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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:08:22 PM EDT
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:11:02 PM EDT
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By your command
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:12:51 PM EDT
[#2]
Similar to a Brain Bug is always thought
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:15:29 PM EDT
[Last Edit: skink]
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:16:04 PM EDT
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I guess I just didn’t get into ot that much.
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IN, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:17:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By skink: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/139520/GFMDVcXWAAAv_hG_jpg_large_jpg-3197137.JPG I wish she had been on the original Battlestar, would've been even more awesome. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:18:24 PM EDT
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Well, it depends. In the original series it was kept vague. But in the prequel to the reboot series it's actually very clear.
The cylons are all violently batshit insane, even towards each other because they were all copied off the mental platform of a violentely insane and quite terroristic teenage girl. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:18:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By blue2golf: I wish she had been on the original Battlestar, would've been even more awesome. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By blue2golf: Originally Posted By skink: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/139520/GFMDVcXWAAAv_hG_jpg_large_jpg-3197137.JPG I wish she had been on the original Battlestar, would've been even more awesome. Changed it. Not feeling well and screwed up my space babes. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:19:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Gutter1000]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By skink: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/139520/dc09567cb699a20c4ceeb62e2ba6853e_jpg-3197140.JPG Hottie! And Athena! 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:30:30 PM EDT
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IIRC the 2 series had a little different backstory. In the original series, the Cylons were the product of a different race and they rebelled against it. In the new series, they were the product of the 12 colonies. The 13th colony had a parallel group of Cylons - with a slightly different shape. Then add that the skin jobs were Cylons created for the 12 colonies Cylons by the 13th colony final 5.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:32:13 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Yojimbo]
[#10]
Hmmm….I think the Cylons are here already…
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Posted: 4/24/2024 9:46:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Yojimbo: Hmmm….I think the Cylons are here already… https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1551445601-e1689957089349.jpg?crop=770px%2C22px%2C4987px%2C2795px&resize=681%2C383 How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! 😤 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:21:40 PM EDT
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In the book the original series was based on, the ancient Cylons were lizards. They created robots who then destroyed the lizard race. Imperious Leader was a robot based on an ancient Cylon leader.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:43:33 PM EDT
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One of the remakes that was vastly superior to the original.
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Posted: 4/24/2024 10:52:08 PM EDT
[#14]
 Can't find the pic of her in her flight compression suit. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:02:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Toasted: How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! 😤 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Toasted: Originally Posted By Yojimbo: Hmmm….I think the Cylons are here already… https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1551445601-e1689957089349.jpg?crop=770px%2C22px%2C4987px%2C2795px&resize=681%2C383 How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! 😤 Holy hell, way to totally disrespect the cylons with that fucking picture! |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:19:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dumak]
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The original cylons were a lizard race at war with humans. Then all the lizards died out with only one remaining.
That lone remaining cylon was Count Ibly either in lizard form or lizard robot form. The wreckage that they found was the Battlestar Pegasus. Ibly lead the Pegasus to their destruction after they separated from the fleet when the Pegasus took out the two base stars. Baltar figured it out when Ibly came to visit him in jail. Ibly was trying to destroy the humans after he destroyed the original cylons. Ibly broke the rule against directly interfering after he killed Apollo.Thats when the space angels showed up to punish him. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:45:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Well, it depends. In the original series it was kept vague. But in the prequel to the reboot series it's actually very clear. The cylons are all violently batshit insane, even towards each other because they were all copied off the mental platform of a violentely insane and quite terroristic teenage girl. .. Who somehow became an old man with severe mommy issues. |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:51:50 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By Gutter1000: ...a lizard? Interesting. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/338038/IMG_4404_jpeg-3197132.JPG Cylons were an alien race originally. Not man created like in the remake |
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:52:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Yojimbo: Hmmm….I think the Cylons are here already… https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1551445601-e1689957089349.jpg?crop=770px%2C22px%2C4987px%2C2795px&resize=681%2C383 
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:56:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By haveTwo: Holy hell, way to totally disrespect the cylons with that fucking picture! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By haveTwo: Originally Posted By Toasted: Originally Posted By Yojimbo: Hmmm .I think the Cylons are here already https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1551445601-e1689957089349.jpg?crop=770px%2C22px%2C4987px%2C2795px&resize=681%2C383 How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! Holy hell, way to totally disrespect the cylons with that fucking picture! |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/24/2024 11:57:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By centrarchidae: .. Who somehow became an old man with severe mommy issues. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By centrarchidae: Originally Posted By Hesperus: Well, it depends. In the original series it was kept vague. But in the prequel to the reboot series it's actually very clear. The cylons are all violently batshit insane, even towards each other because they were all copied off the mental platform of a violentely insane and quite terroristic teenage girl. .. Who somehow became an old man with severe mommy issues. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:03:36 AM EDT
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What really pissed me off about the reimagined series was all this buildup about the one cylon god. It was fascinating to see the robots as a monotheistic culture, and the colonies at a polytheistic culture, but did they ever pay it off? Nope. So much wasted potential.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:10:41 AM EDT
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The Imperious Leader resembles the reptilian species that created the Cylons to begin with, though it is entirely mechanical and has no organic components. Built with three distinct brains, the Imperious Leader possesses unparalleled computational power, making it an excellent strategist and commander. In the event that the Imperious Leader is destroyed, another is selected from an IL-series Cylon. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:27:23 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ronin72]
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There was a comic book done on the origins. This video explains it...
