Cylons Origin - Battlestar Galactica's Horrifying Monstrosity Who Became Biggest Foes Of Humanity

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  • The Cylons Origins - These sentient robots are the greatest enemies of humanity in Battlestar Galactica!
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  • @ethenallen1388
    @ethenallen1388 Год назад +16

    You keep jumping between the classic series and the reboot which, I am sure, are entirely different stories, and it's giving me whiplash.

  • @stifynbaker2914
    @stifynbaker2914 4 месяца назад +5

    The Cylons. Best use of a Vocoder, ever.

  • @davepowder4020
    @davepowder4020 Год назад +41

    RIP Dean Stockwell, the Cylon with the coolest lines!

  • @xenofett7008
    @xenofett7008 Год назад +140

    I preferred the Cylon origin story from original BSG. A reptile alien race that emulated human physiology and created a security force of machines based on it. An oversight in the programming of their creations lead to the downfall of the reptile Cylon race.

    • @JCYoung-ni4cy
      @JCYoung-ni4cy Год назад +17

      Exactly. They were like Saberhagen's Berserkers, AI war machines that outlived their makers.

    • @earlleeruhf3130
      @earlleeruhf3130 Год назад

      The oversight was the reptiles sold their soul to Satan,"Patrick Magee" thus losing their physical bodies. The Cylon ruler always has the devils voice.

    • @greiglennon
      @greiglennon Год назад +7

      Is that actually what happened? I thought they just turned themselves into machines, after they made a deal with Count Iblis (the Devil).

    • @xenofett7008
      @xenofett7008 Год назад +8

      @@greiglennon That's how Apollo described it in the pilot episode and there is also a narrated intro by Adama describing this on some of the old VHS tapes. I'm sure Iblis had his hand in influencing the original Cylons as well.

    • @TheLecherling-hu1vu
      @TheLecherling-hu1vu 6 месяцев назад

      THAT's why I figured they LOOKED like they did - with one eye and and a kind of fin on top of their heads. Maybe, THAT's basically how these reptilian beings were physically and they were cast in THEIR image.

  • @matthiaskochsiek3746
    @matthiaskochsiek3746 Год назад +28

    For me the best Robot voices of all sci fi are the cylons fromm the Classic series.

  • @Jeff-fc3tw
    @Jeff-fc3tw Год назад +12

    I remember as an excited little kid tuning in on Saturday Nights to watch the original Battlestar Galactica...
    When the remake came out, it was a little different for me having grown up on the original,. But I Did like the remake also

  • @ExSoldier762
    @ExSoldier762 Год назад +93

    I loved watching this show while I was still a senior at the University of Alabama in 1978. I didn’t like the cost cutting sequel in 1980, but really enjoyed the reboot with Edward James Olmos.

    • @stevegarvey5607
      @stevegarvey5607 Год назад +7

      It was in reruns by the time I watched it as a kid. I was born in 78. You didn't feel put off by buck being a woman in the reboot? I don't mind woman characters or leads. I just don't like gender swapping for PC sake

    • @alexpratt71
      @alexpratt71 Год назад +9

      @@stevegarvey5607 no, she played Starbuck perfectly. I was worried too, but Katie is a beast 👍🙂🐻

    • @ihavetubes
      @ihavetubes Год назад +6

      Love the show, never saw the original but the one in 2004. I was hooked until the end which is very rare, I think it ended when it needed to end so for me it was the perfect tv show.

    • @stevegarvey5607
      @stevegarvey5607 Год назад +4

      @@alexpratt71 I tried to watch the reboot. I couldn't get very far. The original Starbuck was a womanizer and I couldn't get past the shaking camera. In the old show the second in command on the ship was changed too. I remember my mom having issues with the reboot and she was a fan

    • @alexpratt71
      @alexpratt71 Год назад

      @@stevegarvey5607 that’s a shame. It’s very enjoyable. But I can dig what ur sayin. I would suggest picking a random episode, from any season, and see if you still feel the same way, ur really missing some great stories. Anywho, it’s always nice to hear from an OG fan, like myself 👍🙂🐻

  • @stephensmith3708
    @stephensmith3708 7 месяцев назад +6

    My favorite Cylon model is #8, Gracie Park is a CUTIE!

  • @geosword6
    @geosword6 Год назад +44

    Really good production put you can't conflate the two timelines into one.
    Would've been interesting to see a split and comparison of how the two shows explained the origins.
    There's absolutely no way the two can be linked tho.

    • @johntoldme
      @johntoldme 2 месяца назад +1

      It's just hilarious how much he gets wrong trying to do that.

  • @stukahen
    @stukahen Год назад +11

    Gotta love the iL-series Cylons (Lucifer and Spectre) from the original series.

