BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Season 2A Part 10; NSCR/9.23.2005. Mid-Season Ending

[Kid Charlemagne]

I certainly don't get the impression that the entire Pegasus crew is bad people - The looks on the faces of the bridge crew and XO at the end of the episode pretty clearly indicated that there was some serious concerns about Cain's orders.

The assault on Pega-Six and Boomer really says a lot more about the people doing the assaulting than it does about the Cylons.

My personal view is that if a being is truly sentient, it is deserving of being treated in the same manner that another human being would be treated in times of war. I think Adama and Roslyn are coming around to this line of thinking. Once they get there, there may be a chance for resolution.

Having atrocities committed against you does not (IMO) give you the right to commit atrocities in return/revenge.

 

[Truth Seeker]

I certainly don't get the impression that the entire Pegasus crew is bad people - The looks on the faces of the bridge crew and XO at the end of the episode pretty clearly indicated that there was some serious concerns about Cain's orders.

The assault on Pega-Six and Boomer really says a lot more about the people doing the assaulting than it does about the Cylons.

My personal view is that if a being is truly sentient, it is deserving of being treated in the same manner that another human being would be treated in times of war. I think Adama and Roslyn are coming around to this line of thinking. Once they get there, there may be a chance for resolution.

Having atrocities committed against you does not (IMO) give you the right to commit atrocities in return/revenge.

Been trying to get that drummed out of the human mind for years....

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Are classic model cylons sentient?

 

[Truth Seeker]

Are classic model cylons sentient?

AHhhhhhh...good questions.Let's ask them ourselves.

-By Your Command-

ZeoW!! Zeow!!!

*Body hitting the floor*

 

[wingsandsword]

As for who started the war, we don't know the history of the Cylon Wars.

All we know is that humans created the Cylons, originally the "Chrome Toasters", as a servant race to ease life in the Twelve Colonies, then the Cylons started attacking the humans. Eventually there was an armistice, where the Cylons fled known space to find their own homeworld.

However, we don't know what started the war, or how the Cylons see the war. For all we know, the Cylons developed sentience after being built, and came to see themselves as a slave race and the Cylon War was their struggle for freedom from slavery. The Colonies could have decided to deactivate the Cylons or phase them out, and the Cylons saw it as a war for survival. The "Armistice" could just as easily been the Cylons realizing they had the means and location to leave Colonial space for a new home, having developed enough ships, and scouted out a new homeworld, and thus offering peace since their war had accomplished their goals.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Are classic model cylons sentient?

to you mean the clanks in the new series or the cylons in the old bsg series?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well the clanks in this series are the equivalent to the robotic models that were in the old series I'm thinking. Just an updated design.

 

[Rykion]

The Pegasus crew is definitely repugnant, but many of them should be redeemable. They've been stuck under a draconian commander, and have faced the worst case scenario anyone can think of. Six seems to be a seduction model. In their sick minds, the crew of Pegasus might be paying her back for something she did to them. You also have to remember what the Cylons are doing to the few remaining women they have captive on the Colonies.

My personal view is that if a being is truly sentient, it is deserving of being treated in the same manner that another human being would be treated in times of war. I think Adama and Roslyn are coming around to this line of thinking. Once they get there, there may be a chance for resolution.

Having atrocities committed against you does not (IMO) give you the right to commit atrocities in return/revenge.

The Colonists shouldn't be torturing the Cylons they capture, but since they are spies and saboteurs there is no reason not to execute them and incinerate their remains. The longer they leave them around, the more chance of them doing damage and gathering information. Sentient or not, the Cylons have wiped out the majority of humanity and seem to be mostly intent on finishing the job.

 

[Endur]

I liked the Pegasus episode.

Great stuff. I especially liked the new admiral.

Too bad they cut part of it from the broadcast for time reasons.

I was disappointed that Commander Adama and Admiral Cain were so quick to launch fighters. Earlier in the series, Adama, etc. agonized over martial law. Yet he is so quick to launch a military force now?

So that came close to breaking suspension of disbelief.

Also, I'm shocked that Baltar would say words out loud to the cylon prisoner, heedless of any electronic bugs or listening devices that are in the room.

 

[dravot]

I liked the Pegasus episode.

Great stuff. I especially liked the new admiral.

Too bad they cut part of it from the broadcast for time reasons.

I was disappointed that Commander Adama and Admiral Cain were so quick to launch fighters. Earlier in the series, Adama, etc. agonized over martial law. Yet he is so quick to launch a military force now?

So that came close to breaking suspension of disbelief.

Also, I'm shocked that Baltar would say words out loud to the cylon prisoner, heedless of any electronic bugs or listening devices that are in the room.

My only disappointment from the episode was the realization that we'd just had the same exact no-holds-barred-no-real-winners confrontations just 10 episodes ago (at the last season break).

I also thought of the bugs thing. Baltar would just babble about how he was saying stuff to gain the prisoner's confidence, they'll barely believe it and life will go on.