OT: Season 3 BSG

Hugh Manatee · #1 November 27th, 2006, 12:42 AM

My crackpot birth of the cylon theories:

A: When the colonials say "cylon" I kinda think they mean it the same way when we say "robot". Any man made AI automoton would have been called a cylon, weather it was a armed securty centurion or an auto dishwasher bot.

B: In efforts to improve the capabilities of "cylons" they keep improving their AIs, not realizing that if they make then sentient they may seek independance. Furthermore it sounds like, from what I can recall of the miniseries prmier, they also had a large network not entirely unlike the internet linking all technology together. The colonials probably built a "sky-net" cylon, it got PO'd and h4x0r3D the cylons with it's own sentience program, war and chaos ensues ending ith the cylons retreating from the planets. Whatever sentience sent them haywire in the first place is possibly their "god" or invented their god for their AI to believe in, and seeing ahead decided to produce the retard chrome domes we have now to lessen the chance of rebellion.

C: We saw one of the original Cylon Centurion models in a museum exibit on the galactica, so we know that they've been upgrading themselves. Perhaps the 5 original models were horrific failures or maybe they did rebel and this is why we have shortbus toasters now and zealot skin jobs. I recall from the OBSG that the lucifer and other "clear plastic pinheaded stuffed with christmas lights with blinking wax lips" were kinda baskstabbing and one upping in nature, maybe they will use it.

Atrocities · #2 November 27th, 2006, 12:45 AM

"Hunny why is the dish washer bot holding my gu----"

I know what they became alive! Some sick *** demented women wanted to be free of her over loving rich husbands oppressive care so she hot wired her chrome toaster and programed it to kill. In doing so she accidently gave it living intelligence thus making it sentient.

Atrocities · #3 November 27th, 2006, 12:46 AM

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I recall from the OBSG that the lucifer and other "clear plastic pinheaded stuffed with christmas lights with blinking wax lips" were kinda baskstabbing and one upping in nature, maybe they will use it.

In DS9 they were called VORTA.

Randallw · #4 November 27th, 2006, 12:59 AM

Except of course the Vorta would die before turning on the founders. I always wondered why the Jem'Hadar had to be addicted to white when if you created them properly they should have a aneurysm if they ever opposed the founders. Then again I guess they had to fit the story. I have always thought having AIs become self aware and turn on you wouldn't really happen since if you REALLY made them properly they would be programmed not to. The whole uprising thing is a way of criticising humans as making errors when properly programming machines would avoid it.

I am wondering, anyone seen "Second Renaisance". What if the first cylon to rebel was like B1-66ER?

Hugh Manatee · #5 November 27th, 2006, 04:17 AM

thats what I was thinking of too, but I figured Sky-Net to be more well known (btw second renaisance was pretty badass)

Renegade 13 · #6 March 13th, 2007, 07:13 PM

I'm hoping it picks up for the last two episodes of the season. You'd think it would, being the season-finale and all, they have to sink in some hook to make you want to watch again next year.

AgentZero · #7 March 13th, 2007, 07:53 PM

Are we coming up on season finale time already. Galdarnit, now what's going to entertain me?!

Azselendor · #8 March 13th, 2007, 09:10 PM

I'm not saying that we haven't had great episodes since then, I'm just saying I feel the decline in quality started after that point.