New Trailer For BSG's "The Plan" Explains Exactly What That Plan Was [Battlestar Galactica] (5)
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Remember the Cylons' much-vaunted plan on Battlestar Galactica? Turns out it was "sheer elegance in its simplicity," as the Middleman would say. A new trailer for the last-chance-to-retcon-everything TV movie "The Plan" finally spells out just what that plan was. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan airs this Fall on Syfy. [L.A. Times]
io9 - Ancient Cylon Warrior Almost Looked Like Darth Vader - Battlestar (6)
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Battlestar Galactica's effects genius Gary Hutzel and model-maker Pierre Drolet had to create some ancient Cylon remains for the Galactica crew to dig up. So they reached into Japanese Samurai designs... and his first efforts looked quite like Darth Vader. Vader's fellow Sith Lord, Darth Mojo, has been posting about the process of developing these ancient Cylons at his blog It's fascinating that the designers' first stabs at a 2000-year-old Cylon centurion wound up looking ...
"Robot Uprising" Expert Gives You Invaluable Cylon Survival Skills [Battlestar Galactica] (7)
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The Battlestar Galactica cast and top roboticists may be gathering on Friday to explain how to cope with the show's killer robots, but there's no need to wait. How To Survive A Robot Uprising author Daniel Wilson has answers now. Wilson did a guest-blogging spot over at BSG special effects supremo Darth Mojo's blog, and he explained exactly how to cope with a Cylon uprising, in particular: In the world of Battlestar Galactica, human beings ...
