Battlestar Galactica miniseries

In the opening sequence of Battlestar Galactica’s miniseries, we see the words “The Cylons were created by Man.

They were created to make life easier on the Twelve Colonies.

And then the day came when the Cylons decided to kill their masters.”

I can’t help but to be reminded of “I, Robot,” where the robots that were created to serve and to aid the human race ended up turning on everybody and trying to kill them. No matter what technology is created and how advanced it becomes, there will always be a glitch. Nothing is perfect, nothing ever will be, even if it looks like it is, it’s not.

Here, the Cylons turned on the very people that made them in order to gain power over the humans (for reasons which I still don’t really know). In order to do this so efficiently, they (specifically, Number Six) become more human like, living the way that humans do, doing the things that humans do. Once the humanistic robots gains the trust of the real humans, that’s when they strike. For example, when Number Six asked to see the woman’s baby, she carefully holds it and cradles it like any normal person would. Once the mother knows that the “woman” means no harm and can be trusted, she turns her head and talks to her husband. In that moment, the “woman” kills the baby and disappears without anybody noticing, leaving the mother to cry out in horror when she finds her baby dead in its stroller. This goes to show all of us that the things that we trust and depend on to do the things that we need the most can betray us. Who knows, maybe someday our iPods will take over the world (Scary Movie 4 anybody?)