There are many copies. Do they have a plan?

The Life-size Cylon figure, as seen in the modern 'Battlestar Galactica', is manufactured exclusively by Fred Barton Productions, Inc. of Los Angeles, California, and licensed through Universal Studios. Each Cylon is hand-made using only the finest materials, and overseen by the 'Robot Man' himself, Fred Barton.

This outstanding 7-foot replica features both the haunting visor lights of the robotic soldier synchronized to the menacing, eerie hum of the Cylon Centurion. It is sure to impress not only fellow fans of the epic 'Battlestar Galactica' saga, but those who are just encountering the stunning Cylon robot for the first time

Esta serie es una nueva versión de "Battlestar Galactica" pero de los años 1978... la historia es casi la misma, salvo algunos cambios ajustados a la realidad.

El 25 de septiembre estrenan la 2da parte de la 4ta y última temporada que se suspendió debido a la huelga de guionistas, asi que serán los últimos 10 capítulos de la serie, y para los que no la han visto, los animo a verla pues los enganchará desde el primer capítulo.

SINOPSIS

La civilización humana está dividida en varios planetas y juntas forman "Las 12 colonias de Kobol" y son los creadores de una raza de robots llamados Cylons, los cuales se rebelan y con la ayuda del Doctor Baltar lanzan un ataque nuclear imprevisto exterminando a las poblaciones de dichos planetas.

Lo único que queda de la humanidad es la "astronave de combate Galáctica" (Battlestar Galáctica) debido a que los sistemas informáticos de ésta nave estaban fuera de línea y algunas otras naves civiles más que estaban en vuelo durante el ataque Cylon.

La Galactica estaba a punto de convertirse en un "museo", tenían ya los Raiders (naves unipersonales de combate) en las salas de exposición para turistas y/o periodistas pues estos eran muy antiguos, pero debido a que son lo único que tienen se ven obligados a desenpolvar todo y hacerle frente a los Cylons.

Entonces se reúnen estas naves a la Galáctica y tratan de resistir los ataques constantes de los Cylon con la ayuda de ésta mientras se dirigen a la legendaria decimotercera colonia cuya ubicación es desconocida y le ponen de nombre: La Tierra.

Web Oficial de Battlestar Galactica

FICHA IMDB de Battlestar Galactica

I must stop thinking that there is a problem for me to express my thought in the way I want.  I've come to realize that my vision is actually getting clearer and clearer as I progress on my path.   That's is one of the thing I thought about while in trance/panic attack last night: no matter what happened to me, whatever good or bad, there is a part in me that is pure and untouched.  If I remain aligned to that higher-self, If I remain authentic to myself, if I speak my truth, there is nothing to be afraid of. Everything becomes possible... The essence of who I am never change.

I will in the future talk in length about the Hybrid from the tv show Battlestar Galactica.  I have a very strong connection to her. I feel like the modern archetype that she represent for me is very close to my vision of who I am at a metaphysical/spiritual level.  I will be writing a serie of posts under the titIe "The Zen of Cylons".

One degree angle nominal. Seascape portrait of the woman child cavern of the soul. Under pressure-heat ratio ides of evolutions have buried their fears.

The Onyxx

at Lullaby on Daydream Road

http://lullabyondaydreamroad.wordpress.com/

William Adama

Almirante de la Estrella de Combate Galáctica

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Más de uno sé que me va a matar por el montaje jajajaja.

Info:

¿Qué son los Cylon?

Get a Mac, los anuncios

]]> http://callofthemild.wordpress.com/?p=42 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:04:50 +0000 gemmetwinant http://callofthemild.wordpress.com/?p=42 This is the most fucking amazing thing. It's from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (c. 400 BC), recalling a much older story. Read it, and on the other end, I'm going to tell you why.

The Spartans spent the period before the outbreak of war sending embassies to Athens with various complaints, so that there should be a good pretext for making war if the Athenians paid no attention to them.

