The last 50, members of humanity, led by the Galactica , limped into the cosmos, looking for a fabled planet known as Earth — inhabited, so humanity's polytheistic scriptures say, by the lost 13th tribe of humans.
The Cylons relentlessly pursue the human fleet, where several of the humanoid Cylon models were still hidden. Miraculously, all of the Final Five also managed to survive the Cylon attack, and they too ended up in the human fleet.
They got horizontal, and had a baby, Hera: The first human-Cylon hybrid. Outed as a Cylon, Athena ultimately won Adama's trust and joined the human fleet as a pilot. At a particularly grim time for humanity, Saul killed Ellen for being a Cylon sympathizer. Ironic, no? When she was resurrected, she remembered everything, and Cavil kept her captive on a Cylon Basestar.
Meanwhile, Saul, Galen, Anders, and Tory eventually realized they were Cylons — thanks to an eerie version of ''All Along the Watchtower'' ringing through their heads — but they all kept it a secret. When the human fleet finally found Earth, instead of an Eden, it was a wasteland unfit for any life, irradiated some 2, years previous in a massive nuclear holocaust. It was familiar territory, however, for the Final Five: Turns out, they are Earth's only survivors.
Yup, the 13th tribe of humanity were, in fact, all frakking toasters. With ''Battlestar Galactica: The Plan'' hitting DVD today, we've assembled this dossier detailing the Cylons' war on humanity to get everyone up to speed. By Adam B. Save FB Tweet More. Pinterest Email Send Text Message. Battlestar Galactica Cylons were machines created by weapons technologist Dr.
The artificially intelligent automatons eventually came to serve humans, like. Why send us to live among the humans? So I gave you all grandstand seats to a holocaust. You had a dozen chances. Now, to be fair, in one of the Battlestar Galactica movies, The Plan , which covers the first half of the series from the cylon point of view, both Cavil units that appear in that story because Cavil is one model but more than one unit articulate their desire for the five creators to learn the true nature of humanity even before the nuclear attack, but it seems unlikely they really believe that.
I never seriously considered the answer would be virtually none. To begin with, on top of all the confessions which are always already as pychological as they are religious , on top of the physical torture, Cavil engages in the psychological torture of his fellow cylons all of them, really.
But beyond that, he reveals himself to be a machine with its own peculiar psychology. Ellen, of course, is correct. Cavil is a sadist, but there is also a certain kind of psychological denial operating in the Cavil model, which is somewhat ironic given Cavil is one of the few characters in the show to directly reference human psychological concepts and categories while turning religious counselling into a travesty of psychoanalytic therapy.
One would think, especially as a machine who appears to understand psychology, that he might recognize denial in his own thought processes. Humans have a word for that, Ellen. The division in the Cavil model is made most apparent in the division between the units. However, the Cavil unit from Galactica dismisses that analysis as idiotic, partly through a facial expression of disgust and partly by promising to box his brother unit take him off line , not out of fear of the truth but out of pure contempt for stupidity, as soon as they both download back to the cylon resurrection ship.
It suggests Oedipal desire. While there is plenty of cylon incest to go around in Battlestar Galactica, including multiple examples of Cavil sleeping with both his mother and his sisters, it would be believe it or not a mistake to read the Oedipus Complex into this behavior. There is also the suggestion that Cavil killed one of his siblings because he was jealous that sibling received to much attention from Ellen.
I recognize all of this and also recognize that some of the arguments I will make below dismissing Oedipal desire here can be counteracted through the psychoanalytic defence mechanisms, displacement in particular.
Nevertheless, I maintain that it is simply too easy to read the Oedipus complex into this aspect of Battlestar Galactica. Not only is it too easy, it is too conscious. There is a psychoanalytic logic at play here, but not an Oedipal one. Cavil does not sleep with Ellen, Boomer Grace Park and one of the Six models because of any unconscious desire to be loved by his creators.
He sleeps with them, openly and consciously, because it is the depraved thing to do—because it manifestly mocks human sexuality. If you are versed in psychoanalysis, especially if you are a Lacanian, please give me some slack here.
Forgive me and bear with me. While Cavil knows that he hates his body and confesses that he hates his body, he does not recognize that it is that hatred, i. Of course Cavil claims to hate the humans because they enslaved the centurions—he needs to rationalize his hate through justice—but really Cavil hates the humans because he hates that he is the same as them, that they represent for him, and constantly remind him of his own inferiority.
But really, what about all that cylon incest? Do not Freudian family dynamics permeate the cylon consciousness, especially know that you admit castration? And we cannot forget that he does not hate his body out of shame or disgust or sexual guilt or fear of castration; he hates it because it is weak, because it is soft frak me! But is he castrated, or is he just impotent?
Because that too is a different psychology. Regardless, however, the more important point is that remarkably little of this is unconscious. Cavil hates his body clearly and manifestly even as he deceives himself into believing his hatred of the humans is about slavery and teaching valuable life lessons to his parents.
Denial is always unconscious to some degree, but how often are we surprised to see denial operating so close to conscious thought? That is nothing more than mockery. He hates the human body because it cannot do what he wants it to do. He hates the human body because his body has human emotions such as fear programmed right into the electrical grid of his brain. He holds hands with his brother in preparation for resurrection. Gods damnit!
The phallic imagery is overwhelming my argument! What an ugly picture. Anyway, to throw a bone to Lacan, he hates the human body because it lacks; but it is not really the Lacanian lack. It is not the lack of castration it is the lack of impotence. It is a real functional lack rather than a symbolic lack.
Cavil lacks the power of the machine he wishes he could be. Remember this: when Oedipus discovered that he unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, he gauged out his own eyes. That is a mockery of Oedipus Rex and a flagrant distortion of the psychology Freud claims it represents. This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
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