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Did you miss out on Battlestar Galactica? Do you dream of watching all of the show's drama, thrills, and frustrating scenes condensed into a four-minute piss take on 16-bit roleplaying games? More »
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Researchers at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology recently released footage of their HRP-4C humanoid (which is best known for its forays into pop stardom) enjoying an experimental test stroll last year. They walk shuffle among us! More »
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This video is just plain adorkable. It's like a Ke$ha song for scifi fans, complete with rapping from Big Bang Theory's Raj and Caprica's Zoe doing Princess Leia cosplay. Admittedly it's not quite as great as "Fuck Me Ray Bradbury," but then pretty much nothing is. [via Break Originals] More »
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io9 reader Brian Hogg is selling his marvelous BSG puppets. Now is your chance to recreate the dynamic space opera with puppets! You shoot it, we'll post it. The puppets are priced at $500.00 each on ebay. More »
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The first ever concept art from the new Battlestar Galactica prequel series Blood And Chrome have been released. From the looks of things, the space opera's next chapter will be full of aliens, blood, cylons, spaceships and WAR! Excellent! More »
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Are there any gaps in the life story of William Adama you're dying to fill? Because Syfy has got your back. In addition to Caprica, they've just greenlit another prequel, focusing on the future Admiral's time as a viper pilot. More »
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In this exclusive clip from from the Caprica season one DVD box set, show creator Ronald D. Moore explains why he gave the show's proto-Cylon human form half of the time, and why it looked so ominous. More »
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Vintage department store costumes followed a strangely predictable formula: soulless plastic mask + psychedelic torso art with the character's face again (for absolutely no reason). Here are some of your favorite scifi characters looking like narcissistic lunatics. First off, we have the Alien. It's like he was his own college mascot. More »
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This Easter Robbit will hide the chocolate at your Easter egg hunt, but he'll also exterminate your guests. But look! He's brought his own coterie of party-crashers. Meet his robo-friends, Mrs. Easter Robbit and the Cylon Unicorn. More »
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If you're wondering where the Caprica writers get their ideas for how the cylons work, the answer is that they've got a real roboticist consulting with them. Yesterday he explained why Zoe's cylon isn't as far-fetched as you might think. More »
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We loved the second week of the Battlestar Galactica prequel, but viewers didn't. Only about 1.4 million viewers watched it on Friday night, down from 1.6 million the first week. (For an episode that wasn't available on DVD beforehand.) [TVByTheNumbers] More »
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Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel launching Friday, doesn't feature an army of robots bent on wiping out the human race, because Cylons are just a few prototypes. So the biggest conflict is between groups of humans, says producer Jane Espenson. More »
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Want to know how Battlestar Galactica's Cylons developed from kitchen appliances to today's sexy/deadly models? Here's your exclusive first look at a new poster that follows Cylon evolution through both BSG series, now available from Quantum Mechanix. Click to enlarge. More »
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When you're out there fighting the Cylons, will you know where to aim to do maximum damage? Get some target practice with a real Centurion target, as seen on BSG. Here's an exclusive first look at your new must-have poster. More »
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Six is on crutches, Cavil is plotting, and Simon is married. In the cylon-centric Battlestar Galactica DVD The Plan, we get new spin on our favorite skinjobs. Watch never-before-seen clips and commentary from writer Jane Espenson and the cast. More »
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The Edward James Olmos directed film, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, is gearing up for a release and we've got all the details. The 112-minute feature has all new Cylon-on-human action, plus never-before-seen BSG behind the scenes features. More »
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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. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5291573&view=rss&microfeed=true The cast of Battlestar Galactica including Michael Hogan (Saul Tigh) and Mary McDonnell (President Roslin) are joining up with the leaders of today's robotics industry including Hod Lipson (evolutionary robotic scientist) and Kevin Warwick (professor of Cybernetics) to talk Cylon this weekend. Together they'll lead a discussion on artificial intelligence and its scientific and philosophical implications. There will also be sneak previews from the BSG special, The Plan. Join them at the 92nd Street Y, New York, NY on June 12th at 8 PM — the future of the human race may depend on it. More »
