual. The Cylons then blow up the station, which is the start of their attack on the 12 Colonies.

[hexagonian]

After watching both of the two episodes tonight, I think I can say that I found my new Babylon 5

I wish I had rewatched the miniseries last Wed night to refresh my memory on some of the fine points in the story arc. (for one, I forgot about Boomer's Cylonism...)

[DRoseDARs]

Spoiler:

That she defied her programming not once but twice was interesting. First, she fought against lying about the positive reading, managing to suggest a do-over of the flyby then fought the urge to blow the ship before it oculd report back to the fleet.

[DRoseDARs]

Spoiler:

Also, it'll be interesting to see how long they make Helo survive planetwide nuclear fallout on Caprica more than a few days...

[BeBMan]

Any news about how the successful the new BSG is? How much seasons are planned? I remember that "Space - Above and Beyond" was cancelled despite (IMO) being excellent.....

[Dr Strangelove]

Only time will tell. I was very pleased with the first two episodes.

[SpencerH]

AAAARGH! I had friends turn up 5 min into the show and the charter dvr wont record. I'll have to wait till sunday to see the show (and visit this thread).

You were right Boris, even from those 5 min it was clear that the religious aspect was gonna be important to the plot.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
There were indications given in the movie and on the website that the Cylons fighters aren't manned anyway, but remote controlled--although, what that means wrt to a robotic race, I'm not sure. But if there is a difference to the Cylons, then it would explain why they are willing to use fighters as fodder while the manned capital ships stand off.

I don't think we can say that the Cylons don't care about their losses. Considering that the plot of the show is going to make them out to be religious zealots, there isn't any reason (so far) to think that they have no regard for their own casualties.

The fighters are quite expendable, but they are expending them for nothing. I'm watching the show, and either the base ships have resupply ouposts all along the Galactica's course so far, or they are slowly using up their fighters and missiles and eventually will have to give up chase on the Galactica.

By the way, the fighters probably are manned, just not by a bipedal robot, just a cpu. No point in doing remote control if you can make a fairly small intelligence unit that will have to be somewhere. I don't think that they have instant communications so controlling ships that were lightminutes away from the fleet would get problematic(and the signal would be a dead giveaway for where the ships were). Whatever is in Baltar's head is probably the same deal, hedonism bot stuck a chip with a version of her on it.

Gepap: They only have a zero chance of survival if the Cylons hunt them down and kill them, otherwise they will explore,expand, expoit, and exterminate.

as for the religion thing, I think that is psy-ops more then anything else. just wierd all the meat bags out.

[Dr Strangelove]

No, I think that the master CPU is referred to as "god". The female torturing Baltar seems to be trying to convert Baltar so that they can use him. Of course, it's also possible that their is nothing planted in Baltar's head and he's simply goin mad.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Are you talking about Battlestar Galactica?

The one where Starbuck and Boomer are now women?

Bleah.

Yeah its hard to picture a womanizing Starbuck when Starbuck's a female, but I'll wait for the "hotter" scenes later in the series.

That, and I'm still kinda disappointed in the fact that they ditched some of the original and unique story plots and went with generic common themes for the new series.

The dark theme over the campy theme is an improvement though.

[chequita guevara]

I missed the movie and the miniseries. I saw the two episodes last night though. Wow!

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Whoha


The fighters are quite expendable, but they are expending them for nothing. I'm watching the show, and either the base ships have resupply ouposts all along the Galactica's course so far, or they are slowly using up their fighters and missiles and eventually will have to give up chase on the Galactica.

As big as the are, they could easily have processing plants that refine minerals from asteroids and ship debris and then reprocess it into metal and components and fully construct replacement ships.

The suckers are bigger than NYC for crissake!

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

The suckers are bigger than NYC for crissake!

How did you determine that?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Whoha
The fighters are quite expendable, but they are expending them for nothing. I'm watching the show, and either the base ships have resupply ouposts all along the Galactica's course so far, or they are slowly using up their fighters and missiles and eventually will have to give up chase on the Galactica.

On the BSG website, it mentions the possibility that the base stars can manufacture their fighter complement themselves, as GhengisFarb says. It also speculates on the fighters being dronned and not manned.

as for the religion thing, I think that is psy-ops more then anything else. just wierd all the meat bags out.

No, it's been discussed in interviews, the Cylons are true believers. They very much do believe they are god's chosen ones.