Yes, I know the show is not on anymore, and yes I know that I'm a bit late in putting this up here, but I have a reason for it. Over the past few weeks I have enjoyed watching all of the episodes of the series, beginning with The Plan (which in hindsight might not have been such a good idea because of the changes made either to the movie or show, which one I'm not sure as I never followed it before now.) and continuing until the series finale. This I will say they did an amazing job on and I thought they could not have ended the show better. That includes the deaths and disappearances that occurred. Just wouldn't have seemed right any other way I don't think. But here's my deal. I FRAKIN LOVE THE SHOW!! And if you've ever watched BSG (Battlestar Galactica) then frak is not a new word to you. It is now my favorite word in the world, replacing culdesac... hmmm this gives me an idea for another posting.... but anywho, back to the subject at hand. This show is excellent and I recommend that anyone who enjoys the Sci-Fi genre check it out.
So here's the scoop, a very much abridged version of it anyway.....
Twelve Colonies (planets) form the basis for the story. (Each one is named after an astrological sign actually, with a little change to the name itself such as Caprica and Picon.) The Colonies are attacked and the majority of humanity is decimated by the Cylons because of a Six obtaining information from the defense system. The only survivors were people (also some Cylons who blend in, but we'll get to that later) who managed to get onto battleships like Galactica and those few known as "The Resistance" who managed to survive the attack on Caprica. Somewhere around 50,000 people survived in total and all became part of a fleet led by the Galactica.
One interesting thing I'd like to note about the show is that during the title sequence the number of survivors changes from week to week to show deaths, births, and the finding of others.
And so the show begins. It's all about humanities ability to survive and find a new place to exist, all the while running from constant Cylon attacks. Eventually you find out that they plan to find Earth and recreate humanity there, but the journey is long and much happens. Too much to get into in one post here as a matter of fact.
I did want to touch on one more subject while I'm on the ramble about the show and that is the Cylons themselves. They were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies, essentially machines that evolved and began to blend into human society. There are 12 Cylon models which were made (which actually turns out to be 13 in total), with thousand or even millions of copies of each made. When one Cylon dies, its memories are downloaded into another copy and they return to living the life of the original. There are some confusing aspects to the stories of the Cylon individuals if you don't pay attention to the show, but if you do it's not so hard to figure out which copy is which. Anyway, the ones in the show that you pretty much know are Cylons the whole time are One through Eight. The last five only come out in the last season and one of Cylons doesn't even have a personal role in the story other than the various mentions of him being a defective model which was "boxed" (put into cold storage).
There's so much more detail and information that I could include about the show but that would turn into the longest post I have ever created.... which I will not bore you to tears with. Not today anyway. I might just end up writing about them again some day in another post, but who knows. I just felt the need to write about the awesomeness of the show and give a very general view of the storyline. There's so much more to it though and you'd have to watch it to get it all.
Suffice it to say, I think the show is amazing and well worth the time it took for me to write this, which wasn't long so....
I hope you enjoy it if you get the chance to check it out. Clickety click the linky above if you wanna check out one of the many sites dedicated to the show. It's the link from the Sci-Fi...oh, my apologies, the Scy-Fy (why they changed it I haven't a clue) channel so I figure it's the best one.
So here's the scoop, a very much abridged version of it anyway.....
Twelve Colonies (planets) form the basis for the story. (Each one is named after an astrological sign actually, with a little change to the name itself such as Caprica and Picon.) The Colonies are attacked and the majority of humanity is decimated by the Cylons because of a Six obtaining information from the defense system. The only survivors were people (also some Cylons who blend in, but we'll get to that later) who managed to get onto battleships like Galactica and those few known as "The Resistance" who managed to survive the attack on Caprica. Somewhere around 50,000 people survived in total and all became part of a fleet led by the Galactica.
One interesting thing I'd like to note about the show is that during the title sequence the number of survivors changes from week to week to show deaths, births, and the finding of others.
And so the show begins. It's all about humanities ability to survive and find a new place to exist, all the while running from constant Cylon attacks. Eventually you find out that they plan to find Earth and recreate humanity there, but the journey is long and much happens. Too much to get into in one post here as a matter of fact.
I did want to touch on one more subject while I'm on the ramble about the show and that is the Cylons themselves. They were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies, essentially machines that evolved and began to blend into human society. There are 12 Cylon models which were made (which actually turns out to be 13 in total), with thousand or even millions of copies of each made. When one Cylon dies, its memories are downloaded into another copy and they return to living the life of the original. There are some confusing aspects to the stories of the Cylon individuals if you don't pay attention to the show, but if you do it's not so hard to figure out which copy is which. Anyway, the ones in the show that you pretty much know are Cylons the whole time are One through Eight. The last five only come out in the last season and one of Cylons doesn't even have a personal role in the story other than the various mentions of him being a defective model which was "boxed" (put into cold storage).
There's so much more detail and information that I could include about the show but that would turn into the longest post I have ever created.... which I will not bore you to tears with. Not today anyway. I might just end up writing about them again some day in another post, but who knows. I just felt the need to write about the awesomeness of the show and give a very general view of the storyline. There's so much more to it though and you'd have to watch it to get it all.
Suffice it to say, I think the show is amazing and well worth the time it took for me to write this, which wasn't long so....
I hope you enjoy it if you get the chance to check it out. Clickety click the linky above if you wanna check out one of the many sites dedicated to the show. It's the link from the Sci-Fi...oh, my apologies, the Scy-Fy (why they changed it I haven't a clue) channel so I figure it's the best one.
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