Cylon monotheism versus human polytheism - is a red thread throughout the show. (Well, first season.) It's a fascinating choice. I mean, human polytheism is a leftover from the old show (though it only becomes explicit later on in the season that the Lords of Kobol are indeed the Graeco-Roman pantheon), but the Cylons as monotheists aren't. And their religion is very important to them; indeed it forms part of their motivations. The conviction that they're doing God's will and that he has appointed them to this task. As the new BSG is very consciously a post 9/11 show, you can read that monotheism as fundamentalism of either kind, of course - Christian or Muslim. And yes, they're also a lot like the Dick replicants. There is some backstory Moore has indicated, that they were originally used by the humans to fight each other before the colonies formed a union.
Blonde woman: is referred to as Six, due to her telling Baltar there are 12 Cylon models (meaning twelve human-looking Cylon models), and her model is No.6. The twelve Cylon models do of course correspond to the twelve colonies, the twelve Olympic deities, or the twelve tribes of Israel - however you want to see it.*g*
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Cylon monotheism versus human polytheism - is a red thread throughout the show. (Well, first season.) It's a fascinating choice. I mean, human polytheism is a leftover from the old show (though it only becomes explicit later on in the season that the Lords of Kobol are indeed the Graeco-Roman pantheon), but the Cylons as monotheists aren't. And their religion is very important to them; indeed it forms part of their motivations. The conviction that they're doing God's will and that he has appointed them to this task. As the new BSG is very consciously a post 9/11 show, you can read that monotheism as fundamentalism of either kind, of course - Christian or Muslim. And yes, they're also a lot like the Dick replicants. There is some backstory Moore has indicated, that they were originally used by the humans to fight each other before the colonies formed a union.
Blonde woman: is referred to as Six, due to her telling Baltar there are 12 Cylon models (meaning twelve human-looking Cylon models), and her model is No.6. The twelve Cylon models do of course correspond to the twelve colonies, the twelve Olympic deities, or the twelve tribes of Israel - however you want to see it.*g*