SPOILERS: 'Battlestar Galactica's' Adam And Eve?

SyFy Portal ^ | 06/17/08 | MICHAEL HINMAN

[buccaneer81]

Man, you must have told your kids that there's no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny or Tooth Fairy.

All in one night.

When they were five.

[Dr. Frank fan]

You don't buy the Brooklyn-WatchTower building scenario? Just thought it was cool.

Just for the sake of argument, there's no reason it couldn't have been the same site, and even the same building as the "Watch Tower". Maybe in the BSG universe, this "Watch Tower" eventually gets renamed/retasked to be the "Temple of Aurora" some number of years from now, and it's only well after that (and whatever holocaust took place) that the Galactica arrives.

[KevinDavis]

I’m a fan of both versions of the BSG (with the exception of show that shall not be mentioned) and I find both versions of BSG good. Granted the TOS was corny, but I guess we have to understand the time period back then. That is my take.. I’ll have to find some unfilmed scripts of the old BSG.

[buccaneer81]

See my post #46. The “Temple of Aurora” co-exists today with the WatchTower building!

[mad_as_he$$]

That was one of the best SciFi moments. When Apollo and Starbuck get up to leave and the signal comes in and it is Armstrong with the step quote. That was great stuff for the time. the rest of the original series ......not all that good.

[KevinDavis]

Good question.....

[Domandred]

What about the abortion plotline? Sure that started left but swang pretty far right when the reality of the situation sunk in.

[KevinDavis]

That was one the few classic moments of the original BSG..... The other being War of the Gods and the Living Legend.. The Terran arc was ok, but the last episode of the original was the best..

[TheWasteLand]

What was the Cylons's "plan"? Whatever happened to that?

I'm with you 100%. I like this description of the Cylon Plan, which I've "borrowed" from an infamous (and awesome) poster on another board:

The Cylon Plan Explained

1. Blow everyone up.
2. Breed with the radioactive leftovers.
3. Make them love you and/or steal their ovaries.
4. Admit you made a mistake.
5. Enslave them and/or blow them up. Again.
6. Find Earth. Repeat.

In fairness, the last point may now be out of date.

[TrishaSC]

with the exception of show that shall not be mentioned

Ohhh do tell! I’m new to these type of threads.

[KevinDavis]

Galactica 1980...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"a certain starship named Enterprise"

Better yet, Red Dwarf!

[TrishaSC]

I hear there are some clips on Youtube but I’ve heard such horrendous things about it that I’m staying away from them...lol. Wonder if J.K. stole the Flying motorcycle from the show...hehe.

[TrishaSC]

LOL...
love that.
This season the “All will be revealed” was pretty lame.

[Secret Agent Man]

Or more likely, Adam, Eve, Steve and Cheryl. All meshed together.

[6SJ7]

Remember that Baltar invented a "Cylon test", but it was a fake.

I seem to remember in the 'Cylon test' episode, Baltar administers the test to Boomer and it does detect her as a Cylon, but he does not reveal the results to her.

[KenM]

The name of this real-life building?

The Watch Tower.

If I remember correctly, the song that the four cylons on Galactica were hearing
in their heads was “All Along the Watch Tower”.

Coincidence?

[BenLurkin]

Yeah buddy!

[BenLurkin]

This the place?

[fr_freak]

Um there ain’t no liberal leanings.

Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahaha!

Oh, wait, you were serious?

Up until the whole New Caprica/Iraq debacle, I thought the new BSG was the most incredible sci-fi show ever and I thought, finally, a TV show I can enjoy which won't be full of mushy-headed left-wing thinking! Boy, was I wrong.

I don't remember exactly which left-wing item came first, but the New Caprica/Iraq parallel, with the Cylons representing the US, was just so blatantly left-wing, it was ridiculous. The suicide bombings didn't even make sense within the context of the show. Why not simply place a bomb with a timer in the location and walk away? There was absolutely no reason they had to commit suicide to accomplish their objective, but the writers wanted to make some social commentary, so they jammed it in there.

However, the thing that really made me sick was something a bit more subtle. See, one thing that made the show such an enjoyable romp was that it was a classic good vs. evil tale. We didn't even have to worry about the morality of it, because the evil ones were just machines, anyway. Then the hippie writers of BSG started inserting more and more of the left-wing navel-gazing where human characters started questioning whether the Cylons really deserved to be destroyed. Maybe they were really just some nice robots who were misunderstood, or maybe it was even our fault that they nearly wiped out the human race.

It started with Odama admitting that he had crossed into the neutral zone during peace time in violation of the treaty. Okay. But what made me actually stop watching the show was when one of the idiot pilots, who became more of a hippie with every episode, decided that he was single-handedly going to stop the humans from wiping out all of the Cylons at once. He killed the diseased Cylons before they could be used to infect the rest of them. Now, if you are a military fighter pilot, who, along with a meager 47,000 people out of some 13 billion that were decimated by the Cylons, is running for his life through the galaxy being relentlessly pursued by machines bent on your extinction, to turn around and say "I just don't think we have the right to arbitrarily exterminate an entire species", when referring to your impending mechanical executioners, then you have drunk far, far too much of the left-wing self-loathing kool-aid. I turned the show off at that point and have only recently checked back in only to see how they are going to end the show.

The left-wing mindset has absolutely dominated this show ever since the 2nd season or so.