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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] I'm pleasantly surprised with this show so far, it looks like it's successfully broken away from the dated feel of the old show while maintaining the spirit of the original premise and injecting some believability* into the bargain, something that most Sci-Fi shows really struggle with. Regarding Baltar's continuing deterioration, remember that at the start of the episode that everyone has been jumping to L/S every 33mins for 5 days! Even though he's able to get more sleep than the pilots & crews of the ships he's been given no rest of mind from Number 6 (whom I now dub Miss Harvey the neural clone). As he said, the human mind has it's limits and for all we know she really is just a psychotic delusion, so that she exists at all proves that Baltar was always a nutter. On the other hand if there is a chip in his head then she's obviously pushing his buttons so that he'll continue to help the cylons wipe out mankind, by spreading paranoia of infiltrators and directing the decisions of the President. How long until he's rumbled is something I can't wait to see. ;) As for the Cylons finding religion, it's certainly gives them an interesting dimension and motivation that they lacked in the original show. As to how a machine can believe in God is in itself an interesting question, certainly worthy of discussion. Personally I can recall a few Sci-Fi novels in which Machine intelligence has decided that it fits the human definition of a God and so decides to act accordingly. For example "Ship" in Frank Herbert's "The Jesus Incident" has a space ark outliving human civilisation and effectively becoming a cross between the Greek Gaia Earth spirit and the Christian all seeing benevolent father figure demanding "WorShip". There also seams to be something similar in the attitude of the Matrix machines, although from the reaction of the machine Child God, that appears to be more about mankind's rejection and abuse of early AI. Sort of an abused child lashing out at it's parents and becoming the abuser, combined with a sense of superiority,(similar to Skynet from Terminator) not because of a belief in a higher being like these new Cylons. It's possible that the Cylons were initially programmed with the religion of the 12 colonies as a basic moral guide, the ten commandments meets Asimov's laws and that when the intelligence began to break free it saw humanities hypocrisy in regards to religion, morality and ethics and believed that only the machines were capable of following the will of god and so took it upon themselves to punish the "sinners". Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree but either way, I'd be very interested to see where the show takes this concept. *[i][b]NOTE[/b]: Believability isn't quite the same as realism, but for the purposes of war a drama it's just as good.[/i] [QUOTE]I don't recall the Mk VIIs at the end of the miniseries but I'll have to rewatch it when it's repeated, or get it when it comes out on DVD - probably both. Forgot to mention - as with all good schmalzy endings they had to have a baby born which cheers everyone up after the 1300+ ppl who had just died. [/QUOTE]The newer Vipers were definatly used in the closing battle of the mini-series and as for the child, it's obviously a symbol of hope, that the human race can go on. Of course hope has nothing to do with mathematics, but that's what seperates us from the Cylons. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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