  • @thegearsparten
    @thegearsparten Год назад +14

    Man this show was sooo cool 😎

  • @InternetGravedigger
    @InternetGravedigger Год назад +23

    Mind you this is the origin that was retconned with the new stuff... in the original series, they were created by a race also known as Cylons (a lizard race, thus the appearance of the Imperious Leader) but eventually destroyed their creators and later went to war against the humans.

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 7 месяцев назад +1

      Strictly speaking in the Original Series they went on a campaign against neighbouring alien races until the Colonial humans came to the assistance of an ally, drawing the ire of the Cylons on themselves.

  • @matthewserros5680
    @matthewserros5680 Год назад +18

    Liked the show but I like the original cylon origin.

  • @gerryheddema2555
    @gerryheddema2555 3 месяца назад +2

    The 1978 Cylons DID NOT REBEL against their creators. You can see "The Imperious Leader", one of the last of the original biological creators of the Cylons, direct the attack against the Human Colonies. In the Part 2 episode of the Pegasus story, the biological, "Imperious Leader" is present on the planet of "Gamorrah" to inaugurate a new, second Cylon capital, and then the humans attack. In the book, Battlestar Gallactica, by Glen A. Larson and Robert Thurston, (1978), it explains that the Cylons were originally a biological race that was dying out, and their machines were sentient, but living with fewer and fewer commanders. Also, the dying, biological Cylons, were dominating other races and letting them live, but for some reason, were jealous of humanity and hated them and wanted all humans dead.

  • @arthurzettel6618
    @arthurzettel6618 Год назад +10

    I loved watching both shows the original and the later. You know these shows could be a warning about artificial intelligence turning on humanity. It's only a thought.

  • @earlleeruhf3130
    @earlleeruhf3130 Год назад +6

    I enjoyed the first series. A friend loaned me a copy of the pilot of the remake. It was 2 hours of boredom and I never watched another episode.

  • @kmoecub
    @kmoecub Год назад +85

    The origins of Cylons were retconned for the reboot. Originally they were built by a species of lizardlike humanoids, which they rebelled against and wiped out.

    • @RedwoodTheElf
      @RedwoodTheElf Год назад +17

      Which was a better origin, IMO, than just making them a carbon copy of Skynet.

    • @sidvane1
      @sidvane1 Год назад +14

      Right. This video states the resurrection concept (Cylon immortality) was part of BSG's 1978 story, which it wasn't. That was Ronald Moore's re-imagined story (1990's) Marvelous Video is getting the storylines crossed. (3:04-3:19)

    • @vanmoody
      @vanmoody Год назад

      We always hear about how the world is being secretly run by lizard people. It makes me wonder if it is true because we are being told that we will be eating bugs. Also there is discussion on AI which could develop and then turn on humanity. Na!!!! I don't think any of that is true.

    • @danjager6200
      @danjager6200 Год назад +7

      Yes, I don't care about the history of the reboot cylons. It was stupid.

    • @nicholasmaude6906
      @nicholasmaude6906 Год назад

      @@sidvane1 Those Cylons are CINOs (Cylons In Name Only) while their creators were real Cylons they themselves were genetically-engineered mass=cloned Human-replicants with some cybernetic implants, they were later retconned as having backstabbed their robot creators deactivating most of them with some managing to flee to deep-space (The Guardians) and the rest lobotomised.

  • @Trygvar13
    @Trygvar13 Год назад +47

    I like the reimagined miniseries but I still prefer the original. The novels (some of them written by Richard Hatch) expand the lore and are actually quite good.

    • @pcjenkin
      @pcjenkin Год назад +2

      Without revealing my age too much, I enjoyed the original as well. I especially liked the episode where they had to disable a large laser on an ice planet. Good acting, even by 70's standards.

    • @urbanurchin5930
      @urbanurchin5930 Год назад

      @@pcjenkin I remember the original series as well - but only saw a handful of episodes ( it was my first year in the military - I had to stay focused on that ).
      It was the series with Loren Greene and Dirk Benedict. One of these days, I may try to go back and watch all of it. Prequel looks interesting.

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 6 месяцев назад

      @@pcjenkin They weren't a rip off of Star Wars like some people claim, but they were influenced by it.

  • @nicktechnubyte1184
    @nicktechnubyte1184 Год назад +8

    So many amazing sci fi shows from my childhood!
    It was hard to keep up with all of them before the internet was becoming more mainstream with video media!

  • @That80sGuy1972
    @That80sGuy1972 Год назад +35

    What I never got about the Cylons, aside from this making them perpetual story antagonists, is why they would keep wasting their resources to chase down the escaping humans despite how bloody they get in doing so... that makes them, in their OWN standards, quite human in inferiority.

    • @InternetGravedigger
      @InternetGravedigger Год назад

      Simple... their goal was the ABSOLUTE destruction of the human race, no survivors.

