i admit, the last one was rubbish.. but..
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Accel,
Posted on: 2006-02-14 03:58 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
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True, but I always feel the Minds have more sense than to want more than they can have.
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True. ... Well, maybe with the exception of the ROUs. They always struck me as a little ... narrow-minded. Very good at their speciality, of course -- but maybe not the best lateral thinkers.
(For a similar style of sci-fi, I recommend Neal Asher, although Banks is the heavy hitter of the two.)
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And remember, at the time the war kicked off humans weren't very worried about the cyclons anymore.
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The humans weren't, but Adama was, same with more or less everyone on the Galacttica. If that was the kind of equipment they still had aboard ship, that's what they're stuck with. How old is the Galacttica supposed to be at the time the show starts?
I also think what you're forgetting is that a lot of the people on that ship are techno-phobes in one way or another. It seemed to me like the general populace would think nothing of a PDA or similar device. However, aboard Galacttica it's different, it's stuck in a time warp to a time when technology, especially computerised technology, is dangerous.
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that during the scene they WEREN'T on the the Galactica
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There's a very solid reason why the systems in the new BG are... archaic, it means the Cylons can't remotely take control of them and turn them against the humans. it's actually fully explained in the (very good) pilot episode.
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I disagree. The only episode where the BGs computers came under threat was when they networked them for faster FTL computations. In fact the rely quite heavily on computers throughout the show. And remember, at the time the war kicked off humans weren't very worried about the cyclons anymore.
I doubt seriously if an Ipod would represent any serious threat and consider that during the scene they WEREN'T on the the Galactica. It didn't fit although I understand the reasons for putting it there. They were just trying too hard imho.
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