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We already know that Battlestar Galactica: The Plan will retell the story of the cylon attacks on humanity from a distinctly nonhuman viewpoint, but according to director Edward James Olmos, it's monumental despite being what you'd expect. More »
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It's one thing to talk about Killer Robots, but which ones have actually managed to really rack up the senseless slaughter? Here are our choices for the ten deadliest robots for you to avoid. More »
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What could be scarier than a shiny Centurion, or a million Boomers doing naked yoga? This new Cylon model, which will lead yet another revolution against the next hybrid human-Cylon overlords. More »
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If you really want to scare off those jerks who are coming to egg your house, you need a pumpkin with a little more menace than those usual jack o'lanterns. Luckily, you've got just enough time to carve your very own pumpkin replica of the killer robots from Battlestar Galactica, the Cylons, if you start now. EvilMadScientist has painstaking instructions on creating your own dark robo-pumpkin, complete with the trademark back-and-forth glowing eye, thanks to a set of LEDs. But we've also seen some other great villainous pumpkins in the past few days, including a Predator and the Death Star. This Predator pumpkin, from Villafane Studios, is a total work of art, and really intense. You wouldn't want to get your hand too close to this one. And then there's the Death Star pumpkin, which looks pretty doable for the less artistic carvers out there, as long as you can measure and cut in a straight line. Fantasy Pumpkins has a super-detailed set of instructions, so your pumpkin can end up looking like this: [Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, thanks Marilyn] More »
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Sometimes life comes down to a single important question: are you a Cylon or aren't you? Fantasy Flight Games will let you play out that question, and all the backstabbing, paranoiac hijinks sure to follow, with Battlestar Galactica: the Board Game, due for release later this fall. More »
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What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica this week than by disillusioning fans? We'll do that by letting you know just how unoriginal the show's robotic bad guys really were. It's not enough that they looked like Darth Vader's cheaper, silver cousins - now we find out that they were originally intended to have been very similar to Doctor Who's favorite alien cyborgs, as well. More »
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We just got an email from Tom DeSanto, executive producer of the abortive Bryan Singer Battlestar Galactica series, saying the Cylon picture we featured yesterday wasn't actually from his series. (Despite being labeled by its creator as concept art for the 2001 relaunch.) DeSanto was kind enough to send us some actual Cylon concept art from his version of BSG, and it looks several orders of magnitude cooler. We're replacing the image in yesterday's post with the image above, but click through to see more of his cool Cylon concept art. More »
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Sci Fi may be wrapping up one end of the Battlestar Galactica timeline, but they're not the only ones eagerly playing with the other. While Sci Fi readies its Caprica prequel show, Dynamite Entertainment's comics have been taking a look back at what we didn't see when the Twelve Colonies were destroyed ... and even before then. More »
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Want to see the meticulous planning that went into the Cylon massacre on Caprica at the start of the new Battlestar Galactica? British broadcaster Sky One (which co-produced the new BSG) has a gallery of production drawings online, including images of the vipers, the raptors, the Battlestar itself... and the new cylons, including how their hands work. Click through to see our favorites. More »
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Wondering whether Battlestar Galactica's Final Four Cylons are sleeper agents awaiting instructions to destroy humanity once and for all, or just confused and frakked up as they seem? Showrunner and producer Ron D. Moore has no problems telling you the answer to that question, as well as dropping a little spoiler or two, in the finally-appearing podcast commentaries to this season's episodes. More »
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Starbuck continues to make some weird command decisions, in this clip from tonight's Battlestar Galactica, "The Road Less Traveled," which just went up on Hulu. It's like Apollo slipped her some cubits to make his stint as commander of the Pegasus look great by comparison. But at least she's not about to elect a Cylon president, like we are. Oh, and the first 10 minutes of tonight's episode are streaming, every hour on the hour, at SciFi.com, from 9 to 4 EST. [Galactica Sitrep] More »
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