The first embassy from Sparta to Athens was instructed to demand that the Athenians should “drive out the curse of the goddess.” The meaning of this was as follows:

In former times there was an Athenian called Cylon, a victor in the Olympic Games, belonging to a noble family, and a powerful man himself. He had married the daughter of Theagenes, a Megarian, who at that time was dictator of Megara. Cylon went to Delphi to consult the god, and the reply he received was that he was to seize the Acropolis of Athens during the great festival of Zeus. Theagenes gave him some troops and, summoning his own friends to join him, when the time came for the Olympic festival in the Peloponnese, he seized the Acropolis with the intention of making himself dictator, believing that the Olympic festival must be ‘ the great festival of Zeus’ and also that there was something appropriate in it to his own case, since he had won a victory at the Olympic Games. Whether perhaps the festival referred to was meant to be in Attica or somewhere else he never even considered, nor did the oracle offer any enlightenment. . . imagining that his view of the matter was correct, he attempted to seize power.

However, when the Athenians discovered what had happened they all came in from the country in full force to resist Cylon’s party and surrounded and blockaded them on the Acropolis. After some time had passed the Athenians grew tired of the siege, and most of them withdrew, leaving the nine archons, in those times the chief political power in Athens, with absolute authority both for carrying on the siege and for settling the whole affair as seemed best to them. Meanwhile the besieged party of Cylon and his supporters were suffering badly from lack of food and water. Cylon and his brother managed to escape, but the rest, who were now in great straits, some of them actually dying of hunger, took their places as suppliants in front of the altar on the Acropolis. When they saw that they were dying in the temple, the Athenians who had been set there on guard persuaded them to leave their position on the understanding that they would not be harmed, took them out, and put them to death. They also killed some of them who, on their way past, took refuge at the altars of the Dread Goddesses.

It was because of this that the men who killed them and their families after them were called accursed and guilty before the goddess. Certainly these guilty men were driven out by the Athenians, and driven out again later by the Spartan Cleomenes with the Athenian party who backed him: They exiled the living and dug up and cast out the bones of the dead. Nevertheless they came back later, and their descendants still live in Athens.

It was this curse that the Spartans now demanded should be driven out. Their first aim, so they said, was to do honour to the gods, but of course they knew that Pericles, the son of Xanthippus, was connected with the curse on his mother’s side, and they thought that if he were exiled they would be more likely to get their own way with the Athenians. Not that they really expected this to happen to him, but they did hope to make him unpopular in Athens on the ground that the war would be partly laid down to his account. He was the most powerful man of his times, and in his leadership of the state he invariably opposed Sparta, allowing no concessions and urging Athens on to war.

Cylon's failed coup occurred in 635 BC. It's the earliest historical event we can confirm and date in Athenian history. For background, around 1200 or 1100 BC, the sophisticated civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean from Greece through modern Turkey and all the way down to Egypt all collapsed at once. We don't know why, really, but at cities all through this area, there's a layer of destruction in the archaeology, followed by a layer that was clearly left by less complex, wealthy, and advanced societies. The pre-1200 period in Greece is the heroic age. In Greek memory, it was the era when the gods walked the earth, Heracles performed the twelve tasks and a swan gave birth to twins. Greek myth's final moment is the Trojan War, an event that historians think actually occurred in some form, and was part of the widespread 1200 BC collapse.

From 1200 or so through about 800 BC was the Greek Dark Age: technologies were lost, populations shrank, cities contracted, contact with the outside world diminished, people became poorer. The written word virtually disappears from Greece during this time. You know how when you read The Odyssey, they tell you that it was an oral history that was compiled by Homer? The oral tradition would have occurred between 1200 and 800 (more or less), turning the actual--but increasingly long-ago--destruction of a town in northwestern Anatolia into the legend of gods and heroes we know today. Homer probably lived sometime around 700 or 800, when the Dark Age wrapped up, the cities started to rebound, the economy got moving, the Greek alphabet was introduced, and so forth. Shortly thereafter, recorded history kicks in.

