The Cylons

[@Pb-ij4ip]

The Cylons may be my favorite robots from my childhood, but then again, Maximilian from “The Back Hole” was pretty awesome too.

[@archades115]

Maximilian genuinely frightened me, especially during that last scene in what looked like Hell.

[@Pb-ij4ip]

@@archades115 I can definitely understand that. I guess I got off easy. My experience back then was with a Fisher Price record player and a 45 rpm record that replayed the story while I read along in a book. When it’s just still shots and Max shredding Anthony Hopkin’s guts is deleted (as well as the Hell scene) he’s more awe inspiring than terrifying.

[@zacharyjochumsen9677]

@@Pb-ij4ip you try find replica cylon helmet

[@InYourDreams-Andia]

Agree!

[@Andy-dz7us]

What about klatuu. Klatuu, veradu, nikktu.

[@MikeKobb]

I remember laughing so hard when the Pegasus episode aired, when the one Cylon said, "I *really* think you should take a look at the other Battlestar!"

[@kalvinjennings7757]

Best Cylon reply ever!🤣

[@SixaraTM]

That was funny! While the whole time Baltar was oblivious to the scene and spouting out his own self-glory.

[@altha2008]

What other Battlestar Get us out of here you fool

[@elta6241]

If I may........ He was really polite.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@altha2008 Baltar had to get fresh pants after that..... 💩

[@evanmiller9026]

A conversation between a cylon and a dalek would make my day ^^

[@SportyMabamba]

[@josephhinkofer9516]

And add the Cybermen as well! LOL!

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@SportyMabamba That's what I was thinking of too, lol.

[@minicle426]

Shockwave from The Transformers.

[@johntabler349]

Showed my 5 year old granddaughter a video of the original cylons and with no other knowledge of the show she immediately determined that they were the best bad guy robots ever

[@hughmellerick4417]

There you go. Innocence like that can really be trusted to verify the Truth in things.

[@KH_K-b5m]

I wasn't much older when I first saw them and my verdict was the same. I really hadn't seen other robots though - but the following 40 years after that I have, and nothing comes even close. Iconic. Greetings to your granddaughter! 🙌

[@stevenbaer5999]

I always love the Cylons voice especially the golden one. 🤖🪖

[@KH_K-b5m]

Cylons are thee coolest thingies ever! As a kid I was completely in awe and that hasn't changed. 🤩

[@mj6258]

Best robot voices EVER.

[@chrisurwin9310]

The gold centurion with the deeper voice...hands down

[@sinonistoyemi6327]

jean michel jarre used the exact same vocoder on his track revolutions

[@dan_hitchman007]

@@chrisurwin9310 It's the same voice actor for all of them. The engineers just pitched the track differently for the various cylons.

[@darrenkeady6570]

@@chrisurwin9310 . I agreez

[@elta6241]

I loved the original Cylons.

[@moga1968]

Wowwwwwww Great Noslalgy!!!!!! Miss to 80'..... Where is the childhood .. the inocente, the imaginaition of child..

[@battlestarmarc]

Great sci fi series. Cylons were so bad ass.

[@Andy-dz7us]

CYLONS........ the scariest Aliens in the universe.

[@richardjohnson4238]

There used to be a guy in our area who had been operated on for throat cancer, and spoke with an artificial voice box. He was on the CB radio one evening when a kid who apparently was listening spoke up..."MAN! You do the BEST Cylon voice ever!" This was during the late 70's I guess it was? The height of the CB radio craze and BSG.

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Chrome was high tech in the 70s, the spooky base stars and Cylon traps really were freaky, but cool.

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

I like how one Cylon comes out with "I understand the scouts came back with *exciting* news" in the usual monotone manner. I'd really hate to see how the Centurions throw a celebratory do.

[@Isotec1]

Imagined if ABC-TV had given Glen the one year production pushback time he needed to make the series.

