Cylon/Human/Plaything

[kingfish]

One of the characters in the new show Sharon "Boomer" Varelli may be a Cylon plant. In the end she may have to make a choice between he Cylon programmming or chosing to help the colonials. I thought long and hard on the subject and came to a number of conclusions. This is familiar ground and has been visited before. Remember Blade Runner? The fans of the movie recently were told that Deckard was a replicant. Heck even harrison Ford wasn't aware. Sharon having to make a choice is also old hat. remember Voyager's Seven of Nine? Janeway made the choice to make Seven a human again. Next we head to the sexy Cylon androids. Oops another flashback. Remember Westworld with the late Yul Brynner? It is about an amusement park with androids. They even have female androids to help one "relax." The film was rated R for Nudity and Violence.

[Agelastus]

Every science fiction show has done it, or something similar. It amount to a "classic" moral dilemma. The question is how well executed and how believable the resolution, not whether it is an original idea.

In the Ron Moore version this might actually work better than most I've seen, even if it does end up as the tired "humanity triumphs over all original loyalties."

I never did think Seven of Nine's evolution was particularly well done.

[Agelastus]

Incidentally, the best example I've seen recently was in the Japanese anime "Irresponsible Captain Tylor".

I wonder if that's where the idea was lifted from!:uhdrop: