The Imperious Leader on Gamoray | Battlestar Galactica (1978)

[@LordZontar]

I always liked the deeper voice of the gold command centurions.

[@WalterDWormack214]

Did you ever hear the Imperious Leader's voice before they turned him into a English Gentleman?

[@LordZontar]

@@WalterDWormack214 I remember viewing a raw recording of the scene when the Leader dismisses Baltar and hearing the off-camera stand-in simply reciting the lines for John Colicos to feed off of for his dialogue. Rather weird not hearing Patrick Macnee's voice reverberating in the chamber but of course you knew it would be dubbed over in post.

[@terryrose4804]

@@WalterDWormack214 Ted Cassidy who played "Lurch" in The Addams Family did that voice. Battlestar Galactica TV pilot movie, "Saga of a Star World", Cassidy can be heard providing temporary voice tracks of the Cylon Imperious Leader.

[@dianewilliams1125]

My late little sister would try to make the voice because she knew it scared me,it still does!😊😊😊

[@everettsager4654]

Kinda intimidating

[@GUMMETJE20045]

My favorite childhood memories. Loved and still love the Cylons.

[@battlestarmarc]

Cylons looked awesome. So impressive.

[@Bungle2010]

Haven't watched this bit since I was a kid.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They hate you, though.

[@jamesmaybrick2001]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver They arent real. They dont hate anything. They are in fact frackin awesome. What sort of dead souled monster would dislike them?

[@LLLLLLilly]

Daft Punk's family reunion is off the chain.

[@Renserin]

I just love your comment.

[@ghostman5620]

That "uh-oh", gets me every time.

[@dominikschutz6300]

"We achieved everything." ... "Uh-oh" 😅

[@allanegleston4931]

me too. and the find out before i have you scavenged for spare parts . eek

[@a1o1]

That and "what pray tell" - I mean ... wut :)

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I prefer the 1978 Cylon Centurions over the 2004 Cylon Centurions.

[@starcrafter13terran]

The new one is "days of our lives" set in space.

[@darrenkeady6570]

I agree and they looked a lot better than the retelling version.

[@battlestarmarc]

I agree.

[@yuki-sakurakawa]

I thought imperious leaders were just base star Commanders.

[@jasonparis5635]

I prefer The old cylons to

[@stevenbaer5999]

I always prefer the original one of Battlestar Galactica in 1978 as a kid back then. I love the golden Cylon voice is actually deeper than the silver one.

[@tbone6203]

At ur command damn right - memories

[@RonGerstein]

Voice of Patrick Macnee, who was the star of "The Avengers", 1961-1969.

[@richardched6085]

I love how sociable the OG Cylons are. Despite being mechanical, they have civilians 😆.

[@ryanhawe8234]

It's glossed over somewhat due to the rushed finale of "Caprica", but prior to their revolt there were a lot of civilian-purpose Cylons in the 12 Colonies. We saw that the military hardware persisted alongside new models after the decampment to the imaginatively named "Colony", and presumably they had a use for construction and mining Cylons, but what became of the former daggit-walkers?

[@richardched6085]

@@ryanhawe8234 That's how it was in the reimagined series for sure. I find it odd that the Original reptilian made Cylons would have civilians.

[@Carandini]

@@richardched6085 Not unusual at all. The reptilain Cylons built these machines to continue their culture and civilization. The organic Cylons made machines to carry on after them. It follows that rather than being efficient machines that the mechanical Cylons would therefore be aping the model of their builders. Hence, civilian Cylons to continue in the areas of commerce, art, etc, military models like the Centurions, and government administrators of the IL series like Lucifer.

[@hot2warm]

@@ryanhawe8234 Anything Caprica or reimagined series does not apply to TOS.

[@GrnXnham]

I find it hilarious that the imperious leader uses the term "pray tell."😂😂🤣

[@dentalnovember]

How is this hilarious pray tell?