[@altha2008]

Galatica 1980 would had been better if they did not have all them kids on it all the time

[@GunGriffin187]

​@altha2008 it was still dumb the did it too cut the budget by 80% removed 90% of the cylons made it set in modern times had them riding around with super motorcycles with laser eyes "a stupid kid toy idea" and had then for literally 8 episodes in a row fighting biker gangs and had 4 more where they joined the Mormon church... none if which made sense or fit with the previous series at all.... BSG 1980 was a complete travesty and insult too the original show.. if ABC had let the creative team do their job they could of had a top notch sequel where the final colony was "hyper advanced, or super primitive" and had a great final series like they wanted in fact the original outline was for them too find earth and it was uninhabited with only bits of evidence of our former modern civilization...

[@AldenRDavis]

"By your command." - Cylon Centurion

[@hughmellerick4417]

These cylons are incredibly iconic. They are absolutely out on their own. Really mysterious, sinister and perfectly encapsulate the unfeeling coldness of a machine. A pity that a really proper remake of this 'universe', has not yet happened. Someone like Peter Jackson would be perfect. Fantastic director, but also extremely devoted to maintaing the spirit of source material in his reenactments.

[@Ghalaghor_McAllistor]

A Borg, a Cylon, a Cyberman and a Dalek meet in a bar...

[@Zurround]

And the T800 walks in and beats the crap out of all of them for not immediately handing over their clothes, boots and motorcycle to him.

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

And then Chuck Norris walks in, and they all run out.

[@viowave]

Cylons, Cybermans are individuals. Having a mind of their own and 'free will' and in a sense a counterpart of humans soldiers who follow militairy orders as well, yet are capable on their own. Daleks have some ... yet are too structured by the chain of command and show no emotion. A Borg is a drone just doing what is commanded - see also a T-800 - without the learning chip to be more human if deployed under humans.

[@KyleS3m3noff]

As much as I love the show, in retrospect the Imperious Leader really was just Space Rick James.

[@axel4196]

Lol I was diggin the fro!

[@cardphins68]

Yep, the Imperious Leader was into Jheri Curl, classic!

[@jrident]

These things were the stuff of my 7 year old nightmares.

[@moiggc]

These original Cylons were perfect in the sense of 'feeling' cold and mechanical. Alien, if you will. Something, imo, the later series lacked. Where the Cylons just seemed like bitter, angry humans.

[@dan_hitchman007]

The cylons bred their version of Replicants... bioengineered and enhanced humans. Humans can be a bit snarky.

[@moiggc]

@@dan_hitchman007 so, they evolve to become every bit as human as humans themselves? Now you're not fighting a race of emotionless cold reptiles anymore, you're fighting just another sad bitter version of the rebellious teenager.

[@dan_hitchman007]

@@moiggc Well, that's the point. The Cylons thought they were designing the perfect infiltrators and terrorists that the pure humans couldn't detect. However, with human emotions there were always risks they didn't foresee as the original machine Cylons didn't have emotions to begin with. Some Cylon/human hybrids could decide to have emotional attachments to humans and therefore switch loyalties.

[@moiggc]

@@dan_hitchman007 For sure, as a plot concept goes, it is very interesting. But as far as sci-fi plots go these days, there isn't anything new or different. It's like space Dallas lol. If I was writing for this, I would've added something to the Cylons that 'seems' human, but for sure isn't human. Just my opinion, tho. Same goes for the last V, too much relatable human (read: drama) emotions and culture.

[@bluethunder6801]

Fantastic 70s classic!! Love the cylons voice, although i was shite scared of them as a child

[@Zurround]

Imagine an R rated version where they are shown brutally killing people.

[@Sennmut]

The Cylons. The perfect electronic embodiment of evil.

[@epaddon]

Original Cylons only! :) (2004 ones not welcome)

[@Sennmut]

@@epaddon Absolutely! The real deal only need apply.

[@unclebob7937]

The post 2000 version has all the fun elements replaced by a sketchy soap opera imo.

[@quietlightning4063]

The Imperious Leader of Galactica 1980 sounds like something from Monty Python 😂

[@manueltheunissen9089]

These Cylons are great, much better then in the remake...Also the overall soundeffects were much better then the ones in the remake.....

