03-22-2009, 10:36 PM
Spoilers Alert, DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER MY ARMS ARE FLAILING ABOUT DANGER
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One of my favorite scenes of many, in the whole series. When the surveying crew is on the 'first earth'. Roslin quietly saying 'Earth...'. And the Geiger counter noise pretty much confirming what we're seeing on the screen.
I do feel that one of the unspoken major character in the whole series are the Centurions. IIRC, the Colonials created them and treated them as a slave-soldiers. When they rose up and say enough is enough, meatbags! They're obviously going to be portrayed as the bad guys by the hu-mainstream media. Uppity chrome-backs don't know their place. Where's my frakkin sammich, toaster?!
On a more serious note, really, I do like how they handled the Centurion story. It can be viewed allegorically, and literally with the continuing advancement in A.I. and robotics. Maybe in the future Asimov's law of robotics might actually be in the law books. And will be cited in the case of R.O.S.I.E vs Jetsons.
'Small' being the key word. At the time of this writing, we have let's see. UAVs armed with Hellfire missiles. Rumbas. Rumba tech used in a military capacity. A.I. continues to be developed in the area of human\machine interaction. Plans of robo-nannies to take care of the elderly. (Kinda like Caprica taking care of Baltar's father. But more utilitarian and not as femme-botty, for now at least.)
To me the key in breaking the cycle lies in one question. Can we respect sentience? The warning the final 5 was bringing to the other colonies was suppose to be that iirc, if they create artificial life they should treat it with respect.
Looking at how we treat each other in history, never mind A.I and walking toasters. The answer seems to be real shaky and tenuous at times. The Colonials IMO only bought some extra time by jettisoning the technology they brought with them. The big question still remains what will they (we) do with the technology? 150,000 years later (probably give or take a few centuries) , we're already nearing the start of another 'here we go again...'
Hehe. Touche'.
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Quote:I actually guessed pre or early humanity earth for the final destination back when the whole find earth stuff started, but the show took them to earth (the first time) too soon for that to work then.
One of my favorite scenes of many, in the whole series. When the surveying crew is on the 'first earth'. Roslin quietly saying 'Earth...'. And the Geiger counter noise pretty much confirming what we're seeing on the screen.
Quote: It's not like it's an uncommon theme in sci fi to talk about the robots taking over, you can find plenty of stories of that, some dating back well over half a century.
I do feel that one of the unspoken major character in the whole series are the Centurions. IIRC, the Colonials created them and treated them as a slave-soldiers. When they rose up and say enough is enough, meatbags! They're obviously going to be portrayed as the bad guys by the hu-mainstream media. Uppity chrome-backs don't know their place. Where's my frakkin sammich, toaster?!
On a more serious note, really, I do like how they handled the Centurion story. It can be viewed allegorically, and literally with the continuing advancement in A.I. and robotics. Maybe in the future Asimov's law of robotics might actually be in the law books. And will be cited in the case of R.O.S.I.E vs Jetsons.
Quote: As other mentioned, they do still end with a small note of hope that the cycle will be broken.
'Small' being the key word. At the time of this writing, we have let's see. UAVs armed with Hellfire missiles. Rumbas. Rumba tech used in a military capacity. A.I. continues to be developed in the area of human\machine interaction. Plans of robo-nannies to take care of the elderly. (Kinda like Caprica taking care of Baltar's father. But more utilitarian and not as femme-botty, for now at least.)
To me the key in breaking the cycle lies in one question. Can we respect sentience? The warning the final 5 was bringing to the other colonies was suppose to be that iirc, if they create artificial life they should treat it with respect.
Looking at how we treat each other in history, never mind A.I and walking toasters. The answer seems to be real shaky and tenuous at times. The Colonials IMO only bought some extra time by jettisoning the technology they brought with them. The big question still remains what will they (we) do with the technology? 150,000 years later (probably give or take a few centuries) , we're already nearing the start of another 'here we go again...'
Quote:I also enjoyed the little "riding off into the sunset" deal for Galactica itself. :)
Hehe. Touche'.