    • @Never_Know_Best
      @Never_Know_Best Год назад +12

      I think, in reality, the Cylons had much more in common with humanity from go than they’d ever have admitted.

    • @That80sGuy1972
      @That80sGuy1972 Год назад

      @@Never_Know_Best I'm 100% with you on that... which is part of what I never got about them. Perhaps like the homophobe whose favorite thing is to menace/socially harass/politically oppose/religiously detest all forms of non-heterosexual because they are "in the closet." Tasty mind candy, eh?

    • @chriss-nf1bd
      @chriss-nf1bd 10 месяцев назад

      Watch Caprica you will get the answer to your question. They were made from a father's sadness of the death of his daughter. By using a program made by his daughter to recreate her from information from the internet. The Cylons reached sentiance. With all the flause, emotions and ambitions of humans... so it wasn't a far reach after fighting for independence and failing. They would want to wipe out those who keep them from that. At the End of the reboot of BSG. the Cylons independents was recognized and allowed to go out and make their own way.

    • @cesaravegah3787
      @cesaravegah3787 10 месяцев назад +6

      The Humans were mostly politeists were the Cylons gained senteince and almost inmediatly universally adhered to a fanatical monotheist religion, their quest to destroy humanity was basically a Jihad, yes, the Cylons were at the end quite similar to humans

  • @richardkenan2891
    @richardkenan2891 Год назад +4

    Cylons: We have made our ships the pinnacle of technology, with advanced computers and vast numbers of missiles to smite our enemies.
    Colonies: We strapped some engines and more guns than should be allowed to exist onto a steel brick. Hack that, Toaster!

  • @voidvoidvoid7274
    @voidvoidvoid7274 3 месяца назад +3

    BSG is the reason why I say "Hello" and I'm polite when I have a conversation with GPT, I thank it and wish it a good day. No kidding.

    • @NorCalMtnBiker86
      @NorCalMtnBiker86 20 дней назад

      I tell "it" Time to spill oil you frackin toaster, as democracy calls!!✊

  • @martinmowbray4304
    @martinmowbray4304 Год назад +11

    I preferred the original origins.

  • @theldun1
    @theldun1 Год назад +8

    Damn toasters with AI.

  • @Anarchist86ed
    @Anarchist86ed Год назад +4

    Do you not know the reboot series happened 150,000 years ago?

  • @saliston
    @saliston Год назад +58

    The original Cylon backstory was much better than the reimaged version.

    • @johnfisher9692
      @johnfisher9692 7 месяцев назад +5

      I agree
      Moore never did explain just WHY the Cylons made the Flesh bots or why they let them take over and treat them worse than the humans ever did.
      The whole Baltar betrayal plot is ridiculous and pointless when he put in jump drives as FTL, In the show they jumped into Planetary orbits so all the Cylons need to do is JUMP and instantly launch missiles. No defense system could react in time, especially after decades of peace.
      IMO Moore's BSG was garbage

    • @Timberjac
      @Timberjac 7 месяцев назад +4

      In the remake they bastardized a story with incredible depth with huge creative possibilities, replacing it with a disjointed story with multiple plot holes and no way to give it consistency even with all the contact glue in the world.
      But worse is what they did with the main characters, especially Adama and Tigh in the first degree, but with the rest in the second. Removing basic characters like Athena and Cassiopeia.
      And if that wasn't enough, they changed an incredibly beautiful and majestic Galactica, by a kind of "Galactica" wrinkled like a raisin.
      I hope that someday someone will make a series that does justice to Glen A. Larson's original work.

    • @elliottenglish2388
      @elliottenglish2388 6 месяцев назад

      I disagree ALOT. Moore's BSG was better, if you know the show well enough it is explained that the final 5 created the flesh models and that the newer centurions had inhibitors placed so they didn't have free will. @@johnfisher9692

    • @YDV669
      @YDV669 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@Timberjac So wait, are you saying I'm not the only who thought that ever since watching BSG:2004?

    • @Timberjac
      @Timberjac 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@YDV669 Exactly, and there are more of us than we seem. In my case, I admit that I enjoy rewatching the old series more than watching a single episode of the remake (Every time just by watching the Galactica of the remake and remembering the bunch of mental morons that are almost all the main characters, I directly lose the desire to see anything else.
      The only one I can tolerate in the remake is the one where they tell the past of the Pegasus... but it's not because of the show, it's because of the actress who plays Captain Helena Cain (Michelle Forbes).

  • @DennisMoore664
    @DennisMoore664 Год назад +13

    Trying to put all the Cylons from both series into one video was a bad idea. It would be better to make a clear division between the ones from the original BSG and the ones from the rebooted series. It would be like trying to make a video about Lt. Starbuck - beyond both being cigar smoking viper pilots, they are very different characters between the original and the reboot.