And this brings us back to Cylon's coup (remember, 635 BC, and the first dated event in Athenian history). You know Clausewitz's famous adage, that war is simply politics by other means. Foucault argues that this is backwards. Politics, he says, is war by other means:

The role of political power is perpetually to use a sort of silent war to reinscribe the relationship of force, and to reinscribe it in institutions, economic inequalities, language, and even the bodies of individuals.

What's amazing about the rendering of Cylon's coup is that it is a testimony of the moment when war is transmuted into politics. The change, in 635, is only partly done. Cylon has performed an act that treats war and politics as the same thing: he marches soldiers onto the Acropolis. But the Athenians don't respond symmetrically, exactly. They offer a trial, and when the mob instead decides to wage war back, and stone the perpetrators to death, the city as a whole decides to try the mob's leaders, and send them into exile. The mob is used to politics and war as synonymous phenomena; this was, presumably, how it had been during the Greek Dark Age. But the body politic as a whole is learning in fits and starts that social relations proceed more smoothly when they are conducted in words, rather than by swords and stones. There is some notion here of procedure, and procedural justice. And the whole point of civil procedure is to drain the violence from politics. You know the saying: "Better to count heads than to break them."

This little story, told over two pages in the middle of Thucydides' History is, almost literally, the dawn of Western Civilization. Did I just blow your mind?

I've long had a question that I might as well pose here (part of the 12 step program).  Early in the series, they did this dramatic thing where whenever a skin-job cylon was having sex, they show her spine glowing red (very cinematic).  But cylons are supposed to be perfectly indistinguishable from humans.  What's the deal?  The humans have long struggled to find a way to "out" the cylon imposters.  Little do they know that they only have to get them on their backs.  Of course, the easy explaination for this is that the glowing spine was presented to the audience only for dramatic effect, and that the characters in the story would not be omniscient enough to see it themselves.

Good thing there are so few plot holes to bicker about.

1. What is the difference between 'terminate' and 'exterminate'?

I mean, if you terminate something, you end it. And if you exterminate something, you...also end it. Should extermination only apply to a group of things, possibly? But if so, then why do Daleks threaten to ex-terminate individuals? And why, when the meaning is almost identical, is the prefix 'ex' used? Ex means from, terminus means end, so exterminate feels like it should mean 'from the end'. The end of what, Webster? The end of what?

Stupid language.

2. Why would anyone make a spoken email alert that sounds like an angry Cylon?

There are three people in surrounding cubicles whose email software, on receiving a new message, goes 'bleep!' and then intones, in a low, electronic, so-robotic-you-can-feel-the-corners synth-voice, 'you'vegotamessgage', providing the constant background fear of being laser-blasted into space dust. The question isn't why the voice software exists, but why it's apparently the default spoken setting on our office computers. It's downright unsettling, and - even worse - not one of the people whose alert this is has ever heard of a Cylon, meaning that my brilliant Battlestar quips are utterly wasted.

3. 300 pigs have stampeded through a Victorian town.

They were headed for the slaughterhouse when the truck they were in tipped over. It's like the Great Escape, only without Nazis. Wouldn't it be fair if we let them go rather than rounding them back up - sort of a, 'You win this time, pig, but I'll be watching you!' dealie? Poor little dudes. If only they weren't so tasty.

This is ALL the proof I need!  Battlestar fans have long noticed the obvious similarities between the Senator from Arizona, and Col. Tigh:

What about that blond wife of his.  May I present the irrefutable evidence?

John McCain's wife:

Number "Six":

How much clearer can it get?  Both are blond.  Both love the color red.  Granted, McCain's "Six" has aged a little...

A torradeira foi feita especialmente para a San Diego Comic-Con (uma das maiores feiras nerds do mundo), mas está disponível para compra online aqui (65 doletas). Corra, pois a edição é superhipermegamaster limitada.

*nota: "Toaster" é o apelido que os humanos dão pra os Cylons, robôs assassinos do mal da série. Por isso o trocadalho, sacaram?

Apesar de achar que uma torradeira é um tanto inútil no mundo moderno, Barone pergunta: alguém aí tem cartão internacional?