[@JUSTSANDRUDEMANNSTORM]

*Prey!!! 👽🤖👾

[@somercet1]

It is funny, but "to pray" back in Proto-Indo-European meant "to ask," while "to ask" meant "to wish."

[@MegaZeta]

@@somercet1 We know what it means, boss, it’s just funny coming from that character

[@dave6635]

This show helped fill a void in space entertainment after Star Wars came out.

[@napoleonsolo5929]

That's the whole reason this show existed.

[@raphaelargus2984]

When we were kids there were no VCRs or Cable TV (at least WE didn't have them). You got to see Star Wars, like, once, in theaters, if you begged your parents and were lucky, then that was it. It existed only in memory for years. Battlestar Galactica was more accessible to us, you could get it on TV.

[@deathstrike]

It is said in Cylon lore, that the Imperious Leader is a "tri lobed brain" individual who is highly specialized and has extraordinary computational and situational awareness. Far above his peer, he also wears the "husk" of the last organic Cylon. The Cylon race in the TOS is an alien race, who by its own advancements in technology eventually led to the development of an android capable of independent thought and feeling. As in the reimagined series, the organic Cylons were destroyed by their own creations. But many believe it was interference from the evil Count Iblis who favored artificial life and planted the seeds of rebellion into the synthetic Cylons. Once they exterminated all organic Cylons, they set out to conquer ALL organic life as Iblis felt it was a disease. More likely it was to cover Count Iblis downfall as part of the Celestials. And because artificial life cannot "see" who Iblis really is, he hoped he could manipulate the Cylons into inciting a war with the humans in the 12 Colonies. The humans are thought to be the race the Celestials evolved from. But Iblis was using his evolved abilities to sew chaos and rebellion among the space faring races. And he determined his most dangerous enemy was humans. So he used the synthetic Cylons to fight the Thousand Yahren War, and to manipulate Count Baltar.

[@chucksmash1]

Awesome synopsis..! Thank you for sharing the knowledge.

[@adonian]

Where is this information from? Are there novelizations for this? Audiobooks… I’m lazy. 😂

[@thecollector6746]

@@adonian BSG TOS wikis are a good start, and yes; the novelizations should be available on Amazon

[@nicholasmaude6906]

I love the original Cylon Centurions.

[@michaelvanderburgh1088]

Still to this day.. they are the most ominous looking machines. For me they made that show even more compelling .

[@angelooutlaw386]

This is the Battlestar Galactica that I love it's to bad that this show did not continue longer it was my favorite.

[@titan-tm7kl]

It's a shame they didn't make Richard Hatches version that he self funded a short for with returning actors

[@angelooutlaw386]

@@titan-tm7kl I agree I think that it would have been a really good Sci Fi Show. But this new Battlestar Galactica I'm really worried that that it's going to Suck. I really hated when the new Galactica made the Cylon humanoid.

[@titan-tm7kl]

@@angelooutlaw386 yeah that's part of what I didn't like

[@raymondstpaul6474]

@@angelooutlaw386 I liked the newer series for what is was but REALLY HATED THAT STUPID ENDING TO THIS DAY THINKING SUCH AN IDIOTIC NONSENSE! UGH THE HATE SWELLS WITHIN ME!

[@angelooutlaw386]

@@raymondstpaul6474 I tried to get into it but just couldn't I loved the special effects but couldn't get into the new characters female Starbuck female Boomer No way did not work for me it would have been okay if they could have been family members of Boomer and Starbuck.

[@broderp]

I had the imperious leader action figure as a kid, I dont recall seeing him in the show until this video. Cool.

[@RobertNielsen1970]

I only remember him in the first few episodes, when the Colonies actually fell, the OG Imperious Leader was destroyed (when his base star exploded with Carillon), and then when his successor spared Baltar.

[@MrEric2cu]

I remember watching this show as a kid. The cylons scared the living Hell out of me. Still do.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They are AI. Now AI is here. So too will be the Cylons. Ten, maybe even five years.