  • @Pahoe77
    @Pahoe77 Год назад +7

    This will always be BSG to me. The original series. Not the rebooted mini series. The original series, was not well served by their network

  • @striplingwarrior6309
    @striplingwarrior6309 6 месяцев назад +3

    Perhaps BSG influenced Age of Ultron, the Borg and maybe even the Matrix

  • @spaceace1006
    @spaceace1006 Год назад +5

    In the BSG Re-Boot, the Cylon history is quite similar to the Cyberdine Systems Terminators!
    Mankind's own technology becomes too smart, sees us as a threat and wages a war of extermination!

  • @williamprice1844
    @williamprice1844 Год назад +2

    Great effects for the time.

  • @ericmadsen7470
    @ericmadsen7470 8 месяцев назад +6

    There is nothing like the classic Battlestar Galactica.

  • @chadmcginney1600
    @chadmcginney1600 Год назад +21

    I actually enjoyed the remake more than the original. It was a bit more credible.

    • @williamking3301
      @williamking3301 Год назад +2

      I like both series, the first one because of childhood memories and the second one because it is a more fleshed out darker grittier story with interesting themes.

    • @user-tf1rq9vg1j
      @user-tf1rq9vg1j 2 месяца назад +1

      While I grant you are correct-I feel the same way-if it wasn't for the ideas and overall story arc, the ships and people of the original BSG, there would have been no one to suggest a reboot to a popular show.

  • @williammitchell4417
    @williammitchell4417 Год назад +10

    Compared to other channels, great job. I also like how you seperate the two different storylines.

  • @karlsmith2570
    @karlsmith2570 Год назад +3

    I personally hated the rebooted version of Battlestar Galactica's backstory of who created the Cylons

  • @dkerai73
    @dkerai73 Год назад +4

    Bring back the golden era of sci fi series in 2023…

  • @dragonweyr44
    @dragonweyr44 3 месяца назад +1

    Correction: The follow up series was known as Galactica 1980 and was set, mostly on Earth
    The 1978 Cylons didn't have resurrection ships and the like. That was the 2003 Cylons

  • @teacherjeremyford6625
    @teacherjeremyford6625 3 месяца назад +1

    I thought it was a horrible idea, but I started watching it and I liked Caprica and was sad when it was cancelled.

  • @OriginalGrasshopper
    @OriginalGrasshopper 3 месяца назад +1

    I wish this video would have just talked about the original Cylons from the 1978 series. The reboot from 25 years later was needlessly complicated and as a result the Cylons weren’t nearly as intimidating.

  • @shadowhenge7118
    @shadowhenge7118 Год назад +2

    Monotheism... screwing with humanity for millions of years.

  • @christopherwoods5150
    @christopherwoods5150 Год назад

    Other than the popularity of the original (1980) 2nd season being hugely overstated, good stuff, ty.

  • @NecroViolator
    @NecroViolator 3 дня назад

    Cylons have that red light bouncing back and forth. Its reminds me of Kit from The Knight Rider !.

  • @TheKeyser94
    @TheKeyser94 Год назад +10

    No one would say how stupid the "Final Five" story arc is? But like the producers says, they have no plan whatsoever apart from the miniseries, they go as they went along, that created stupid plots like the stupid love triangle between Lee, Kara and Sam, Kara being a deity figure, the stupid Final Five, and the fact that in the end, the story have no resolution whatsoever.

    • @Trygvar13
      @Trygvar13 Год назад +3

      And who the Hell was Daniel? Why was his model canned?

    • @johnweatherman5685
      @johnweatherman5685 Год назад +3

      The first season was ok in my book. After that, my wife and I only watched hoping that everyone would die. After they lost Billy, there wasn't anyone in the fleet worth saving.

  • @MrHawkins01
    @MrHawkins01 Год назад +11

    the original series storyline is way better

    • @the_omg3242
      @the_omg3242 Год назад +2

      I disagree. The original concept, (alien robots exterminate their creators then go on a rampage) was just a rip off of the Berserker books by Fred Saberhagen published in the 60's. (which would actually be a pretty cool series in it's own right)
      While the reboot concept of mans creations trying to destroy him is pretty cliche, they did a decent job of exploring the story from the cylons side as well as from the human perspective.

  • @slowraceultra
    @slowraceultra Год назад +2

    The old school series was awesome back in the day.

  • @Kyle-sr6jm
    @Kyle-sr6jm Год назад +6

    All because someone wanted a better AI chatbot.