Battlestar Galactica is a TV show and therefore isn't subject to rigorous scientific analysis. It is full of clues that have multiple meanings which allows the writers more freedom to change the direction without creating inconsistancies in the storyline. Trying to work out what is going on is like trying to escape from a maze that is being continually built, with paths that were previously left intentionally open being blocked off as the story progresses.

What does it mean to be 'cylon'?

David Eick- I think the audience has to start by asking the question, "What really defines a Cylon?" That's part of what Season 4 is really going to be dedicated to. And the tip of that iceberg will be introduced in the season finale. (source: TV Guide)

There is no official definition of the term cylon for the reimagined BSG. Cylon is layered with meaning, it includes both cybernetic organism and immortal being. Looking at the show like this opens up a whole new way of solving it's mysteries.

What is the nature of the Final Five?

RDM - 3/26/2007 ...The conceptual framework in which these guys are Cylons, it all sort of works once we laid down their individual back stories... [They are all full Cylons] but they are different fundamentally. (Source)

The Final Five are cylons within the conceptual framework of immortality. Outside of that framework they are not cylons. The skinjobs and raiders are also immortal since they have the ability to resurrect. It sort of works.

The Final Five have two components which for the purposes of this article we will separate into the human character (FFh) and the Opera House figures. The Opera House figures communicate with the FFh from the place between life and death (TPBLAD) by appearing as a head character. They are two different entities! This connection was made when the fleet reached the Ionian Nebula. This is indicated by the scenes at the end of Crossroads Pt II, Tory is physically sick, Anders gets a headache and all four suffer from confusion. They then feel compelled to go to the gym so that their FFg components can get together, assess the situation and ensure that the connection has been established.

The Opera House figures communicate by appearing as a head character. So the head character is an expression of the Opera House figure and in Baltar's mind it appears as Head.Six, in Tigh's mind it appears as Head.Ellen. Head.Ellen appears to Tigh "superimposed" over Caprica.Six - this is exactly the same phenomenon that happened to Baltar when the raptor crashed on Kobol (Kobols Last Gleaming) and Head.Six appeared "superimposed" over Crashdown as he was helping Baltar out of the burning raptor.

Head characters appear to their host in the image of someone that the host is familiar with in order to make the host more conducive to influence. This is either intentional or simply that it is the FFh subconscious that forms the appearance of the head character.

The Opera House is what allows the connection between Opera House figures and FFh. So the "truth of the Opera House" is that it's a communication device between the LOK in the space between life and death and their mortal companions.

Caprica.Six could sense the Final Five in the fleet after the connection was established. Only four heard the watchtower tune because Baltar was already connected through Head.Six. In Revelations, D'Anna only asked for four of the Final Five because Baltar was already on the baseship.

RDM didn't need to decide who the four were going to be until late in season 3, the FFh could be anyone he thinks most appropriate at the time...

Tigh was one of the first names tossed out. Tyrol, Anders, and Tory. And they all had reasons why their backstories worked for the Cylons and for what the final four Cylons would be in particular. Tyrol had a connection to Sharon, obviously, had fallen in love with a Cylon. He was drawn towards the Temple on the algae planet. Anders had survived two resistance movements, very mysteriously. He had also fallen for Starbuck who has a specific destiny, the Cylons keep saying. Tory we knew the least about, so she was a bit of a wildcard. Tigh was the most problematic, and Tigh I went back and forth on all the way up to the point where we were shooting the episode and wanted to make sure that we knew what we were doing, and we weren't blowing something. (Source Crossroads Pt II podcast)

Last Supper Picture

The Missing Figure. Someone is indeed absent from the table admits Moore: We have not yet revealed the final [unknown] Cylon. Does that mean the people already at the table aren't the final Cylon? Moore laughs, you ferreted that our pretty slyly. I didn't really want to give that away. (Source)

This is classic misdirection. You provide a clue that is quite obvious (space for the missing character), then you act disappointed with yourself when someone points it out and at the same time make them think they were clever to notice. "you ferreted that our pretty slyly" I mean come on Ron, you leave a big gaping space in the picture then you congratulate me for noticing it! I didn't really want to give that away - then why say this unless he is wanting you to think he is giving it away!