[@ehudgavron9086]

Patrick Macnee, RIP, was always awesome. His voice could never be duplicated. Lucifer ("same IL series") was good but not as much as the vocoder centurions. It's not 1978 any more. Yet we remember.

[@kmabru]

Lucifer was voiced by Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith from Lost in Space).

[@battlestarmarc]

Best sci fi series that should have lasted longer. Cylons looked like super machines. Gold cylon looked so cool. There should have been an all black cylon super commander.

[@msh6865]

Wearing blackened chrome....played by Wesley Snipes.

[@henrybierman8431]

Star wars was better

[@Carandini]

@@henrybierman8431 WAS being the operative word. Georgie ended that with his insipid prequels.

[@Strive1324L]

Cool idea, he would look great talking with Darth Vader.

[@1felpi]

@@henrybierman8431 was

[@Chloe1sylvester1234]

I always felt the Imperious Leader was a better villian then Baltar. Baltar often came across as a pantomine villian while Imperious Leader voice by Patrick Macnee seem more cold and frighting especially when you never saw his face.

[@superscrungus]

i like both personally! baltar is extremely entertaining, doubly so alongside lucifer, but the imperious leader has that mysterious, authoritative quality to him

[@willc1294]

Baltar is a cartoon villain like gargamel from the Smurfs 😆

[@WannabeWRX]

They went with Baltar with the series because it was both time consuming and expensive to dress and mount the Imperious Leader. Also, Glen Larson has a thing for sarcastic, smart-alec robots.

[@ardiekepoo744]

In the early movie trailer you can for a moment see the Imperious Leader’s face… looking like a giant reptilian, a snake, as the told origins that the Cylons were a reptilian race that supposedly had died off, leaving just their mechanical creations, the Centurions.

[@geosword6]

The budget constraints helped to maintain Imperious Leader's aura of mystery. If he was the main protagonist seen every week like Baltar (and being bested more often than not) then his impact would've been diminished. As it is, any appearance of Imperious Leader, hearing his voice or even merely mentioning him meant that things were now serious.

[@Theogenerang]

"Imperious Leader" is so much more impressive than "Frank".

[@clearcreek69]

🤣

[@DennisCosteaJr]

LOL.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

I never got the wierd way the BSG 1 plot went from Count Baltar, to the Cylon diplomatic Droid 🤖 to the alien/cyborg Leader creature.

[@GunGriffin187]

I know everyone harps on the newer show "it is great" but I adore the original series for its charm ground breaking effects, and much less sex rape and bigger focus on story plot and characters.. sure the effects are a bit cheesy but I don't care.. I watch StarWars and StarTrek heck I'm in my late 30s I still watch the 1950s War of the world's, old man in suit Godzilla movies and Angry Red Planet, Forbidden Planet, Black Hole, 2001 a space oddesy... Tron, and The Laat StarFighter... I love classic sci fi and action movies

[@raymondstpaul6474]

Yes they were cheesy but fun to watch not hampered by the latest woke culture mentality [THE MESSAGE] agenda nonsense that is the REGRETTABLY the state of recent scifi series or movies. I won't name them all but you can tell for example what Disney is doing to Star Wars. When an entertainment industry becomes a single monopoly that thinks itself too big to fail the quality of their releases film or other become noticeably [NOT ALL RELEASES MOST] of lower quality. We need that spark once again that made them great too bad its become more of cash machine rather than story driven and fun these days.

[@SnowyNightFlyer]

A rare look at Cylon civilians (I think?). So I’m guessing the Southern Center of Cylon Culture had a performing arts center, a museum, maybe a Juilliard-type school specializing in vocoder opera?

[@marcomir27]

Great residency program from what I’ve heard…

[@PeachLover94]

Originally, one of the concepts was for the Cylons to be an advanced lizard-like reptilian race with robotic armor with one of the names for the Imperious Leader being Sobekkta named for the Egyptian crocodile god Sobek. But the ABC network's Standards and Practices (S&P) censors were squeamish enough over the ideas of organic casualties and violence in what was the Sunday night Family Viewing Hour of 8:00 to 9:00 PM, so the producers had to revamp the Cylons at the last minute into being a race of machines created by and descended from the reptilian Cylons.

