I think you’re blaspheming; “What do The Lords of Cobol want with a star…er, Battlestar?”
I don’t have a copy of Six Degrees. Is the exchange of tapes or DVDs frowned upon by the Lords of Kobolrators?
According to the captured and subsequently tortured cylon from the last episode, “We’re all gods, all of us (humans and cyclons) … God loved you (humans) more than all other living creatures and you repaid his divine love with sin, hate, corruption, and evil, so then he decided to create the Cylons.”
It’s like the Cylons are right out of the Old Testament (with technology updates), sent to strike down and punish the humans for their sins, and to effect a change in the way they’re doing things.
Since it’s rather obvious that whatever entity controls the Cyclons doesn’t really want to kill off all of the remaining humans, it seems to me that they want to selectively breed with the humans that have traits they consider positive. They know that neither humans nor cylons are perfect, but with some controlled breeding, they hope to create beings worthy of their god.
This is interesting, I guess the question is what is behind or the basis of both of these beliefs. For example, from the most recent episode (2/25) We are given the impression that the colonials are going to find the planet Kobol in the future, so it must really exist. To me, I assume that their “gods” are simply an advanced race they are descended or an offshoot from that orginally seeded the colonies. At the moment I am of the theory that the cylon god is some type of super-sentient computer program that may or may not have a “body” or central location.
Another interesting possibility is that maybe ONE of the orginal “lords of kobol” was unhappy with their decendants and has taken the side of the Cylons and is now their “one true god”.
Well it is not obvious at all that cylons don’t intend to kill all humans. We don’t know who or what is behind the cylons and what their goal is. A popular theory is that cylons are just using colonials to find earth as they believe it is real, with the goal of destroying the last of the human menance. That is not to say that some cylons don’t become quite intruiged with humanity in the mean time.
It is even possible that maybe ONE of the orginal “lords of kobol” was unhappy with their decendants and has taken the side of the Cylons and is now their “one true god” smiting down those evil doers.
What was the purpose of leaving Helo alive and fornicating with BoomerBot on Caprica? With all the cylons that look like humans, they could surely do more damage to the fleet than they have done.
The cylons have been around in human society for a while, they probably know just as much if not more than any humans about the location of Cobol and/or Earth. They also seem to be much better equipped to explore the galaxy than the ragtag fleet of humans that has to stay together. It just doesn’t seem logical for the cylons to ignore an immediate threat that they know about and could destroy, in order to possibly follow them to some other far away potential threat that might even be a myth. A mythical, far-away, potential threat that they could always find later in their own good time.
The cylons want to breed with humans, that’s why they’re all so damn hot!
They are experimenting with the human condition. They want to become human. Better of course, but human.
I still havent gotten to see any of the new BG, but since the Mormon angle has been brought up- RE “Lords of Kobol”- google up Mormonism & Kolob.
First, You should watch the series as it is quite good, a very strong character based story. You really won’t regret it. You can even watch the pilot episode free online commerical free anytime at http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/33_full_episode/
Second, While a huge part of the orginal series, Mormonism doesn’t really apply to the new series, only the orginal, as the current writer /exec producer stated he didn’t want to take the mormon angle and that he was going to take it in a different direction. I am not sure where they are going to go with the lords of kobol as a result of this. The show does have a very strong religious theme however, much more overt than the orginal mormon based series.
Well they certainly have an interest in examining the human condition, however their goal is supposed to be eventual annihilation. Now, I do believe that there are going to be some problems developing as a result of six’s increasing interests and curiosities, as well as boomer apparently being maybe just a little bit too human like.
The cylons aren’t too worried about finishing us off now, simply because THEY believe that they can finish the job anytime they like, and don’t pecieve us as a threat really at this point. Whether this is actually true is another matter. Like a cat playing with a mouse, it enjoyes playing with its prey. The cylons to me, appear to be supremely arrogant, and they are not worried about anything…yet.
I disagree.
Cylons are not operating on feelings here, as much as on math.
Billions of Humans have died. Mere thousands are left.
Less than 1/10 of 1% of the Human population is left alive.
Mathematically, this is utterly insignificant.
Priorities have shifted. Galactica & the fleet are not a “maximum effort” priority.
Do the Cylons even know Earth exists? It is unproven. Even Adama doesn’t believe it.
No. The Cylons are merely being cost-efficient. If Galactica was important, there would be 200 to 300 Base Stars attacking all at once.
They have not learned the lesson:
How many do they have? How many did they use in the initial fight against the modern battlestars?
Although in this case we have to make an exception. The Cylons carried out a forty-year tactical withdrawl and it worked perfectly.
I don’t know about feelings, but they do seem to believe that all humans must be destroyed. As stated, they are not worried about getting galactia now, because they want be lead to earth. They also do want to spend time studing humans. The irony is that the Cylons seem to have such a concern about being human-like, despite their obvious distain for the human race.
Whether or not earth actually exists, the Cylons most likely believe it does, based on comments from the last episode regarding “you will find Kobol”, as if this has already been ordained by the cylon god. While Adama believes that earth and kobol are legends, the cylons believe they are real.
Another possibility is that the cylon god wants to destroy the human gods (the lords of kobol) and that they are trying to find kobol through the surviving humans.
So that’s the significance of the guy on Caprica being found when his toast pops up :smack: Has that been shown in the US? Is it spoilerable?
I really, really hope that the Battlestar doesn’t finally get to earth, to find it devoid of humans, and we find out that Adama = Adam and Six/Boomer/Some-other-cylon = Eve.
Because I really like the show.
Where is this stated? Cite? :dubious: :dubious: :dubious:
Pushkin-Yes, that episode has been shown in the USA.
Sorry, I meant as I had previously stated. (the flaw of late night posts)