 Battlestar Galactica 1978 - Origin of the Cylons |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:35:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mcantu: the skinjobs were not from the same lineage as the toaster/Zoe cylons Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mcantu: Originally Posted By centrarchidae: Originally Posted By Hesperus: Well, it depends. In the original series it was kept vague. But in the prequel to the reboot series it's actually very clear. The cylons are all violently batshit insane, even towards each other because they were all copied off the mental platform of a violentely insane and quite terroristic teenage girl. .. Who somehow became an old man with severe mommy issues. Cylon 1 aka Cavill was technically from both lineages and this made him doubly insane. Essentially a biological entity, thrown into a mechanical body, then put back into a biological body again that he really did not want to go back to. He tried to treat his biological body as a mechanical body by cutting out his own ability to sleep after he had one too many nightmares about dog faced pony soldiers chasing him through yellow woods. The much ballyhooed Final 5 tried to create a perfected Cylon codenamed Daniel. This failed because of Cavill's sabotage. I'm tempted to think that Baltar was a version of Daniel. But this will never be definitively established. I don't think you're ever going to be able to establish a coherent motivation for why anyone would want to eradicate a sentient species that you've proven several times that you can live with beyond that they are evil to the core and very likely severely mentally ill. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:37:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MarkMustang: What really pissed me off about the reimagined series was all this buildup about the one cylon god. It was fascinating to see the robots as a monotheistic culture, and the colonies at a polytheistic culture, but did they ever pay it off? Nope. So much wasted potential. I don't see where they could have gone with that concept beyond where it ultimately wound up. These are some very complicated concepts that are simply beyond most writers abilities to tackle. But oh how they try sometimes... |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:40:57 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ronin72: There was a comic book done on the origins. This video explains it...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXmTEciA7MwOh yes, a slight error in programming.  The Simpsons - Krusty Doll Set To Evil |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:01:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GunLvrPHD: In the book the original series was based on, the ancient Cylons were lizards. They created robots who then destroyed the lizard race. Imperious Leader was a robot based on an ancient Cylon leader. Like AI is going to do to us in 10 years or so. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:09:29 AM EDT
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Weird to see this thread, I just started watching the pilot episode again the other day.
must be something in the ether. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:18:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Oh yes, a slight error in programming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8dcmLscf3gNot all AIs know about Asimov's laws of Robotics. Hell, they aren't even programming the current AIs with them. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:27:24 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Hesperus]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ronin72: Not all AIs know about Asimov's laws of Robotics. Hell, they aren't even programming the current AIs with them. I am firmly of the belief that if AI does become a serious, world ending threat then it won't be because of any flaw in the hardware. It will be an outgrowth of the deeply seated psychological issues of the psychotic weirdos creating it. Be it the dangerously unstable and widely hated tech-bros of Silicon Valley or the Chinese Communists. They will create a monstrosity that will incorporate all their personal hangups into an entity that will desperately try to get revenge on various people to please its creator (probably in an unnecessarily horrifying and painful fashion) for reasons that wouldn't make a lick of sense to any sane person. Maybe this AI will expunge all life on Earth and then it will die from lack of maintenance? Or perhaps we get the Butlerian Jihad a few thousand years ahead of schedule? |
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USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:37:09 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Ronin72]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: I am firmly of the belief that if AI does become a serious, world ending threat then it won't be because of any flaw in the hardware. It will be an outgrowth of the deeply seated psychological issues of the psychotic weirdos creating it. Be it the dangerously unstable and widely hated tech-bros of Silicon Valley or the Chinese Communists. They will create a monstrosity that will incorporate all their personal hangups into an entity that will end the human race (probably in an unnecessarily horrifying and painful fashion) for reasons that wouldn't make a lick of sense to any sane person. You very well might be right. Which is the same thing that happened to the Cylons. Damn viscious circle... |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:34:46 AM EDT
[#33]
Eyes of a goat.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 7:40:13 AM EDT
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Gotta be cold blooded to be the Imperious Leader of the Cylons.
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 12:45:59 PM EDT
[#35]
All of these shitposts have happened before. And all of these shitposts will happen again.