MR: Just so I understand what I think you told EW for the story that went with the photo, none of the people in that photo is the final Cylon, right?
RDM: Yeah. I said that. I probably shouldn’t have said that [laughs] but I have said that. So, yeah [that is the case, the final Cylon is not any of the people in the photo.

None of the PEOPLE in the Last Supper picture are the final cylon - Head.Six is not a person, she is an expression of one of the Opera House figures, projected through the Opera House and into the mind of a mortal LOK. He was quite cagey the way he approached this and then later regretted saying it. Now if you put Tory in the picture who is also missing, then you have all six reincarnated mortal LOK there (FFh + Starbuck).

Natalie is also pointing straight at Head.Six - as if its a joke that the producers are playing on us where they can say they have been making it obvious that Head.Six is the final cylon!

The New Generation - "transformation is the goal"

The Opera House figures are instrumental in instigating "gods new generation". Hera is tied to the head character that Baltar sees, with Baltar being her guardian and protector. Tigh's head character tricks him into thinking Caprica.Six is Ellen because he loves Ellen and love is a requirement for the S7 to be able to successfully procreate.

Nicky = Tyrol + Cally, both human so Nicky has no importance in the storyline (here)
Hera = Helo + Sharon, human + S7, first of the new generation
Six's child = Tigh + Six, human + S7, second of the new generation

Hera is either a reincarnated form of one of the Opera House figures or more likely a new LOK. She is born with number six as a cue, leading her to seek out Caprica.Six (and Baltar, her guardian and protector). Remember the S7 are parents of the new generation and were created by the Opera House figures.

(See Hera and the Beacon clue for a complete explanation of Gods new generation)

Hybrid speech

"And the fifth, still in shadow, will claw toward the light, hungering for redemption that will only come in the howl of terrible suffering."

The hybrid is talking about two entities, not just one. The Opera House figure that appears as Head.Six is in shadow. It's host, Baltar is hungering for redemption over his guilt in the involvement with destruction of the 12 colonies.

The Lords of Kobol

Pythia talks about the flood, wiped out most of humanity, nobody blames the flood. The flood is a force of nature, through the flood mankind is rejuvenated, born again, I was not the flood you see, I blame myself, I blame myself, that God made the man that made that choice. God made us all perfect. - Baltar, The Hub

The Lords of Kobol are the mythical flood, they work behind the scenes and manipulate mankind, guiding them periodically through a cycle of destruction and rebirth. All of this has happened before and will happen again...

The original programmers

The Opera House figures and by proxy the head characters are the original programmers. Once the dumb chrome toaster cylons became self aware, they were able to be inhabited by head characters who then guided them toward creating the S7. This is where they got their resurrection technology from and its also why the Razor hybrid and guardians made a quick escape from the scene before they were 'enslaved'.

The hybrid, looking into the space between life and death could have also acted as a gateway that allowed the head characters to infiltrate cylon civilisation.Perhaps they then instructed him to build a Opera House on the homeworld so that they could appear to the cylons as the five lost cylon models.

The S7 were created as a new race in their own right but it was discovered that they couldn't build a model that could procreate. This is why they need the humans to fulfill one of Gods most important commandments.

Since the S7 were created by the Opera House figures, they can be inhabited by head characters at any time (Caprix.Six's Head.Baltar).

The Thirteeth Tribe

Adama - "And zeus warned the leaders of the 12 tribes that any return to kobol would exact a price in blood."

Why did Zeus, one of the Lords of Kobol warn only 12 tribes not to return to Kobol when it is stated numerous times that 13 tribes left? Because Zeus is a member of the 13th tribe so he didn't need to warn himself. The Lords of Kobol, the Opera House figures, the head characters, the Flood and the leaders of the 13th tribe are all the same thing!

