I like the idea that by the modern age, due to the Mitochondrial Eve thing, every human on earth in this here and now is a small bit Cylon. It's the one angle the previous societies didn't have. But I don't really see what they did as a cycle per se. I mean, the Kobol humans create artificial life, and eventually create it so well they create organic AI's. They have a war, their AI's go off in some other direction to a place they call "Earth". They wipe themselves out. A handful of the surviving Kobol AI's find the Cylons and stupidly recreate their own society with them, further damaging the Cylons in the process, and reducing them to soldier-bots all over again.
Basically, the entire modern war was between the Kobol-era AI's and humanity. The Cylons were the whipping-boys of both cultures for the series. I think their answer when they were finally let go was to start jumping for another galaxy, and never look back...
As for the angel angle, the original series was far more blatant with the angel thing, with the cities of light and the white-dressed people. But the thing of them was that no one else could see them, and the two viper pilots couldn't remember what they did there afterward. So I always assumed the Kara-as-angel thing was what it would look like if you coudln't see the episode that explains it all. You see the show from the viewpoint of the average person. There may be a Force out there moving them around, but you can't see them. Kara may well have been given instructions, but we never heard them. All we have to work with is the results.
The Viper thing was a little odd though. I mean, her viper exploded in a gas giant many thousands of Lightyears away from Cylon Earth. So how did it get there?
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Basically, the entire modern war was between the Kobol-era AI's and humanity. The Cylons were the whipping-boys of both cultures for the series. I think their answer when they were finally let go was to start jumping for another galaxy, and never look back...
As for the angel angle, the original series was far more blatant with the angel thing, with the cities of light and the white-dressed people. But the thing of them was that no one else could see them, and the two viper pilots couldn't remember what they did there afterward. So I always assumed the Kara-as-angel thing was what it would look like if you coudln't see the episode that explains it all. You see the show from the viewpoint of the average person. There may be a Force out there moving them around, but you can't see them. Kara may well have been given instructions, but we never heard them. All we have to work with is the results.
The Viper thing was a little odd though. I mean, her viper exploded in a gas giant many thousands of Lightyears away from Cylon Earth. So how did it get there?
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.