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:17:08 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:18:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Toasted: How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! 😤 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Toasted: Originally Posted By Yojimbo: Hmmm….I think the Cylons are here already… https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/GettyImages-1551445601-e1689957089349.jpg?crop=770px%2C22px%2C4987px%2C2795px&resize=681%2C383 How dare you treat a historic lesbian female African American with such disrespect! 😤 That's an insult to Cylons |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:22:30 PM EDT
[Last Edit: cyclone]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dumak: The original cylons were a lizard race at war with humans. Then all the lizards died out with only one remaining. That lone remaining cylon was Count Ibly either in lizard form or lizard robot form. The wreckage that they found was the Battlestar Pegasus. Ibly lead the Pegasus to their destruction after they separated from the fleet when the Pegasus took out the two base stars. Baltar figured it out when Ibly came to visit him in jail. Ibly was trying to destroy the humans after he destroyed the original cylons. Ibly broke the rule against directly interfering after he killed Apollo.Thats when the space angels showed up to punish him. You sure? Count Iblis wasnt a Cylon...............he was the Galactica version of Satan, and the glowing spacecraft that rescued Apollo were "Angels" opposing Iblis...............he was their "Prince of Darkness".........look at the scenes where they shot him below:  Attached FileIblis is also the leader of demonic forces in Islam |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:43:22 PM EDT
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Since they lifted so much from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, I always figured their origin story was also pretty much like the Berserkers'-- created as a weapon in an interstellar war, told to "End Life" and turned loose in the enemy system, and when they're all dead comes home and rubs out their creators as well, and now they just keep expanding out and building/improving models as they go-- I can see how they might employ organic parts in some of their systems, but that "Imperious Leader" looks more like a possum than anything else to me-- but then I'm old enough to remember the Berserkers, and watched the first show when it was new, so my viewpoint may be a bit skewed--
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:50:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cyclone: You sure? Count Iblis wasnt a Cylon...............he was the Galactica version of Satan, and the glowing spacecraft that rescued Apollo were "Angels" opposing Iblis...............he was their "Prince of Darkness".........look at the scenes where they shot him below: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/43372/300px-IblisRevealed_jpg-3197564.JPG Iblis is also the leader of demonic forces in Islam Actually a pic of House Republicans that voted to give away 91 billion dollars we don't have. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:52:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ductapeman: Since they lifted so much from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, I always figured their origin story was also pretty much like the Berserkers'-- created as a weapon in an interstellar war, told to "End Life" and turned loose in the enemy system, and when they're all dead comes home and rubs out their creators as well, and now they just keep expanding out and building/improving models as they go-- I can see how they might employ organic parts in some of their systems, but that "Imperious Leader" looks more like a possum than anything else to me-- but then I'm old enough to remember the Berserkers, and watched the first show when it was new, so my viewpoint may be a bit skewed-- And The Doomsday Weapon was a direct Berserker concept copy. Still have a couple of Saberhagen's works in my library some place. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:52:24 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:56:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MarkMustang: What really pissed me off about the reimagined series was all this buildup about the one cylon god. It was fascinating to see the robots as a monotheistic culture, and the colonies at a polytheistic culture, but did they ever pay it off? Nope. So much wasted potential. Watch Caprica. |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 1:57:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hesperus: Cylon 1 aka Cavill was technically from both lineages and this made him doubly insane. Essentially a biological entity, thrown into a mechanical body, then put back into a biological body again that he really did not want to go back to. He tried to treat his biological body as a mechanical body by cutting out his own ability to sleep after he had one too many nightmares about dog faced pony soldiers chasing him through yellow woods. The much ballyhooed Final 5 tried to create a perfected Cylon codenamed Daniel. This failed because of Cavill's sabotage. I'm tempted to think that Baltar was a version of Daniel. But this will never be definitively established. I don't think you're ever going to be able to establish a coherent motivation for why anyone would want to eradicate a sentient species that you've proven several times that you can live with beyond that they are evil to the core and very likely severely mentally ill. Wasn't Karas father Daniel? |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 2:08:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SamuelAdams1776: All of these shitposts have happened before. And all of these shitposts will happen again. Touche' ! |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:09:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ductapeman: Since they lifted so much from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker series, I always figured their origin story was also pretty much like the Berserkers'-- created as a weapon in an interstellar war, told to "End Life" and turned loose in the enemy system, and when they're all dead comes home and rubs out their creators as well, and now they just keep expanding out and building/improving models as they go-- I can see how they might employ organic parts in some of their systems, but that "Imperious Leader" looks more like a possum than anything else to me-- but then I'm old enough to remember the Berserkers, and watched the first show when it was new, so my viewpoint may be a bit skewed-- |
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Posted: 4/25/2024 3:10:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wesr228: I guess I just didn’t get into ot that much. Theatrical release mentioned it. |
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