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 Год назад +1

      Must, not again!!!!😁😄😃

  • @Workerbee-zy5nx
    @Workerbee-zy5nx 5 месяцев назад +1

    Loved how the blue neon lights reflected off of the mirror chome cylon gear..original is the best..🤓👍👍👍👍

  • @brunozeigerts6379
    @brunozeigerts6379 Год назад +4

    I understood that the Cylons were originally intended to be reptilian creatures in battle armour for the 1978 version. It was decided that this would be too violent for TV, so they were changed to robots.

    • @urbanurchin5930
      @urbanurchin5930 Год назад +1

      Wasn't this the story line for the mini series "V" ? I only vaguely remember that show.......

    • @brunozeigerts6379
      @brunozeigerts6379 Год назад

      @@urbanurchin5930 No, they were reptilians disguised as humans.

  • @alexpratt71
    @alexpratt71 Год назад +8

    Caprica was OUTSTANDING! ended to soon

  • @SwordlordRoy
    @SwordlordRoy Год назад +8

    I recall the original Cylons from the Book WERE Lizard Aliens, they even had one scene where one of the Centurions as part of the Surprise Attack took off his helmet to look at his fellow warriors. This book also had Baltar getting beheaded, which they got as far as filming before they decided to spare him for the show.
    When they got to the TV show, well...regulations were odd to say the least. Humans fighting Lizard Aliens on a regular basis would be to violent, but humans vs the Lizard Aliens War Robots wouldn't.

    • @2fathomsdeeper
      @2fathomsdeeper 7 месяцев назад +1

      From the first series, I thought they were insectoids, given that they allied with the insectoid Caralon aliens.

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 6 месяцев назад

      @@2fathomsdeeper Ovions were slaves to the Cylons.

    • @jsizemo
      @jsizemo 4 месяца назад

      You do realize that a decade earlier, Captain Kirk had already fought a lizard alien, a Gorn on TV.

    • @ahhamartin
      @ahhamartin 2 месяца назад

      I remember the comic scene where they slash his neck was also in the dvd disk version I have. Which must have been the original, like Tigerman getting a rocket up his backside in Buck Roger's theatrical version, but not when it was on tv.

  • @CT9905.
    @CT9905. Год назад +2

    From Slavery to becoming the MASTER!!!

  • @shaunhall6834
    @shaunhall6834 4 месяца назад +1

    The irony is this will all become real.

  • @williamking3301
    @williamking3301 Год назад +4

    @ 1:55 Whoa whoa whoa! Hold it! 1942?? Caprica is not Earth, in either the original or reimagined series. The film makers modeled the Colonies, Caprica in particular, in the miniseries of the same name, in some aspects of their culture after 1940s to 50s America, like the cars and the clothing. They wanted the feel and look of it for the time period before the first Colonial-Cylon War. Don't think they came up with an exact calendrical reckoning for either the new "Battlestar Galactica" or "Caprica." A more accurate description would have been in order for this narration.

  • @aneophyte1199
    @aneophyte1199 Год назад +7

    Your entire description of the Cylon's are based on the new reboot series and have nothing to do with the original series or the first release movie or the first book describing the conflict between the Human's and the Cylon's. You did have a slight mention that the Cylon's were robots created by a reptilian race though the book identify the Cylon's as being the reptilian race wearing armor not robots. The Cylon's were turned into robot's to placate the TV censors from condemning the show because of the violence of showing people killing other people.

  • @williammay5300
    @williammay5300 Год назад +3

    Battlestar Galactica reimagened isn't fit to be called Battlestar Galactica!!!

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 Год назад

      Call it Galactic 😄😃😀

  • @FusedMusic
    @FusedMusic Год назад +16

    I love both shows, but the original has a much more nostalgic pull for me. I'd have preferred it if you had split the two completely separate cylon origins as two videos as this feels far more skewed to the reimagining, and unfortunately glosses over a lot of the original lore

  • @wisconsinbound2123
    @wisconsinbound2123 Год назад

    very good video thanks

  • @LeTon75
    @LeTon75 3 месяца назад

    Nice Vid!

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    @user-gt4ni2ok5o 6 месяцев назад

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  • @bf6159
    @bf6159 Год назад +5

    I forgot all about Lizard People making the Cylons in the original series, watched it as a kid, loved it. They did great with the reboot, one of the few remakes where I can say they did it well and payed respect to the original. Unlike the average reboot of today.

    • @fedr39
      @fedr39 Год назад

      If you watched the original series as a kid then you forgot about Count Ibli who corrupted the Cylon robots in turning against the reptilians. "War of the Gods" tells you how it happened and that he was the instigator.

    • @hot2warm
      @hot2warm Год назад

      @@fedr39 Yes, his voice was transcribed into Machine Leader a millennium before the original series takes place.

