I hope they don’t go there. The robot/AI/android who “wants to be human” is quite literally the most hackneyed cliche in SF. It goes all the way back to what is generally acknowledged as the first SF novel – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
An interesting point.
I could deal with the Cylons being Frankenstein’s creation much more easily than they’re being Data.
If the human like Cylons are some innocent pulling the wings off flies and discovering what it means to be human, who the hell made them, the souless toaster Cylons? I can deal with machines making more machines, but why and how would the above toasers create biological entities?
Ostensibly, as deep-cover spies and saboteurs. But it’s not clear to me (I’ve only seen a couple of episodes): If the human-form Cylons are “organic” – then in what sense are they not human? If you looked at their tissue under a microscope, would you see cells, with DNA in the nuclei? Presumably, or it would be too easy to detect them. So what’s the difference? Do they have silicon-based computers instead of neuronal brains? Probably not, same reason. But then, if their brains are the same as yours or mine – how do the Cylons control them? Are they simply human clones with conditioned personalities? We know they’re capable of sex with humans – but are they capable of getting pregnant by a human, or getting a human pregnant? If so, what is the child? Human or Cylon?
Human spines don’t glow when they, er, eat ice cream.
Homo spinus glowus coitus.
They’ve also been shown to be considerably stronger and faster than normal humans. So one would imagine that there has to be something non-organic in them that does that.
Of course, couldn’t you just x-ray everybody? Or do they not have enough x-ray film left in the fleet for that purpose?
Which had me thinking during the last show when they were running through the tunnel. If the Cylons are better than humans in so many areas, it’s only natural that they go on to replace humans. The humans in this series just don’t seem to stand a chance against the Cylons. The Cylons are faster, stronger and apparently smarter in some circumstances.
In the original, whenever there was anything even close to a fair fight(and many times not), the Cylons got whipped. Remember when two Vipers destroyed a base star by pulling it in close to the planet? Now the humans pretty much can’t do anything but run and pray the Cylons don’t find them.
[QUOTE= Now the humans pretty much can’t do anything but run and pray the Cylons don’t find them.[/QUOTE]
Unless Starbuck is shooting.