[@michaelmachado2572]

I want one of those actual suits. Totally super badass.

[@gordonrose7097]

I loved that series it was more realistic than most

[@pekkanikkonen3070]

Gordon Rose i agree with this special serie.During year's sounds really good without a afraid

[@ProperLogicalDebate]

When I first heard this on not the best audio I couldn't tell if it was "by your command" or as a homage to their originators "bio command".

[@BS-ij5wq]

Cylons gave me chills in the day!…🥺

[@PLL02A]

I love the old Cylons, the new ones on the new series suck, then so does the new series.

[@FaqUrNwoBS]

ok boomer

[@hughmellerick4417]

@@FaqUrNwoBS a hole

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

@@FaqUrNwoBS OK Zoomer.

[@jamesmorrison1683]

No remake was ever half as good as the original Battlestar Galactica.

[@danny2m12]

I have never seen a single episode of the new series. It got my attention when they announced a modern version of Battlestar Galactica. But I was disappointed with the changes made to the series. The original was so much better, in many ways.

[@SixaraTM]

Totally agree. Used to come on every Sunday night back in the late 70s/ Early 80s. Has never been anything as great as BSG since then.

[@hughmellerick4417]

They need a director like Peter Jackson I think, who is very dedicated to source material, and vaulting the spirit of what made an original tale so good in the first place. With modern film making tech, this could be an ENORMOUS blockbuster now to younger viewers, if it was done right by keeping crucial aspects like the voice and the cylon costumes. They were very very scary to us as children.

[@eenjoch9212]

@@danny2m12 how can you say the new one is bad when you haven't seen a single episode?

[@SDeww]

the awesome voice is what they missed in blood and chrome, and followup series.

[@flauwegeit]

Goodbye Your Command >< Goodbye precious childhood days

[@Steven-wz7sh]

The music was great.

[@pamelachilds1449]

The Cylons probably have no regrets because they are all machines.

[@mrceleb2006]

The Cylons remind me of the scary-as-Hell robot voice heard on Boney M.'s "Nightflight to Venus"!

[@39Hundred]

I wonder if the Cylons’ voice is what inspired Soundwave from the original 1984 Transformers cartoon.

[@dmichael1172]

Never thought of that soundwave was like cylon in voice.

[@davemiller6055]

These guys are much better than the new Cylons.

[@Mrburger-um8by]

I want to sound like the cylons ....go to Starbucks and order a coffee in that voice.... 👀

[@borysnijinski331]

You would think, being robots, that communication would be better and faster using Bluetooth instead of speaking.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I prefer the Cylons from the 1978 series over the Cylons from the 2004 reboot.

[@robertleiter4388]

awesome really takes me back to being a kid thanks so much for this

[@michaelblackwell7408]

An argument between a cylon soldier and Rosie O'Donnell would end in a laser blast.

[@jaysonreynolds6340]

Anyone notice how cylons and sound wave from transformers cartoon sound alike

[@altha2008]

I still like the Cylons a lot better form the old series then the robot ones form that sorry remake,,, However the human like cylons especially the Blond did look good

[@Ohotniktrolly]

While I really did like the reimagined series , it still doesn’t hold a candle to the original. The original’s characters had a quality of nobility that I found lacking in the later series.

[@michaelblackwell7408]

If shows represent the era that they are made then we've really went downhill. And you're absolutely right. There was little code of honor, everyone bickering and stabbing each other in the back on a daily basis. It was becoming a soap opera with cut scenes of space battles

[@andreamitchell4758]

But why does Dunkin Donuts keep on hiring them? every time i go there i see them behind the counter trying to take my order but they can't understand me

[@hughmellerick4417]

Haha!! 😂

[@Rezonak]

The Kraftwerk army...

[@unclebob7937]

This is where Toyota/Lexus stole their front grill design! The Cylons have a good lawsuit.

[@thundertears]

Just imagine cylon vs the borg

[@hughmellerick4417]

Come on the cylons!!!

[@lees.4084]

Those golmonging Cylons.....