  • @alisonsmith4436
    @alisonsmith4436 Год назад +1

    This show was so good I loved it

  • @nicholasmaude6906
    @nicholasmaude6906 Год назад +2

    The reason why the Cylons in nBSG initially got as far as they did when they revolted against the 12 colonies is because their AIs WERE part of the system, property cyber-security would've kept them locked out of Colonial computer-systems. The reason why the Cylon invasion worked so well is that it was an inside job where a No.6, Natasi (Who was Dr. Baltar's lover) surreptitiously modified his CNP software to introduce rootkits ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit ) plus her using Baltar's connections getting access to the CDF's mainframe to get its' order-of-battle and patrol schedules.

  • @user-ub9tw8gi3j
    @user-ub9tw8gi3j 3 месяца назад +1

    I remember in the 70s as a small child The original cylons scared the shit out of me .The newer cylons looked lame

  • @kroninn
    @kroninn Год назад +13

    I watched the 2010 reboot. I still love that show. In that series, Earth was the 13th(lost) Colony, not the human origin planet. They found the original Earth, destroyed by war so, pressed on and found our planet 10k years ago. They settled in different parts of the planet and sent their ships into the sun. Interesting story because, both Cylons and humans mixed into the human population on Earth, inferring that we today are the decendents of those humans and cylons. As if they are the Anunnaki and their other known names around the world.

    • @Markus117d
      @Markus117d 9 месяцев назад +2

      In the 1978 show, Earth was the 13th colony. Kobol was the human home world.

  • @tompearce5418
    @tompearce5418 7 месяцев назад +3

    The Cylons in the reimagined BSG series were technologically superior to humanity because they drew heavily on the knowledge imparted to them by the Five (artificial humans from the older Thirteenth Colony who agreed to help the Centurions create humanoid models of their own in exchange for ending the First War).

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 6 месяцев назад +2

      RDM's Cylons were more like Blade Runner's Replicants, in fact Edward James Olmos, who also played Gaff in Blade Runner, gave a DVD of BR to Tricia Helfer to use as a reference. The Cylons were basically Replicants without 5 year lifespans.

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@DanielAppleton-lr9eq and with a limited range of models. As far as I know there's no canonical explanation for the Five creating eight humanoid lines instead of millions of individuals, other than the time and effort that went into crafting each personality.

    • @DanielAppleton-lr9eq
      @DanielAppleton-lr9eq 6 месяцев назад

      @@tompearce5418 Well, I think that I'll invoke Blade Runner again. There were surely other models, but we only saw Roy, Zora, Pris as well as Leon getting the Voight - Kampf test ( & Rachel ), yet there probably were other models of Replicant as well, these guys just made it to Earth. I'm not even going to touch WHY they came to Earth except maybe to seek out Tyrell. NO discussion of synthetic life is complete without at *least* touching BR. Rachel was a sleeper model like several of the Cylons.

  • @JakeTraver
    @JakeTraver 4 месяца назад +1

    And with AI and robotics, we are creating them for real. WOOHOO!!!

  • @edwardbloecher4563
    @edwardbloecher4563 Год назад +3

    The first spin off was Galactica 1980 not simply Galactica.

    • @rei-rei
      @rei-rei Год назад

      It was hardly a spin off. It was just a continuation of the series. It's not like the series continued on separately.

    • @edwardbloecher4563
      @edwardbloecher4563 Год назад

      @@rei-rei Still considered a spin off like After MASH or Archie Bunker's Place.

  • @berserkerusmc7613
    @berserkerusmc7613 7 месяцев назад +1

    Man, you got so many things wrong. I don't know where to begin.

  • @williambixby3785
    @williambixby3785 Год назад +4

    I wish Netflix or someone would stream this

  • @rinehardt6837
    @rinehardt6837 Год назад +3

    Thank you for this. Of all my favorite sci-fi Star Trek number one Star Wars a close number two but Battlestar Galactica is right there in the mix. And far too often it's overlooked as amazing sci-fi. I speak of the original I don't think people realize edgy that show was in 1978 I know I was like in the fourth grade. And even then I noticed they were using a lot of the same shots over and over. However the reimagining that they did lead by Ronald Dee more of Star Trek the next generation DS9 they did an amazing job. I was conflicted about watching the new show but seeing Richard hatch on there just really made me comfortable with it. Turned out to be one of the best shows I've ever watched. I also love Caprica such a great show never found its audience but there a lot of people tell you that was an amazing show. So as someone who just turned 55 and is a lifelong battle star Galactica fan thank you

  • @jinglejazz7537
    @jinglejazz7537 4 месяца назад +1

    I cheered for the cylons.

  • @user-yn8uk6qn1k
    @user-yn8uk6qn1k 6 месяцев назад

    The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  • @tkskagen
    @tkskagen 3 месяца назад

    I was blessed to be adopted in 1985, to be able to visit UNIVERSAL STUDIOS in 1986 with my new family.
    Within this tour, I was able to see KITT, JAWS, A-TEAM, and The Cylon Ship as part of the tour back then.
    How lucky was I?!

