Battlestar Galactica (2. TV series)Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fictiontelevision series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore and executive produced by Moore and David Eick as a re- imagining of the 1. Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A.

The series first aired as a three- hour miniseries (comprising four broadcast hours) in December 2. Sci- Fi Channel, and ran for four seasons thereafter, ending its run on March 2. The series features Edward James Olmos and Mary Mc. Donnell, and garnered a wide range of critical acclaim, which included a Peabody Award, the Television Critics Association's Program of the Year Award, a placement inside Time's 1. Best TV Shows of All- TIME.

Considered by many to be one of the best television series ever made, Battlestar Galactica picks up just as Cylons - intelligent robots designed by humankind - commit. The second season of the reimagined science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States on July 25, 2005, and. The first episode of Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome has drawn over 2.4 million views since the webseries debuted at the beginning of November. Watch Emissary online. Stream Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1, episode 1 instantly.

In the past, the Colonies had been at war with a cybernetic race of their own creation, known as the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human scientist named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden sneak attack on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. Out of a population numbering in the billions, only approximately 5. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the eponymous Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of Colonial Fleet officer Commander William .

Another spin- off, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, was released in November 2. February 1. 0, 2. Syfy as a televised movie. The survivors are led by President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama in a ragtag fleet of ships with the Battlestar Galactica, an old, but powerful warship, as its command ship.

Pursued by Cylons intent on wiping out the remnants of the human race, the survivors travel across the galaxy looking for the fabled and long- lost . Watch Anaconda 3: Offspring Online. Unlike most space opera series, Battlestar Galactica has no humanoid aliens (the antagonists are man- made Cylon robots), the primary armaments used by both military forces utilize bullets, rail guns, and missiles instead of lasers, and the series intentionally avoids technobabble. Stories also portray the concept of perpetuated cycles of hate and violence driving the human- Cylon conflict, and religion, with the implication of a . Despite the animosity on both sides, the humans and a faction of the Cylons eventually form an uneasy alliance, in the wake of the Cylon Civil War. The Cylon leader, humanoid Cylon .

Cavil deceives the other models by obsessively hiding the identities and origins of the remaining five humanoid Cylon models, the . Other plotlines involve the mysterious destiny of Kara . The first group of survivors settle in ancient Africa. Ironically, these humanoid Cylons created their own Centurion robotic slaves, who waged a nuclear attack against their masters, devastating the planet and making it uninhabitable. The new Earth is found to be inhabited by early humans, who are genetically compatible with the humans from the Galactica and the rest of the fleet, but who possess only the most rudimentary civilization. The surviving humans and humanoid Cylons settle on the new planet; they discard all technology, destroying the fleet by flying it into the Sun, in order to postpone the creation of robotic servants until their society has progressed to higher ethics.

The surviving Cylon Centurions are given possession of the remaining Cylon Basestar, and proceed to jump away from Earth. In the final scenes, modern- day Earth humans are shown to be descendants of the colonists, their humanoid Cylon allies, and the early humans. At the end of the series finale, an angelic Baltar and Cylon Number Six are walking down a sidewalk in modern- day New York City. They are unseen and unheard by the people around them. As the two walk, they notice technologically advanced robots, computers, and other cybernetic devices, and they talk about the technological advancements the humans have made since the Colonists and Humanoid Cylons first arrived to this Earth, over 1.

Cylon Number Six and Baltar have an exchange over one of the ongoing themes from the series, . But the question remains, does all of this have to happen again? Gaius Baltar, a brilliant scientist, and later President. Tricia Helfer as Number Six, a humanoid Cylon.

Grace Park as. (LTJG) Sharon . Sherman Cottle, Chief Medical Officer of BS Galactica. Nicki Clyne as (SPC) Cally Henderson, member of the landing bay deck crew of BS Galactica, later married to . That search is motivated by ancient religious texts' references to a 1. Earth. Various religious relics and ruins on the Twelve Colonies and elsewhere in the galaxy provide clues to Earth's location.

Throughout the series, humans and Cylons are assisted in times of need by mysterious entities, possibly from a higher plane of existence. Human polytheism. This appears to be the state religion of the colonies; government oaths refer to the gods, and back on the Twelve Colonies, public museums housed artifacts of the gods. Some people are devout believers, others are atheists, and most fall somewhere in the middle; all three viewpoints are accepted more or less equally. The Kobol gods have the same names and characteristics as the Greek Olympian gods and the show makes references to Zeus (as well as Jupiter), Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Ares (as well as Mars), and Apollo.

As evidenced by prayers offered by the human characters, the Kobol gods are morally refined and are believed to watch over and intervene benevolently in the lives of the just. This is similar to the concept of the gods during the Greek classical and Hellenistic periods, not the amoral (and very human) gods of the Greek archaic period. In another parallel to Western polytheism, the names of the Twelve Colonies and their planets are similar to the names of the constellations in the Greco- Romanzodiac. The finale implies that the Greek and Roman pantheons, as well as several ancient belief systems including the zodiac, were imported to Earth by the colonial survivors. The principal means of transmitting divine knowledge are the Sacred Scrolls. The Scrolls chronicle the early period of human existence, when people and the gods purportedly lived together on the planet Kobol, whose location at the beginning of the series is unknown and is regarded as mythical by secular humans. The Scrolls tell that at some point in time, twelve human tribes left Kobol and founded the Twelve Colonies, while a thirteenth headed towards Earth.

This is also referred to in the opening words of the Scrolls: . One important feature mentioned is the Book of Pythia, which chronicles an ancient prophetess (similar to the Oracle of Delphi named Pythia) who journeyed with the Thirteenth Tribe on their voyage to Earth. Pythia also described the exodus of the other Twelve Tribes, and the things that happened to them. She describes a dying leader who would guide the tribes to salvation. President Roslin sees herself as playing the part of the leader in the texts, as she has terminal breast cancer.

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Another important quotation from the scrolls is the recurring phrase . The opening credits are accompanied by a new- age- inflected version of the Gayatri Mantra, a hymn dedicated to the solar deity Savitr. It differs greatly from the humans' religion; it is monotheistic and shares many beliefs of Abrahamic monotheistic religions (God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, that he will one day deliver divine retribution and that he intervenes in the world). Much like Evangelical Christianity, the Cylon religion encourages a personal relationship with God. Despite being man- made, Cylons believe that they were created by God.

Some humans have come to follow the Cylon religion, mostly by way of Gaius Baltar, who himself grew to believe in the Cylon religion through the efforts of Caprica Six. References to modern society. Johnson after the Kennedy assassination.

Many people have drawn parallels between the Cylons and Al Qaeda.

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