Thursday, April 22, 2010

Bideo Depati Manterola

A loving critique of BSG (Part I)



This article does not even pretend much less get involved or ridicule which is becoming one of my favorite series, but dig a little in her story and screenplay and make constructive criticism of some points that I find very interesting with it.


I am referring more or less than Battlestar Galactica (and more specifically the remake of 2003), a science fiction series set in an unspecified location in the universe in which there are 12 planets colonized by human. At one point in the history of the 12 colonies, the Cylon (about robots (at least originally) equipped with IA and created by humans) decide to rebel, and after a long war agree with humans over 12 hills to another site and follow their own path. Years later, when Homo sapiens you get the backfire and Homo cylonensis decide to return the favor to their creators, peppering the 12 planets of atomic bombs everywhere, so in summary, most of the species human is going to take the ass (at least approximately 50,000 population) and those who remain are forced to flee on several ships to other systems, always closely pursued by their robotic counterparts.

To begin I must say that I am impressed and pleased me greatly that the writer of the series has decided that what were once little more than toasters with machine guns to become cyborgs, employing genetic engineering while aside of course a high proficiency in mechanical engineering and computer science. I've always said that 3800 million years can not be wrong (this is how the flies and shit). Just look back to the Roman times, a civilization that absorbed and adapted to their own needs things he liked most of the people who was bent.


But where there is a great future, there is also a big problem. As one famous saying, something is one thing and another thing is another thing, and while we can imagine or even theorize about the possibility of combining biological and mechanical structures on a small scale, it is a bit disconcerting to start thinking on the same concept a large scale. Where I'm going with this? Well, that soldiers and Cylon Cylon flesh and blood seem so acceptable from a scientific point of view (in what may be) as unacceptable the Cylon raiders and the Cylon base star.

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