this show handles the whole "God and Robots" theme SO much better than BSG ever did.
You know even at the height of my BSG love I think I would have agreed with you, because BSG never did God and Robots all that well. BSG did religion well, and BSG fucked with the notion of what constituted a robot well. But the thing I love about Cylons, and divorcing myself from BSGFail what I still love about the concept of Cylons isn't what they say about the current state of robotics and AI. It's the philosophical questions they ask. It's the fact that they ceased being robots and became, rather, artificially constructed people. (Which I find amazingly fascinating for a whole host of different reasons).
But if you're talking about robots - about what constitutes sentience and thought rather than how we would react if we could no longer exclusively claim it - then TSCC is the show you go to.
Similarly, BSG portrayed - at its best - religion as a sociopolitical force and/or a genuinely divine power, but because Cylons weren't really robots anymore, it was really a show that dealt with religion AND dealt with robots (or rather, constructed people), rather than dealing with how religion handles robots and vice versa.
But then, of course, 4.5 showed up and trashed everything. So you know, there's also that. :(
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You know even at the height of my BSG love I think I would have agreed with you, because BSG never did God and Robots all that well. BSG did religion well, and BSG fucked with the notion of what constituted a robot well. But the thing I love about Cylons, and divorcing myself from BSGFail what I still love about the concept of Cylons isn't what they say about the current state of robotics and AI. It's the philosophical questions they ask. It's the fact that they ceased being robots and became, rather, artificially constructed people. (Which I find amazingly fascinating for a whole host of different reasons).
But if you're talking about robots - about what constitutes sentience and thought rather than how we would react if we could no longer exclusively claim it - then TSCC is the show you go to.
Similarly, BSG portrayed - at its best - religion as a sociopolitical force and/or a genuinely divine power, but because Cylons weren't really robots anymore, it was really a show that dealt with religion AND dealt with robots (or rather, constructed people), rather than dealing with how religion handles robots and vice versa.
But then, of course, 4.5 showed up and trashed everything. So you know, there's also that. :(
Anyway, tangent, mostly. Oh show!!!
DITTO. ;)