01-30-2005, 09:54 PM
After Cinderkitten brought it up, I had to go rewatch the miniseries for this show (hooray TiVo!)
Some spoilers follow. I thought anyone who didn't catch the miniseries and has been following the show might be confused about some things. They're only briefly hit on in the miniseries, so it's not obvious, for example, what the hell is up with Boltar (the crazy scientist).
Here's the rundown from the miniseries --
Boltar was working for the defense industry on their computer programming. Wireless networks were the big thing, everything connected to everything else.
He didn't realize it, but his girlfriend was a Cylon hottie. Boltar isn't intentionally a traitor to the human race, but he did allow his hottie girlfriend illegal access to the defense network that resulted in the end of civilization. He's not on the cyclon's side, nor is he on humanity's side, he's basically only concerned with his own neck so everything he does is trying to figure out what's in his best personal interest, whatever the cost to everyone else. He doesn't feel guilt over what happened, he's just terrirfied that someone will find out and kill him.
Cylon girl put some kind of chip in his head, which is how he keeps seeing her. She can appear to him at any time and interact in any way, since she's basically interfaced with his brain. However, it's not clear what her motives are. Apparently she's having some sort of individual identity crisis or something because she keeps helping Boltar at the expense of the Cylons.
Anyway, Cyclons used to be big metal AI robots created by man. They threw a revolution and after a bloody war, went off to make their homeworld somewhere else.
Well, they came back. And they figured out how to create synthetic versions of themselves that would be nearly indistinguishable from humans. Thus the Cyclon hottie/infiltrator.
She used Boltar to gain access to the defense networks, telling him it was to give her employers an advantage against rival competing companies in the software business. Instead, she programmed backdoors into all the defense network software that the cyclons could exploit.
So the Cylons attack, flip a switch that turns off all modern fighters, all modern warships, all defense networks, etc, and they proceed to obliterate humanity, ignoring calls for surrender, etc.
The Galactica was an older model ship, set to be decommisioned and turned into a museum. It was built for the original Cylon war, was not networked and was designed to be impervious to electronic attack, as were its older model fighters.
So when the Cylons attacked, the Galactica was the only warship that the Cylons couldn't turn off.
The government got wiped out, so the Secretary of Education got a promotion to president. All the civilian ships they could find that had jump drives got put into a fleet with the Galactica and they retreated out of the system.
They know that Cylons can look like people. There are only 12 models of Cylons: big metal ones are one of them, hot blond chick is #2, the Galactica is familiar with two others that were found out in the miniseries and although nobody knows it, Boomer is a Cylon too. That was revealed during the miniseries but the Galactica people don't realize it yet -- at least so far in the American viewing of the series (the whole thing is apparently out in England).
Anyway, great show. You should watch it. Damn near the first thing the Sci-Fi channel has done that I've throughly enjoyed. Special effects are done by the same group that did the Firefly series, and if you're familiar with that show, there's actually one spot in the miniseries (where the Secretary of Education is talking to the doctor) where you can see the Serenity flying by outside.... their little tribute to Firefly.
Definiately worth catching up on if they air the miniseries again.
Some spoilers follow. I thought anyone who didn't catch the miniseries and has been following the show might be confused about some things. They're only briefly hit on in the miniseries, so it's not obvious, for example, what the hell is up with Boltar (the crazy scientist).
Here's the rundown from the miniseries --
Boltar was working for the defense industry on their computer programming. Wireless networks were the big thing, everything connected to everything else.
He didn't realize it, but his girlfriend was a Cylon hottie. Boltar isn't intentionally a traitor to the human race, but he did allow his hottie girlfriend illegal access to the defense network that resulted in the end of civilization. He's not on the cyclon's side, nor is he on humanity's side, he's basically only concerned with his own neck so everything he does is trying to figure out what's in his best personal interest, whatever the cost to everyone else. He doesn't feel guilt over what happened, he's just terrirfied that someone will find out and kill him.
Cylon girl put some kind of chip in his head, which is how he keeps seeing her. She can appear to him at any time and interact in any way, since she's basically interfaced with his brain. However, it's not clear what her motives are. Apparently she's having some sort of individual identity crisis or something because she keeps helping Boltar at the expense of the Cylons.
Anyway, Cyclons used to be big metal AI robots created by man. They threw a revolution and after a bloody war, went off to make their homeworld somewhere else.
Well, they came back. And they figured out how to create synthetic versions of themselves that would be nearly indistinguishable from humans. Thus the Cyclon hottie/infiltrator.
She used Boltar to gain access to the defense networks, telling him it was to give her employers an advantage against rival competing companies in the software business. Instead, she programmed backdoors into all the defense network software that the cyclons could exploit.
So the Cylons attack, flip a switch that turns off all modern fighters, all modern warships, all defense networks, etc, and they proceed to obliterate humanity, ignoring calls for surrender, etc.
The Galactica was an older model ship, set to be decommisioned and turned into a museum. It was built for the original Cylon war, was not networked and was designed to be impervious to electronic attack, as were its older model fighters.
So when the Cylons attacked, the Galactica was the only warship that the Cylons couldn't turn off.
The government got wiped out, so the Secretary of Education got a promotion to president. All the civilian ships they could find that had jump drives got put into a fleet with the Galactica and they retreated out of the system.
They know that Cylons can look like people. There are only 12 models of Cylons: big metal ones are one of them, hot blond chick is #2, the Galactica is familiar with two others that were found out in the miniseries and although nobody knows it, Boomer is a Cylon too. That was revealed during the miniseries but the Galactica people don't realize it yet -- at least so far in the American viewing of the series (the whole thing is apparently out in England).
Anyway, great show. You should watch it. Damn near the first thing the Sci-Fi channel has done that I've throughly enjoyed. Special effects are done by the same group that did the Firefly series, and if you're familiar with that show, there's actually one spot in the miniseries (where the Secretary of Education is talking to the doctor) where you can see the Serenity flying by outside.... their little tribute to Firefly.
Definiately worth catching up on if they air the miniseries again.
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