BSG’s Cylons Were Originally Daleks With Legs

What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Battlestar Galactica this week than by disillusioning fans ? We ’ll do that by lease you know just how unoriginal the show ’s robotic bad guys really were . It ’s not enough that they looked like Darth Vader ’s flash , silver cousins – now we find out that they were originally intended to have been very similar to Doctor Who ’s favored alien cyborgs , as well . As part of a retrospective look at the creation of BSG ’s Cylons , original designer Andrew Probert revealed the hidden Dalek - eque origin that we were all spared :

Originally the Galactica motion picture ( for overseas distribution ) was film with dialog excuse that the Cylons were fauna . They were blind and created helmet scanners to see . That explains the helmets … The living Cylons were switch to golem for the TV series because of an hourly body - count limit for choice - time television system . There was , however , no limit to how many robots could be ‘ stamp out ’ per hour so they became robots and dialog was retool to explicate it all .

It ’s not often you ’ll hear us say this , but thank the Gods for connection goggle box criterion and practices . It ’s not that we ’re against the idea of Daleks with legs per se , but if the Cylons had been armor - fatigue aliens in the original show , it ’s unlikely that we would ’ve gotten the various twirl , turns and headfraks render by the sleeper federal agent in Ron Moore ’s reinvention of the show.the unfeigned chronicle of the cylons[Darth Mojo ]

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