[@johnneumann6229]

Listen you golmonging snitrad

[@SebastianJung422]

The Grand Parents From Daft Punk 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@UltraKryptonian]

That Imperious Leader voice must have been from the spin-off show, Galactica 1980!

[@johnneumann6229]

The imperious leader's voice was Patrick Mcnee John Steed from The Avengers

[@johnneumann6229]

Also Lucifer's voice was Jonathan Harris Doctor Smith Is from Lost in Space

[@jackbristow432]

It might have been from an out take before the dubbing for the finished product. It sounded a bit off from how the Imperious Leader sounded. The cadence was too fast and the voice sounded too emotional.

[@setgreen7877]

Awesome

[@ADAPTATION7]

Daft Punk sure looked different back then. 👀

[@donaldmisgen5743]

This is Great

[@RppRussell]

Man...I don't ever remember seeing robots being so damn shiny! (What the hell did they do, spend countless off-hours buffing up their armors?)

[@RobertNielsen1970]

In "The Young Lords," we see a whole phalanx, at least, of Cylons buffing up their weapons, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility to think that they could have spent hours buffing their armor. Just sayin'.

[@hughmellerick4417]

😂😂😂😂

[@Rezonak]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@anthonymatzat6992]

@@RobertNielsen1970 the remake of Battlestar Galactica in like its razor offshoot showed the 1970's cylons still hanging around,and some of their base stars as well,I guess Dean Stockwell as human Cylon number 1 must have had nostalgia for the 1970's cylons cause he let them guard the Cylon colony,and even the 2003 Starbuck,and Apollo were surprised to see the 70's cylons still kicking ass,then the conversion of humans into cylons 1-12 that grossed me out,reminded me of pigs getting killed for bacon,and pork chops,and originally the cylons wanted to mate with us on hospital farms back on Caprica,and Starbuck became a human lab rat after baltar failed his sex education class with human cylon#6, must have been Dean Stockwell's character that wanted sex between humans,and cyclone, too bad music group midnight star didn't get to do their freakazoid song for Battlestar Galactica,Larson,and them would have made a fortune,at least the guy on midnight star used the vocalizer of the cylons in their songs, wonder if Richard hatch,and dirk benedict burned out their copies of freakzoid to honor the cylons,and I felt dirk got a 70's cylon to pose for the a team opening credits,wonder how much the guy posing as a 70's Cylon got for the opening sequence of the a team for wearing the body suit underneath the silver outer shell,also wonder if cobra commander in 80's go Joe loved 70's cylons so he made a head mask of destro that made him look like 70's Cylon,plus didn't. Hasbro write the 70's Battlestar Galactica comics,wonder would have happened if the 70's cylons had to save us from 80's deception Megatron,that might have been a cool series,wonder if hasbro along with Micheal bay ,or his protégé might want to work on this type of crossover series,while some of us were freaking out about normal stuff like keeping a home,and job and imagine if this started in states like Colorado where weed is legal,imagine so folks so high they thought this was just a play,and thanking the cylons for saving their bacon,cause megatron wanted a human hippies barbecue,then pay Tommy Chong for being the human who says far out to the Cylon,then drives his pineapple express truck to the dispensary he runs for a reload,and have Seth Rogen be head of security,or Mike Meyers,and Dana carvey.

[@gcman1111]

Video game berserk was really BSG.

[@markthomas4397]

Also I would like to say that the new Battlestar did not have anything at all like Lucifer and or Spectre. These kind of specialty cylons would look fabulous if done right with the CGI. Lucifer/ the amazing Johnathan Harris, keep his voice.

[@dan_hitchman007]

No CGI. You could make them as practical animatronics that would look better.