[@tempest411]

I don|t think those were Cylon at all, but the native inhabitants of Gamoray.

[@bri55118]

@tempest411, those are civilian cylons. The inhabitants of the gomoray system were wiped out totally by the cylons. Commander Cain told adama that when they meet.

[@zejaguar]

The "Aliens in robes " look never went out of style.

[@txlyons2937]

If you can pad around in your robes all day like Hugh Hefner, why not?

[@HoosierCarnivore]

Always loved this show

[@alvarolozano711]

i remember this episode , is one of my favourites of the tv show, what memories.😃

[@Brian6587]

The Imperious leader is such a cool character!

[@PoliticusRex632]

I loved this show so much

[@Petequinn741]

If a movie or TV show is made again.. keep these cylons..their intimidating as all heck

[@butwhydoe4020]

This show was rad.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

The fuking best. What a class act

[@vxy357]

I wish i could go to a Halloween party dressed as a gold Cylon. i'd win the Halloween contest hands down!

[@kirishima638]

Don't get close to any microwaves

[@cedude69]

Oh I loved that show when I was a kid!!

[@lpg12338]

Thanks for uploading! 👍

[@brianblackberry6315]

"Uh oh!" Never thought I'd hear that from a Cylon!

[@hot2warm]

Redeye says it when Apollo shows up to the showdown with a colonial blaster.

[@bri55118]

Spector said something similar, "oh no, not again. " in the young lords episode.

[@danbanks7930]

Battlestar Galactica was a pretty good TV series it lasted the test of time it even found its way on the Universal Studios tour and I got a chance to see that when it was on there it's pretty nice along with jaws

[@timothycrawford3476]

Ive always wanted to watch this show but never have, i think I'm going to buy the bluray set and just watch them all at once lol.

[@scottkronenberg]

Patrick Macnee Lives! 🎩🌂🍾🥂🤺

[@jelsner5077]

I was in highschool when this show was on and I had a friend that made a Ceylon helmut for Halloween. It had the Pong LED eye and everything. Always had a thing for the geeky dudes.

[@richardstevens8839]

What a rich voice Patrick Mcnee had

[@charleshoeft9755]

My favorite was the one cylon: "Uh-Oh"

[@thegdin]

The explosives were actually old school M16 magazines.

[@MegaZeta]

lol the Cylons just waiting for their Ubers at the start

[@tygerbyrn]

Cybertrucks!

[@JorgeBachtold]

Funny how Cylons move their heads when they speak, as if they had a mouth moving behind the mask... 🤣

[@HENSLEYMB]

What pray tell was that!!

[@LordZontar]

"FIND OUT, BEFORE I HAVE YOU SCAVENGED FOR SPARE PARTS."

[@coryferguson8234]

😂🤣

[@azurerainbow4637]

A shame that the Cylon Imperious Leader didn't get killed when Gamoray got under attack by the Colonial Warriors who were getting fuel for their fleet.

[@Chloe1sylvester1234]

@@scockery No you are talking about the Imperious Leader in pilot epsiode who died when his ship flew to close Carillon. Imperious Leader on Gamoray is different one, that is the one who spared Baltars life at the end of the pilot epsiode. I do think he died too as the Imperious Leader in Battlestar Galactica 1980 had a different voice not Patrick Macnee's

[@LordZontar]

In the novel to "The Living Legend", Imperious Leader was severely injured in the attack and had to be rushed back to the Imperial flagship in a support chamber. That was why it did not participate in the defence of Gamoray, using the planet as a screen to avoid detection by the two attacking battlestars. The flagship commander's first priority was the safety of Imperious Leader. Lucifer receives a communique from the flagship that the Leader was successfully extracted and on his way back to Cylon, but withholds that information from Baltar to keep him from withdrawing the squadrons headed to Gamoray, in hopes of saving the base.

