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Bridget ([personal profile] bugshaw) wrote2009-08-31 02:45 pm

Popular culture tickybox

I have now watched all of Battlestar Galactica.

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2009-08-31 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It has all happened before and will happen again - it seemed to tie things up in a way that satisfied me. More of an ending than a climax, maybe? Though Hitchhikers has spoiled me for the pastoral happy ending :-)
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2009-08-31 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I assume you noticed the bathtub on the bridge, just before the B Ark crashed?

I think it was [livejournal.com profile] swisstone who pointed out that this was the intro to the original BSG:
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis.

which fits quite nicely.

Oh, and Edward James Olmos likes to think that it fits back into his work on Bladerunner, where mankind has started producing artifical humans, who will once again attempt to replace them...

[identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com 2009-08-31 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Bathtub, oh yes :-)

I think "skin job" was coined in Blade Runner?
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2009-08-31 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
How on earth did I miss that??
One of the most prominent examples of Replicant-like robots in modern culture are the humanoid Cylons on the Sci-Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica. Blade Runner was acknowledged as an influence on the series. Actor Edward James Olmos, who stars in the series, also co-starred in Blade Runner. Tricia Helfer, who plays the main humanoid-Cylon character "Number Six" on the series, was having trouble determining how to play a humanoid robot when production began, so co-star Olmos advised her to watch Blade Runner. Helfer has stated that it greatly informed how she approached the role. The human resistance on Cylon-occupied Caprica even referred to the Cylons as "skin jobs," the slang term for Replicants from Blade Runner, in the late season 2 episode "Downloaded". Episode writer Bradley Thompson inserted the line hoping science fiction fans would notice and enjoy the reference: the term met with popular reception by fans, and subsequently many characters in the next two seasons of the series regularly refer to the humanoid Cylons as "skin jobs".

[identity profile] 1ngi.livejournal.com 2009-08-31 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the distinct Hitchhiker feel at the end too!