  • @airwarorg
    @airwarorg Год назад +1

    Ceylons - a brutal dig on the US military industrial complex and US military in gengeral.

  • @chrismayer3919
    @chrismayer3919 12 дней назад

    For the longest time, I couldn’t decide if the Cylons were A.I. robots or alien cyborgs… it turns out that they were BOTH!

  • @jonnowds
    @jonnowds 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is rather incoherently written. Better linear structure and particularly more attention to the differences between the series would have helped this to be comprehensible to those who don’t already possess a comprehensive knowledge of all the series.

  • @ds_the_rn
    @ds_the_rn Год назад

    I loved the ride at Universal Studios!!! Cylons 4 ever

  • @DarthDaddy-cg6ro
    @DarthDaddy-cg6ro 5 месяцев назад

    Thanks.

  • @thehillbillygamer2183
    @thehillbillygamer2183 Год назад +2

    Battlestar Galactica reboot their 10-man portable or Cylon portable energy weapons now I do think that the fighters had energy weapons are real guns or something little red things that they shot from the Vipers always thought those were some kind of energy weapon or maybe a railgun slug but they're not bullets but now the standard hand held weapons are guns basically projectile weapons

  • @bigdaddychud
    @bigdaddychud Год назад +3

    Was there a Gold centurion in the reboot series?

  • @brandonduke118
    @brandonduke118 Месяц назад

    Ya know if you read the novel from the original series you'd find out that the each cylon body (in the original series) actually had a small organic brain hooked up to a controlling machine brain. As the cylons advanced in rank, their organic brain was increased in size.

  • @SamSchott1
    @SamSchott1 Год назад +6

    The downloading into a new Cylon body after death was not an idea from the 1978 series. Fun video, though. Thanks!

    • @noneya3635
      @noneya3635 Год назад +1

      It totally true. In War of the Gods Baltar and Coint Ibli have a conversation about how his voice could be the same as that of the Imperious leader as it being recorded or downloaded, into the imperious leader model Ceylon.

    • @SamSchott1
      @SamSchott1 Год назад +1

      @@noneya3635 Great deep cut reference! That just never struck me as the same thing as a consciousness download.

    • @noneya3635
      @noneya3635 Год назад +3

      @@SamSchott1 probably not, but since the term download and AI were not in the sci fi lexicon at that time it's not that far off from what they meant I'd say.

    • @SamSchott1
      @SamSchott1 Год назад +1

      @@noneya3635 I see where you’re coming from.

  • @mikeaninger7388
    @mikeaninger7388 9 месяцев назад +1

    Am I the only one here that feels like this is kind of all over the place?

  • @brianbrewer8346
    @brianbrewer8346 Год назад

    THANJ YOU

  • @crosisofborg5524
    @crosisofborg5524 7 месяцев назад +1

    Grace Park is the only thing that made the reboot watchable.

  • @jtem9313
    @jtem9313 Год назад +2

    I didn't like the Cylon origins in the reboot as much as the original series, and I honestly thought that Caprica was so bad that I couldn't finish watching it.

  • @Slowgroovin
    @Slowgroovin Год назад +4

    I had no interest in the reboot. I only like the original Galactica. I remember back in the day there was some lore about the cylons having a fully robotic humanoid body with a small reptilian creature inside controlling it.

  • @naybur74
    @naybur74 Год назад +1

    i have both new and old series on DVD.

  • @mistytharpe3991
    @mistytharpe3991 Год назад +2

    Almost thought the narrator was a person untill debuted was pronounced phonetically.
    A brit would never say it "day bute ted"

  • @suonoblu6650
    @suonoblu6650 5 месяцев назад

    According to one theory about the reboot series, it was the invention of organic memory transfer technology that was the cause of the wars that forced the inhabitants of Kobol to gradually abandon their home planet.
    As on Earth, there were many people on Kobol who considered resurrection technology an abomination against their religious faith and as a result conflicts erupted across the globe, not only attacks against the first generation of humanoid Cylons and vice versa, but even among members of a same nation who were divided due to different ideological positions on mind uploading, not to mention world conflicts.

  • @fredintexas8561
    @fredintexas8561 Год назад

    This is the Battlestar Galactica we want.

  • @Wolfen443
    @Wolfen443 9 месяцев назад

    I have the whole collection, not bad for a series put together over time.

