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What exactly was the Cylon's plan?

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Watching old episodes of Battlestar Galactica right now. The opening credits say the the Cylons "have a plan." What exactly was their plan? Universe domination? Killing all the humans? (That was pretty much taken care of in the mini-series. Well except for 50,000 people). I don't think they ever really told us what their "plan" was.

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The truth is most tv series are written as they go, episode by episode, with no real conception of an overall series-covering plot. This is especially true for the first season and the pilot, which is a point where the creators don't even know if the show will get a season or the number of episodes. The plan is filler material to move the plot. It's whatever you want it to be. Probably kill all humans.

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Razzy's correct in that Moore and Eick didn't even know what the endgame would be. Like Lost and lots of other dramas with one, continuing, epic story-arc, they just made it up as they went along.

I guess it could be said that the plan, at least among the final five (along with Caprica 6 and Gaius, who comes off like some sort of godhead) would be to end a chapter and begin the next. "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again."

That's how it came off to me, anyway.

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Their first plan was to blow up the Colonies and set them all up as their own, as humanities Children - now with One God.

Their second plan was to work at getting Cylons and Humans to procreate when they realized that Cylon only creation was not really "Gods Plan" - this is what the Sixes and the Fours, at least, really wanted. To do that they needed to "live together" with the remnants of the Colonies.

When that proved problematic, the "Final Five" thing started to take over the dynamic for good and ill - these characters provided strong drama and continuity for the show but got a little muddled at times - but the whole Tori/Callie thing brought it into such clear and exciting focus at just the right time!

I miss this show, as time goes by I realize it will probably be the single best science fiction show ever made. It was so uncompromising, well written, and well executed, and SciFi let them have at it for the most part.

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