Looks like Moore has borrowed a couple of pages from history and decided like Cortez to burn his ships on the Beach. He is auctioning off BSG memorabilia to fandom. He is leading up to the destruction of the Galactica with his recent revelation that Galactica has rotting bones and near destruction. Chance of someone after the final episode reviving the final episode will be costly. If the studio sees the series as a going concern Universal is going to have replace not just actors but whole sets and props. Should we salute Moore's audacity or wonder if he should just get the foul deed in one big intergalactic space battle were Adama gives Cavil his coming ups by ramming the Galactica full speed into the Cavil's base ship. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done"
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I will say Moore came up with the most interesting weapon system in scifi fandom. Gentlemen I give you the spatial distortion torpedo (SDT). Harnessing the space distortion associate with a FTL jump makes an impressive weapon that in my opinion is far more destructive than a photon torpedo. Why Moore and company did not dream up the SDT me early is beyond me. Forget lobbing nukes or high explosives use FTL jumps to make an attack. The Cylons with their jump drive rated raider could sucide dive right into the flight deck taking out a BSG with one jump. Granted the Galactica had rotting bones it was still something that pilots were warned about doing. Possible that a raptor could skip through a squadron of Raiders doing heavy damage.
Even the vaulted Enterprise falls victim to spatial distortion that even the Enterprise shield could not handle. Forget beaming a torpedo next to something do a proximity jumps near an object. If you get really fancy jump between the shield and the ship of the Enterprise and initiate a jump.
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The survivors were chasing after the dream of finding the lost tribe. Cavil knew about the 13 tribe and the destruction. Cavil must have been playing with the survivors as a supreme joke on his creators. The other Cylons did not seemed to know about the destruction of the last tribe. What was the other Cylon plan? Wipe out the last 13 tribe? The rebels seemed driven to complete prophecy and have communion with their creators.
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If the final 5 were so wise why didn't they program a moral code into the Cylons? Humans have one to a certain degree that even evolutionist would argue was a product of social evolution that aid the survival of the species. Moral/ethical code is not a pure product of nurturing. Free will can override that human programing. Especially when self-preservation kicks. Distortion by drugs and physical perception can cause problems. The Cylons expressed an ideal of love of god in explaining their action. Some coding took place. Cavil some how impressed the idea that knowledge of the final five was to be pursued. He also some how suppressed or prevented his sibling from protecting the final five while they had knowledge of the final five. How did he do that? He did not create the other models the final five created all 13 models. Why didn't the final five put in a kill switch into them or programing to protect them from harming them. It would seemed to be the wise thing considering the experience in the 13th colonial and what happen in the 12 colonies? It was not an idea lost on Cavil who used a kill switch on d'anna models and on the centurions. The child was certainly smarter than the parents.