The "aliens " on star trek were just humans with bumps on their heads. That's what was boring. Remeber the "Horta" on the old Star Trek? Or the creature that made Cap'n Kirk fight with Abe Lincoln? Or the brains that wagered Quatloos? THAT WAS GREAT Stuff. They had to be smoking something to come up with that.
The old BSG, the old cylons, they were too cool for waords. I actually played with those dolls as a kid. The flashing eye thing. cool.B But the new- "cylons are human like now" thing is just a way to make the show cheaper, and you can throw in the cylon hookers. Big whoop. Make an interesting alien, and the world will beat a path to your door.
People are just out of ideas these days.
Bingo, again!
Probably partially for money, but it also adds to the "the enemy is among us" plotline. Plus there are still metal Cylons, mainly seen in the Caprica and Kobol episodes and the episode where the Galactica was boarded. The human Cylons are the infiltrators and spys, while the metal ones are the combat troops.
Well once you're into your 3rd dozen alien races it gets hard to come up with new ideas.
No it's not just a way to make the show cheaper, it's a way to get new plots. If anything the old Cylons were a way to make the show cheaper because you could use the same actors over and over again. And if Fox hadn't threatened to sue them if their guns had visible beams thus forcing them to put squibs on the Cylon armor which damaged the armor every time they killed a Cylon it would have been cheaper. Part of the primary plot of the new BSG is the Cylons trying to replace the humans, can't replace humans if you don't look human.
Aliens are overrated. 90% of the time in sci-fi they're just a cop out to making characters that don't act right.
"People are just out of ideas these days."
Except for movies about gay cowboys, you're probably right.