Not to mention the ability to almost instantly teleport (IOW jump) from one spot to another.
Who is in charge of the Cylons? Could their god be someone like the Imperious Leader?
Almost all sci-fi, even the very best, has to break a few rules. Interstellar travel is a biggie. We the audience simply have to forgive this. Without it, there’s no story, basically. I think what the best sci-fi does is use a modicum of restraint in the rule-breaking so as to keep at least a veneer of realism, and then stay within the confines of this relaxed rulebook, such that there considerable internal consistency. We’ll suspend our belief to swallow the premise, but it gets kind of annoying when some of the premises change on-the-fly, especially in a serial. It makes it impossible to really follow or anticipate what’s going on. You just sit there and passively take the randomness in, because it’s pointless to try to figure out what’s going on anyway. BSG has done an admirable job of this, despite our (mine especially) bitching about the errors.
So, yeah, FTL’s a toughie, but they just couldn’t have the show without it.
I wondered about that a while ago. I’m hoping whoever IL is, he/she doesn’t have the disco robe and the giant afro.
Who Mourns for Adonis?
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Or Egyptians, if you want to mention Stargate: SG1. 
Didn’t somebody already do a show about aliens posing as gods abducting humans from ancient Earth?
:rolleyes: Who MOurns for Adonis?
Little House on the Prairie?
All right, all right! But look at tanstaafl’s spoiler boxes, name the Lords of Kobol, and tell me there isn’t something to my interest/speculation! And Stargate hardly invented these sorts of ideas. Chariots of the Gods anyone?
I’m kinda interested in who the Lords are. By name, I mean. We’ve accounted for who?
Zeus
Athena
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“Arrow of Apollo” and Zarek’s comments to Lee about Apollo being the son of Zeus would account for Apollo.
And the oracle told D’Anna about the child named for the wife of Zeus - Hera, thus accounting for Hera.
Now, we’ve only accounted for the fate of one of 'em – Athena.
Uh, Dopey, Grumpy, Doc, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Happy. Huey, Dooey, Looey. Darth Vader and Obie Wan.
I’m pretty sure Kara also worships Artemis and Aphrodite, who she keeps little statuettes of and prays to on occasion. So we’ve got Apollo, Zeus, Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite…I imagine Hera is named after, you know, Hera, wife of Zeus. That’s 6. Has there been any mention of Hades, Hephaestus, Poseidon, any of those guys?
Ron Moore drinks during his podcasts. You know that, don’t you? Why would Cylons - who hate humanity - base themselves on human archetypes?
I take his podcasts as semi-drunk stream-of-thought ramblings and musings, not canon.
According to Leoben, God loved his children, but they were wicked in return (I imagine their worship of idols and general bad behavior play into this), so He gave souls to the Cylons, and I think the idea is they’re trying to perfect themselves. They’re super-human, a better version of human, and better suited to God’s plan. Trouble is, they can’t procreate. So, to become even closer to the perfect children of God they want to be, they’re trying to create a human-Cylon hybrid, something that will combine the best aspects of both races.
Yes, and smokes, the dirty dog!
I think the whole Lords of Kobol is just a left over from the previous incarnation, which mixed a lot of the Chariots of the God’s nonsense, a sprinkle of astrology, and some Mormonism.
Absolutely. Losing the Pegasus was a holdover from the original series. But, just as with the manner in which the Pegasus was lost, he manner in which we’ve dealt with Kobol and its Lords is quite unique to the current series, and, good idea or not, it’s now quite definitely out there, and fair game for future consideration if RDM & Co. so choose.
I mean, think about it: Say Galactica finds Earth and learns about some of its history. There won’t just be the Greek pantheon they apparently worship, but all kinds of others, some as old or older, and, more interestingly, they’d be able to tell right away that their religion is in some ways just as much a derivative as the ancient Greek religion was from the proto-Indo-European faith of the Kurgans, or whoever those folks were, with some Egyptian contributions and a few others thrown in. Thinking about it logically tells one immediately which is the chicken, and which is the egg, when judging Colonial religion. Also, there’s the map room on Kobol. It’s a representation of Earth, with a diagram of sorts of the heavens as seen from our world. If the 13th colony came from Kobol, just like the others, and the Earthlings fled during the great migration, just like the rest of the Colonials, how would the builders of the tomb of Athena know any of this information? That would be very easy to explain if they’d been on Earth first.