[@markthomas4397]

No freaking way, that's the whole goddamn point, either Mason look as good or for god sakes with the goddamn technology orchidee build on it and make it look proper. I don't know who you people are today but you're not the Pioneers that the people myself and others were that created the magic that gave you the incentive to do what it is with the Techno Magic you have today. If not for The 10% of the world of vision and science, all of you techno device lay Moe's, would be living in Huts, wearing rags, and eating out of wooden bowls. I love and appreciate and thank all of the great Visionaries and techno magicians. Mister Tesla, the man who is responsible for our modern-day way of life, was the greatest Master visionary and mechanical, magical, genius the world has ever known and been so grateful to have done so. Thanks to Mr Tesla and and all of you great Geniuses throughout time. Thank you so very very much. M. M.

[@anthonymatzat6992]

If the 2003 Battlestar had lucifer, it might have Edward j o as Adama rethink his view of cylons,since even lucifer was smarter than baltar from the 1970's cause he told another cylon in front of 70's baltar,and the 70's was still around before 70's Apollo shot him,so if a old worn out captain of a space air craft carrier could deal with lucifer,maybe the cylons weren't. all bad toasters as our other side of the galaxy humans felt,plus in star trek the 12 colonies of kobol would have been in the delta quadrant where the borg called home,according to 7of9 when Kate Mulgrew as Janeway rehumanized 7,then she joined Patrick Stewart's crew in star trek Picard,wonder how much Jeri Ryan is worth after joining star trek after modeling,I gather had Tricia Helfer not got the part of human cylon#6jeri Ryan might have crossed over from star trek to bsg 2003,must be cool to be a female model when Sci fi calls especially if you get to be a bad guy,who seduces Brainiac humans like baltar for our computer defense codes,why would cylons needed the codes just send Tricia,and Jeri out ,and they would have had us around the fingers instead of frying us like irradiated chickens,wonder if the 1970's cylons were related to the 1980's reptiles in the series v, who thought we humans were walking happy meals ,and they even cooked us like McDonald's did ,except vegan Freddy Kruger actor Robert Englund,just wanted a new home,he didn't want us humans as road kill,he was happy at his hippie juice joint outside Los Angeles,California,but I guess some so called exterrestials have to be ruthless,interesting the 1980's v series was about galactic nazis as reptiles doing what human hitler couldn't do,but its 2000's version like bsg 2003 was too humanizing in guerrilla warfare,and not th 1970's movies about plants replicating and taking over in invasion of the body snatchers,and the Andromeda strain about space spores infecting us,and mutating us,which is probably how if there are extraterrestrials outside earth they would really do it,this is probably why some folks don't trust vaccination,since it parts of other stuff being injected into our bodies to teach our immune systems to protect us,I've learned this having a virologist as a cousin,and all the blood shots I've had in my life to keep me going through now,and I also learned this from the book,and movie the fantastic voyage about humans injected into another human to save his life,and another model Raquel welch was a scientist in the movie,and this was in the 1960's before star trek,star wars,and Battlestar Galactica,then knight rider,and other Sci fi series,even space 1999 was in the 1960's, even the Japanese already artificial intelligence on their minds before Hasbro created transformers in 1981-85,and the Japanese might create cylons,just watch a hasbro show in 2012 called littlest pet shop where they spoof a toy store using a actual Cylon from the 1970's as a security gaurd in a Amazon type toy store,and it was created in Japan,where big bad Godzilla came from after we dropped some bombs off their coast in the mid 1940's-50's,and now we have a hardon collider underneath Europe which is smashing atoms that might create future energy,or future earthquake's,which ever comes first,not to go off on a tangent,just pondering how we create stuff that can kill us without pondering the consequences of our actions as humans,and interesting at the end of the remake Battlestar Galactica angelic versions of human cylons debate whether we will do this all over again,and its the old saying don't pay attention to history,we end up repeating. it., even if we're on side of the milky way galaxy,then the other. side,since earth 1 was the other side of the milky way galaxy and we're on earth 2 on our side of the milky way galaxy according to 21 century Galactica,if you look at the wiki page about the remake.

[@VulcanOnWheels]

I see some repetition in this video, but it's still a nice compilation.

[@bradlycopeland4297]

I've always wonder where the Cylons got there power's.

[@SixaraTM]

If I remember, The "actual Cylons" from the old series were a reptilian species. Hence the imperious leader being biological. They created the Cylon robots "chrome domes" to keep their race alive as they were dying out.