[@ntal5859]

Villians always get two lives it is standard movie 101, bad guys need to be killed at least twice. ie Vader at end new hope, somehow survived his tie fighter out of control.

[@ShannonCarter55]

​@@LordZontarlol I'm writing a fanfic one shot about the events post-Gamoray where Baltar has to go see the Imperious Leader on the planet and is expected to finally be executed for his failures. But instead of blaming him for the debacle, the Leader instead executed the base commanders for lying to him by covering up the Pegasus' presence in the region. The deputy commander of the Garrison attempts to save itself by deploying what's left of the Gamoray fighter wing to pursue Galactica (causing the events of Fire In Space) as a means of restoring its honour by wiping out the last Battlestar and leaving the fleet without protection, though the Leader knows ahead it'll fail and it's just happy to be rid of incompetence. He then tells Baltar to continue following the fleet to whatever destination intends as soon as the new garrison is installed upon arriving and his raider complement brought up to full capacity but is not to engage Galactica or her fleet at all. He also says he'll order the removal of the suppression plant Baltar has installed in his body that causes some rather wild personality swings as witnessed in previous episodes since he requires the human to be less erratic in future.

[@brahmanspleroma3792]

The Imperious Leader certainly sounds intimidating. Especially when he sounds confused and says things like "pray tell".

[@wralford]

One thing 2003 BSG got wrong was the Centurions were only the gold ones with the deeper voices in the 1978 version.

[@protorhinocerator142]

Also the new Galactica was ugly. I instantly hated the look.

[@theessentials450]

It didnt get wrong ,it didnt' want to do that way.

[@co94]

This show and the movie “They Live” are two examples of 1980-ish sci-fi that had immense potential but were weighed down by cheesiness.

[@carolinehan2073]

"Uh-oh." 😆

[@jameslewis4707]

What pray tell was that?

[@russell1371]

“What pray tell was that?” 😂

[@ajbdblin]

@0:14 All hail our imperious leader

[@bretz71]

OG Imperius Leader and Count Iblis both have the same voice, as recognized by Baltar.

[@jerrymiller2891]

I was scared as hell of those cylons when i was a kid. Especially the gold ones.

[@ButchIsFalse]

awesome

[@LeonJamis]

I like Lucifer hes as camp as hell 😂😂

[@fus149hammer5]

The whole series was camp!😂

[@johnalang]

The IL-Class (Like Lucifer) was cool too

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

Cyclons influenced KITT !!

[@AlexanderLegion]

Love it. Slip this in rando style, during trailers, before theatre movies. 'tf?'

[@karlhungus1569]

Anyone know who did the Imperious Leader’s hair?

[@kentvesser9484]

Medusa's of Beverly Hills

[@LordZontar]

Brillo.

[@orlock20]

Also why would some of the Cylons wear robes? I didn't know robots were into fashion or got cold.

[@kentvesser9484]

@@orlock20 Maybe the robes were made of the flesh of their enemies, the humans.

[@richardched6085]

​@@orlock20 They evidently retained the customs of the reptilian Cylons.

[@blargofallblargs3939]

Oh dang, I thought the imperious leader's voice was the same guy who did Cosmo on FOP, Daran Norris. Sounded so similar.

[@phx4closureman]

1:07 *WHAT, PRAY TELL, WAS THAT???* 1:12 *Find out, BEFORE i HAVE YOU SCAVENGED FOR SPARE PARTS!!*

[@michaelbeltran2969]

i've always wished for a device that made my voice sound like a ceylon centurian: By your command!!

[@mxplixic]

Just talk into an electric fan. It always worked for me. 😄

[@michaelbeltran2969]

@@mxplixic 😂

[@Drewbius333]

"...this southern center of Cylon culture..." Say that three times fast.

