Plead the First

Backwards City links to an interview with Katee Sackhoff, the actress who plays Starbuck on SciFi’s Battlestar Galactica. At the end of the Backwards City post, there’s this quote from Gravity Lens:

I need someone to explain to me how a show about humanity, slaughtered and driven from the twelve worlds they occupy by technology that they created, now pursued and manipulated by these same enemies, having to determine on-the-fly what constitutes “human,” and preserve the remnants of the race doesn’t qualify as science fiction.

That’s an accurate assesment. In the show, the Cylons were created by humans as servants, but the Cylons turn against their creators. How tragic is that – driven from your home, pursued and slaughtered by technology that you created. The work of your own hands, carefully crafted, turned into a cunning killer. But then I realized something.

The humans totally had it coming to them. I mean really. You go and create something that looks like this:

and you don’t expect it to turn out evil? Of course it wants to kill you – just look at it! It has a glowing red eye for Kobol’s sake! You want to build a robot that will be nice to you and not commit genocide the first chance it gets, you build a robot that looks like this:

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