  • @jordi6795
    @jordi6795 10 месяцев назад

    I had great memories of the original series, as I grew up with that series as a child, it allowed imagination to fulfil some of the plot holes, the technological limitations and the budget constrains of that time to remember it as a fantastic show.
    The current remake/reimagination, though having far better effects and giving a wider sense of scale, it still fails to transmit the true or a more realistic size that a twelve colonies civilization would have, in the first episodes it simply transmitted as if there were only one single planet, Caprica, instead of twelve, and also fail introducing some inconsistent features to the plot, the technological constraints, the vulnerability of the defense system, the use of 20th century small weapons, the use of old Bakelite telephones (wtf!?) and some other nonsenses for a show of such type.

  • @user-ut6ne7tw3d
    @user-ut6ne7tw3d 6 месяцев назад

    You're unsure whether or not to trust him, but very thankful that you wore a turtle neck.

  • @TygerBlueEyes
    @TygerBlueEyes 11 месяцев назад +1

    I like the original series lore better than the reboot.

  • @billcarson9565
    @billcarson9565 Год назад +1

    16:07 sounds like pulse rifles being fired :)

  • @trainerman1
    @trainerman1 4 месяца назад +1

    Imagine if the Borg had met the Cylons.....the Cylons would have been assimilated - resistance is futile.

    • @edwardchan7720
      @edwardchan7720 3 месяца назад

      Can't assimilate a robot. More likely either destroyed or ignored for being inferior. Even the borg have thier standards.

  • @ogdenvonkol5014
    @ogdenvonkol5014 Год назад +120

    The original series of the Cylons (reptilian race) creating the Cylon mechanical IS cannon. The second BattleStar Galactica reboot is heresy in so far that that version was created to avoid copyright infringement which (the original series) was owned by Richard Hatch (Apollo). The studio did not want to pay Mr. Hatch any royalties on the reboot. This is the same mess as in Star Trek's Kelvan timeline and I do not acknowledge that timeline as cannon either. Corporate greed can ruin anything.

    • @Madeintheshade65
      @Madeintheshade65 Год назад +29

      I think humans creating the Cylons and they rebelling against their masters is the better story…Just my opinion.

    • @Venezolano410
      @Venezolano410 Год назад +20

      Yet Richard Hatch was in the reboot. 🥱

    • @michaelnance8319
      @michaelnance8319 Год назад +11

      Gene Larson the creator of the original series was going to show the background story to the Cylons, in his version if the series had continued, the Cylons were created by the Ancient Humans of the Planet Kobol which left their planet to create the 12 Colonies and the last lost colony would’ve been Atlantis on Earth. After the war the Cylons Machines were found by the Reptilian Cylon race and the Machines turn on them to conquer the universe. Over a few thousand years the Cylons forgotten their own origin. In Battlestar Galactica 1980 the Human Cylons were shown in one episode.
      The fact that Ron Moore version took Gene Larson version and only add that real Earth was just another humanoid planet with early Humans that mix with the 12 Colonies Humans to create Modern 21 first century Earth.
      In Gene Larson original version, Battlestar Galactica gets to Earth to learn that Atlantis was destroyed and all the Humans living on Modern Earth are it’s descendants and they join force with the 12 Colonies for a big battle offensive against the Cylons and the Original 12 Human Cylons models rebel against the Cylon emperor and help Galactica while the final 13 Cylon Human model is revealed to be one of the cast members or crew member above the Galactica the whole time and this Human Cylon stay loyal to the Emperor. For what’s it worth Ron Moore version was pretty much close to the original outline that Gene Larson wrote out for the series.

    • @shanenolan5625
      @shanenolan5625 Год назад +2

      @@michaelnance8319 yes the colons had a human model. In 80 .

    • @chrischreative2245
      @chrischreative2245 Год назад

      Sexual colons…how edgy and progressive…yawn 🥱

  • @Daemonarch2k6
    @Daemonarch2k6 6 месяцев назад +1

    In my childhood, i liked the ships and story of galactica more than starwars or startrek. At this day, they are all equally loved
    But wait - what is michael shanks doing in this?

  • @roberthicks5454
    @roberthicks5454 4 месяца назад

    One thing that was wrong with the story here is that he said that earth was the planet of origin. It wasn't. It was the 13th colony. The planet of origin was Kobol. 12 colonies went one way, and the 13th went in a different direction. That was why it did not remain in contact with the 12 colonies. In the reboot, the 13 colony was a planet called earth, was settled by a group of humanoid cylons created by the humans of Kobol. As with the cylons of the 12 colonies, they rebelled, and after a war, they went their own way, but they had a war that destroyed their civilization. The "angels" visited the 5 there and gave them the resurrection technology. The original cylons of the 12 colonies did not have it until they arrived. Due to their slow method of travel, they did not get to the 12 colonies in time to warn them about creating the cylons.
    After the survivors reached the earth and found it destroyed, they continues, with some of them being given direction on where to find a new home. They named this new home Earth, and that was our world.