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I always wondered what happened to any of the humans who didn't make it to a ship in time to get off New Caprica. Baltar never used the nuke so in theory you could have people in the hundreds who were left stranded. My guess is that they would simple keep on living at the settlement and things might even be easier for them with fewer supplies to be shared with a bigger number of people. You can then fish and grow veggies and fruit to live on. I am also guessing they even had guns to use for hunting any animals around for more food.

Well, no one was rushing the Cylons off the planet. It's entirely possible they imprisoned or executed any stragglers at their leisure.
 
This is a valid point. Then again, Ridley Scott also happens to be arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of our time - he makes Prometheus and all of a sudden everyone treats him like he's Uwe Boll. The moviegoing audience is a fickle lot...
OK, well 1) "everyone treats him like he's Uwe Boll" is more than a little hyperbolic, and 2) he also made Alien: Covenant, so....yeah.

For the record, I liked Prometheus...mostly...kinda...
Not that any of this has any baring on Cameron's track record.
 
Well, no one was rushing the Cylons off the planet. It's entirely possible they imprisoned or executed any stragglers at their leisure.

We never did get an answers to what happened to an survivors on the colonies though I expect there probably weren't many and those that were probably succumbed to radiation sickness fairly quickly.

Though in the original there's a scene where the it's made clear that any survivors are to be killed (though that might have been the theatrical release, not the tv version).
 
We never did get an answers to what happened to an survivors on the colonies though I expect there probably weren't many and those that were probably succumbed to radiation sickness fairly quickly.

Though in the original there's a scene where the it's made clear that any survivors are to be killed (though that might have been the theatrical release, not the tv version).

We saw in "The Farm" that some number of survivors were used for medical experiments, and in "The Plan" there was a scene of Centurion death-squads machine-gunning people fleeing the cities in their cars.
 
There seemed to be a sense among the production company that they were making really deep insights about greed. “Unobtainium” and the on the nose analogy of searching for sinethujht that can’t be obtained.

It came off as thinly veiled Native American exoticism.
They always talk about movies like that during the promotional phase, so I never really take it seriously.
We never did get an answers to what happened to an survivors on the colonies though I expect there probably weren't many and those that were probably succumbed to radiation sickness fairly quickly.
If you're talking about the RDM version there was that whole storyline with Kara and Helo back on Caprica, where they joined up with that group including Anders.
 
They always talk about movies like that during the promotional phase, so I never really take it seriously.

If you're talking about the RDM version there was that whole storyline with Kara and Helo back on Caprica, where they joined up with that group including Anders.

but that was a small resistance cell made up of people who were in the hills at the time, but what about others (the BSG wiki has the colonies with a population of roughly 25 billion of which 55,000 made out on the RTF)?

https://galactica.fandom.com/wiki/United_Colonies_of_Kobol
 
This is a valid point. Then again, Ridley Scott also happens to be arguably one of the greatest filmmakers of our time - he makes Prometheus and all of a sudden everyone treats him like he's Uwe Boll. The moviegoing audience is a fickle lot...

It is entirely possible these films could be one long extended disaster. Reverend has a point. Almost every time Cameron has stepped up to the plate since T2 there is a massive amount of pre-movie criticism. This movie is too expensive. This movie is going to be a flop. This will never work. And every...single...time..Cameron has proven the skeptics wrong.
 
We saw in "The Farm" that some number of survivors were used for medical experiments, and in "The Plan" there was a scene of Centurion death-squads machine-gunning people fleeing the cities in their cars.
I got the impression that any survivor died due to the Cylons or radiation sickness. When Helo was on Caprica he was having to take medication to prevent it and he was having to deal with Centurions patrolling for any survivor. He was barely able to escape them a few times and that was likely due to the Cylons wanting him and Athena to produce a child.
 
I figured I'd post this here given it's a BSG thread. I made a Cylon puppet.
fgrzBFm.jpg

It has an eye that I can move around to let it look and focus on anything. I'm currently designing a few other Cylons, like an original series one and one of the domestic models from the Caprica epilogue.
 
I figured I'd post this here given it's a BSG thread. I made a Cylon puppet.
fgrzBFm.jpg

It has an eye that I can move around to let it look and focus on anything. I'm currently designing a few other Cylons, like an original series one and one of the domestic models from the Caprica epilogue.

I've never seen Jimmy Durante done better :p
 
OK, well 1) "everyone treats him like he's Uwe Boll" is more than a little hyperbolic, and 2) he also made Alien: Covenant, so....yeah..
Didn't he also "recently" do Exodus: Gods & Kings and The Counsellor too? Tbf I haven't seen either, but weren't both panned too
 
I figured I'd post this here given it's a BSG thread. I made a Cylon puppet.
fgrzBFm.jpg

It has an eye that I can move around to let it look and focus on anything. I'm currently designing a few other Cylons, like an original series one and one of the domestic models from the Caprica epilogue.
Awesome. For what it's worth I think you can get a little LED kit for the Cylon/KITT eye fairly cheaply if you want to complete the look. ;)
Didn't he also "recently" do Exodus: Gods & Kings and The Counsellor too? Tbf I haven't seen either, but weren't both panned too
Haven't seen them either and no clue what the reception was. Though given that until just now I forgot either existed, that's probably not a positive sign.
 
Awesome. For what it's worth I think you can get a little LED kit for the Cylon/KITT eye fairly cheaply if you want to complete the look. ;)
I had thought about that, but ended up going with a red LED light that I can move with my hand. Since it doesn’t have a mouth I wanted someway to show some expression. It can look around, focus on a person or object like it’s looking at it and even roll it’s eye. I can also move the brow some.

When I make the old series Cylon I’m considering the led bar and focus on making the face more expressive. I have an idea that it’s personality will be the robot Bela Lugosi from the movie Ed Wood. It’s a washed up robotic actor with an intense hatred of Anthony Daniels for stealing the role of C-3PO.
 
Micheal Lesslie, the showrunner for AMC's Little Drummer Girl adaptation, and writer of the Assassin's Creed movie, will be the creator, writer and executive producer for the new Batllestar Galactica, with Sam Esmail as one of the other EPS. This is kind of a surprise, the original announcement made it sound like Esmail was going to to be the creator/showrunner.
It also says that e the show will "completely reimagine the world of BSG", which is another seeming contradiction since earlier news had said it would be connected to Ronald D. Moore and David Eick's series.
 
Micheal Lesslie, the showrunner for AMC's Little Drummer Girl adaptation, and writer of the Assassin's Creed movie, will be the creator, writer and executive producer for the new Batllestar Galactica, with Sam Esmail as one of the other EPS. This is kind of a surprise, the original announcement made it sound like Esmail was going to to be the creator/showrunner.
It also says that e the show will "completely reimagine the world of BSG", which is another seeming contradiction since earlier news had said it would be connected to Ronald D. Moore and David Eick's series.

A violent interpretation of the few facts provided is that Sam wanted to a continuation, and he was REPLACED by an EP who was more interested in a re-imagining.

The above speculation is %15 credible.
 
How much of what we heard before was rumor and how much was official?
 
The way that IGN article phrases things makes me think that Esmail had something else come up that has prevented him from continuing active creative development of the project, but will still allow him to help produce it.
 
Eh... Right now I don’t see anything going in active development unless it’s something animated. As much as we’ve been jerked around with this particular franchise over the years, I’d be happy with damn near anything at this point.
 
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