[pcx99]

And I have to say I like the shinier old Cylons. These guys just don't do it. What are they trying to do with this. Reminds me of Starship Troopers with something else. Just can't figure out what that something else is

The old cylons were in a black and white world -- the US vs the evil empire. You could spot them a mile away. The new cylons the cylons walk among us. They use our technology against us, they are the products of our unrestrained technology. The old cylons wore black hats, the new cylons are right out of our modern nightmares :(

[billbears]

I guess I could see that. Batman. That's the feeling I get about the other show. Don't know why but it reminds me of the first few Batman movies, that darkness the director instilled with lighting on top of the darkness of the night?

[RandallFlagg]

You just nailed the similarities between this and the war on terror. "Enemy among us."

Right on the head!

[Arkinsaw]

The old cylons were in a black and white world -- the US vs the evil empire. You could spot them a mile away. The new cylons the cylons walk among us. They use our technology against us, they are the products of our unrestrained technology. The old cylons wore black hats, the new cylons are right out of our modern nightmares :(

Pretty much. We will see if the show remains true to it. It was interesting that the government broadcast their willingness to offer total and unconditional surrender and the Cylons didn't even reply. Must have been democrats.

[proust]

The old cylons were in a black and white world -- the US vs the evil empire. You could spot them a mile away.

Actually, the original Battlestar was a retelling of Mormonism:

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Battlestar Galactica is the story of the Mormons retold with the visual vocabulary of Star Wars, plus a few ideas from TV westerns and tabloid archeology. The moral of the pilot movie and most episodes is "Don't trust outsiders; Kill them before they get the chance to kill you."

The overwhelming financial success of Star Wars gave creator/producer Glen Larson the hard numbers he needed to finally convince television networks that science fiction could be profitable.

Larson is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), founded by Joseph Smith (1805-1844). In 1823, while Smith was still a teenager, the angel Moroni appeared and revealed the location of several gold Nephi Plates. The plates had been buried by Moroni in 421 CE, when he was still a mortal. They were written mostly by Moroni and his father, the prophet Mormon, in the Nephi language. Smith translated the plates into English by divine guidance. He then returned the plates to Moroni, who brought them back to Heaven. Smith's translation is today called The Book of Mormon; Another Testament of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon recounts the early history of the world from 600 BCE to 420 CE. The Mormons believe in four canonical scriptures: The Bible, The Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price; these are the sources for the basic plot and all the religious themes in Battlestar Galactica:

Galactica	Mormon Scriptures
Battlestar Galactica	Noah's Ark (Larson recycled ideas for Galactica from an earlier pitch, "Adam's Ark")
The Twelve Colonies (and the lost thirteenth colony) of Colonists	The Twelve Tribes (and the lost thirteenth tribe) of Jews
The Cylons, who pursue the fleeing Colonists	The Egyptians, who pursue the fleeing Jews
Colonies are ruled by the "Council of Twelve"	Mormons are ruled by the "Council of Twelve"
Home planet of mankind is called "Kobol"	Home planet of mankind is called "Kolob"
Count Iblis	Satan ("Iblis" is the Islamic name for Satan)
Seraphs (the beings who pilot the mysterious ships of light)	Seraphim (the highest rank of angels)
Adama	Adam (the first man according to the Old Testament, whom Mormons arguably believe is God)
Apollo opens a path in the Cylon mine field so the Colonists can escape the Cylons	Moses parts the Red Sea so the Jews can escape the Egyptians
Adama wears a silver medallion of office around his neck	Joseph Smith wore a silver medallion of office around his neck (a Hebrew puzzlebox called the "Jupiter Talisman")

http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/general.html