[@albertrandall6388]

See Battlestar Galactica pilot movie 1978 and you will know.

[@FranciscoAssis-fj3vq]

Inesquecível

[@robertfortier2136]

*The Imperious Leader's voice should be Paul McNee.*

[@richardlahan7068]

Patrick McNee

[@josephhinkofer9516]

Patrick Macnee.

[@johnneumann6229]

The voice is Patrick Mcnee John Steed from The Avengers

[@valentineblabla5056]

Lutz. Das is Epic

[@brain69gehirn77]

I want that suite

[@junior1138]

Always thought these guys were a bit chubby. . .

[@nicholasfifita560]

There is a no whisper mode

[@cylonvoiceguy]

It's a shame this is so very low resolution/low quality.

[@GUNDAM-NOLASAINTS]

Who were the Cylons? Where did they Originate? Why hate humans? Are Battle Stars powerful than BaseStars?

[@nopcshere6097]

I read somewhere that the Cylon machines evolved from a lizard like race. The machine cylons supposedly overwhelmed the originals. It's not clear why they are on a mission to exterminate humans. This was an order of the Imperious Leader, however. My guess is that humans stood in the way of Cylon galactic domination, and of course the cylons wanted to get rid of that obstacle. Battlestars are more heavily armed than Base ships, but my guess is that the Base Ship can carry more aircraft than a Battlestar.

[@brianperry4713]

The Cylons had enslaved an alien race and the humans/ colonialists had freed them. This is what started the conflict.

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

@@nopcshere6097 there would be the ability for an infinite number of Cylon fighters whereas Battlestars had no way of producing any. They also were full of unnecessary people. Imagine if everyone on a modern Aircraft Carrier had their family along.

[@WannabeWRX]

The robots were created by the Cylon reptile race as subservient drones. The reptiles died off thousands of years ago. The robot Cylons started a war with the Colonials that lasted 1000 years before the start of the series. Apollo tells this to Boxey in the first episode/movie.

[@hughmellerick4417]

@@thegreenerthemeaner Interesting perspective. "Unnecessary people": what would the operators of the Battlestars BE without their people?? General ant (trying to genocide ant colony): "It's for the good of the colony." Z: "But we ARE the colony!"

[@dalekwarrior6515]

it sounds like the moonbase cyberman

[@mannydib]

Their eyes were really expensive so they only got one and it had to scan back and forth

[@TrashCanComputerChris]

cool bruvh

[@joshuaamitai]

why did they not use lucifer in the new galactica?

[@MOPARGUY413]

Is that real chrome?

[@dr.eugeniodacruz4391]

Se são cilonios máquinas hoje se vê uns maiores que outros ? Mas máquinas são produzidas em massa deveriam ser todos do mesmo tamanho engraçado ne

[@dj2bklyn]

why sis the Cylons wear aprains lol

[@joseluistrigosrodriguez9598]

MACHO DROIDS : Battlestar Galáctica. GAY DROIDS: Star Wars.

[@CrazyFunnyCats]

What if your dog starting talking like this ? I want food 🐶human

[@gus.smedstad]

It's fascinating how awful the original Cylons were. Particularly anything that *wasn't* a Centurion. The translucent IL model at 0:49 looks like a kid's toy. The Centurions mostly suffered from being far, far too shiny. The designs show a distinct lack of imagination, which is funny, since the original BSG was largely about cashing in on the popularity of the first Star Wars movie. A movie which had *lots* of innovative, one-off droid designs, like all the ones stuck in the cargo hold of the Jawa landcruiser. I don't remember any of that dialog, either, beyond the iconic "by your command." Some of it works, some of it comes across as absurd when run through that robotic voice filter. It's a pity that the 2003 remake was so, so focused on human-replica Cylons (mainly so humans could have sex with the model 6 and model 8, near as I can tell). The revised Centurions have no apparent personalities. I'm not sure any of them have speaking roles, ever.

[@evilkirk607]

The Cylons are so dam cool.