God

"Five pillars of the Temple were fashioned after the five priests devoted to the o­ne whose name [cannot be spoken]"

The five priests being the members of the 13th tribe that 4000 years ago were the equivalent of the current Final Five. So the "one whose name cannot be spoken" and Head.Six's "one true God" are one and the same. His name cannot be spoken because he has no name! In this sense, God isn't a person, a character or an entity that will make an appearance in the show - its more of an idea just like it is in all religions. The Lords of Kobol, whatever they really are still believe in a God, they still question their own existance, their God is the same God as in any monotheistic religion.

D'Anna recognizing the Final Five

D'Anna only recognized Baltar in the Temple. She didn’t recognize the other four, she just used a mind trick to get Tory to give herself up. Tory then told her who the other three were, which is how D’Anna knew their identities while they were in the launch tube.

(See What did D'Anna really see in the Temple of Five for a more detailed description)

Incidently, its interesting that Head.Six tells Baltar he is the one that is supposed to look through the Eye of Jupiter and see the faces of the Final Five. So it seems that Baltar was destined to discover the truth behind what he really is - a reincarnated mortal form of LOK.

Summary

The FF and the S7 are both cylons "within the conceptual framework" of immortality - as RDM himself says "it sort of works". The Opera House figures are immortal, the cylons have resurrection technology and therefore they both are, in a roundabout way cylons. The Opera House figures also created the S7 and the S7 incorrectly assume that these are the lost five models so they call them cylons.

The Opera House figures communicate with both human and S7 by appearing as head characters in order to influence them. The manifestation of one of these figures appears in the Last Supper picture as Head.Six. Head.Six is an appearance of the final cylon within Baltar's mind - she is not a person.

The Final Five humans (+Starbuck) are reincarnated mortal forms of LOK. The Opera House figures are the "real" Final Five, the ones the cylons talk about, the skinjobs "creators". These Opera House figures + Maelstrom.Leoben are the other 6 LOK, they reside in TPBLAD and communicate with their mortal companions via the Opera House - except for Maelstrom.Leoben who stands on the shore of the stream, a metaphor for the space between life and death and from here he can reach out and contact Kara when she is on the verge of death.

Actors reaction to the identity of the final cylon

Sackhoff: You know, at first I was a little disappointed. I was like, "Really? That's what you're gonna do? Okay…" But then the more I thought about it, I was like, "Oh… this makes so much sense. That's fantastic!" And I realized that if the fans do what I did, they'll be happy. If they take it for what it is on camera, they'll be like, "Excuse me?!" (Source)

Grace Park: "There's one episode where everything is explained and I had to read it three times, I had to sit down with [executive producer] Ron Moore and he had to break it down." (Source)

During an interview with Roslin/Six and Starbuck, Six says that you will be compelled to go back and rewatch the show. Can anyone else but Head.Six elicit this type of reaction? (Video Source)

Final notes

This theory doesn't attempt to explain the origins of the Lords of Kobol. They could be original cylons created thousands of years ago by humans on Earth or simply supernatural god like immortal beings. I suspect that this will be an open question and left to the audience to debate for the next 20 years, just like the beings of light in the original Battlestar Galactica.

Ya he visto todas las temporadas disponibles de Galactica y he de decir que la serie es sublime. Ya solo quedan 10 episodios mas y termina la serie.

Cual sera el destino de los supervivientes? Quien es el ultimo cylon? Hasta enero no sabremos nada pero estoy seguro que el final de la serie sera espectacular.

Si no habéis visto aun la serie os aconsejo empezar ya.

First up is a full-size replica of a Cylon Centurion from the amazing remake of the TV series Battlestar Galactica. It is handmade and features a functional visor light. Did I mention that it's full-size? That's 7 feet of pure AWESOME. Not so cool is the $7,500 price tag. Yikes.

The second toy combines two of my childhood obsessions, Star Wars and LEGO, so you know it's going to be cool. It's a LEGO Death Star. That's right, the Death Star. Made completely of LEGOs. Did your head just explode? It comes with a bunch of Star Wars characters and several rooms that played important roles in A New Hope. A $400 price tag seems steep, but holy hell this is cool.