> -----Original Message----- > From: Zaphod Beeblebrox [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:09 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: BG > > I think this all ties into the "this has happened before" theme. > Maybe the cylons that were on earth were the remnants of the landing > party that decided to stay behind (from the previous quest to find > earth) > > Now, the real question is why was Baltar using a reel to reel tape > recorder instead of an 8-track. Any technologically advanced > civilization would know that 8-track is way more handier than reel to > reel.
But they said explicitly that the cylons created these new human-form cylons in the time since the war... and yet they've been around for at least 2,000 years. For a minute I thought they might have done one of the most astounding switches in history: basically setting up that we (us, modern earthlings) are the "cylons" and that we created the "humans" of BSG - perhaps via some kind of colonization ships or something. That might have explained it... then they screwed it all up by showing them remembering there "old" lives on Earth. If we can accept that they created the cylons over 2,000 years ago AND forget that we were told that the human cylons were new then we're still left with the concept that these people were at this level of technology 2,000 years and have only advanced to what we see in the show in that time (remember that, for us, 2,000 years ago was the height of the Roman Empire). They might go meta-physical (for example saying that the human-cylons are so human now that they're getting "souls" but that those souls are somehow "recycled") but damn, that would be stupid as hell. I'm a huge fan of the show, but they've dug themselves into a hole that I can't see them digging out of. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
