As Mary McDonnell’s President Laura Roslin led the galactic fleet through the cosmos, we were treated to intelligent debate over the pros and cons of democracy, of bloody revenge versus the rule of law, even whether the concept of human rights should be extended to sexy space robots. And with the enemy now wearing a human face, the show was able to explore fiercely contemporary corners of the post-9/11 landscape. Unlike their giant tin-can predecessors, these new Cylons were never quite sure whether they wanted to destroy humanity or take us on a really weird date. Arnold Schwarzenegger may have been pretty badass in Terminator, but Moore seemed to know instinctively that the new machine apocalypse should be led by 6ft, blond ultra-vixen cyborgs given to cooing sweet nothings into mankind’s ear. The answer, as every futuristic show from Humans to Westworld has since learned, was to go down the sexy robots route.
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