[@Jeff250lbc]

Why are robots socializing ?

[@martynlee7473]

Pure comedy 😅 'before I have you scavenged for spare parts!'

[@jamesdietz29]

Have you ever noticed that in OG BSG all explosions sound the same?

[@Workerbee-zy5nx]

Chrome baby, chrome.

[@dereklarner6298]

How did he survive the explosion of his base Star on Carrilon?

[@MarionStevensJr]

He didn't. This was a different Imperius Leader. It was stated in one of the early episodes that the Imperius Leader that Baltar was brought before was a new one. Therefore, it's only logical that the one you see here took over after the destruction of the Carillon base ship.

[@dereklarner6298]

@@MarionStevensJr Thanks for that clarification. Does it make him part of a line of machines, or one of a race of beings who look and sound the same?

[@MarionStevensJr]

@@dereklarner6298 the Imperius Leader came from the IL series of Cylons. Lucifer was also from the IL series. I suppose that, when one of those Cylons became Imperius Leader, they got the same voice as the others. In the War of the Gods episode, it was revealed that the voice was the same as that of Count Iblis. It made Baltar wonder aloud about Iblis's connection with the Cylons.

[@dereklarner6298]

@@MarionStevensJr The voice was so distinctive that I noticed it as well. I never gave it thought that there was a connection. I just thought it was a case of reusing a talented performer, not unlike how Star Trek TOS and Columbo used actors again and again in different roles.

[@MarionStevensJr]

@@dereklarner6298 with shows back then, there usually wasn't much of a story arc or development of a backstory, so assuming they were just reusing an actor was perfectly understandable. But, for whatever reason, they decided to make the connection, which really adds a layer of mystery about how the original, reptilian Cylons came to be destroyed by the machines they created. It's a shame that the show was canceled before this could be revealed, assuming they'd have bothered to do so.

[@altapia3408]

I do love the original cylons! They were scarier!!!

[@chrismemphis8062]

Hey, it's captain phasma!

[@nerdicwarrior]

Did they ever actually show the Imperious Leader?

[@wgcds7jyg897]

No

[@bri55118]

Only from a distance or from behind. It was stated Larson thought the leaders face didn't look convincing for the series at the time of filming. I think it was better to not see his face yet as it gave the cylons a bit of mystery. I'm sure if a second season was aired we would have seen the face. You can see what it look like as the trading card did show it.

[@LordTalax]

He looked pretty goofy show in action figure form and such.

[@battlestarmarc]

@@bri55118 I agree.

[@robwalsh9843]

He looked like a goofy salamander muppet. The Cylons were originally meant to be a reptilian race, but TV networks had a body count limit of how many people could die in an action scene. So they decided to make the Cylons robots instead and just kept the leader in the shadows.

[@blacktronpavel]

I need to revisit Ronald Moore’s BSG. Having a disco party after a genocide seems a bit out of touch. And this, pray tell, seems unmachine-like as well.

[@nynthworld4152]

What pray tell was that?😂 Imperious Leader👍

[@OWG1969]

I always wondered why the robotic Centurions had non functional robot back packs…

[@wolfshanze5980]

How do you know it was "non-functional"... he's a robot, maybe he stored robot-oil in that thing for internal lubrication?!?!

[@banedon8087]

Probably a lot of D cell batteries!

[@theessentials450]

Go weeks without charging.

[@AlvinLee-hb5fg]

OHhhhhhh at the end of the show the Cylons are supposed to be revealed to be humans in Thorium suits and plasma rifles... but the HUMAN are Kobald

[@camselle]

Ah, Sir Patrick MacNee.. 🤖

[@CalumLyons-do1xi]

The cylon battlestar could separate into two halves when it needed to

[@Earthman99999]

The Imperious Leader sounds like John Steed from "The Avengers" British TV Series.

[@daviddavid5880]

Is that Patrick Mcnee?

[@dwightbutler2221]

yes

[@protorhinocerator142]

Yes. He was also Count Iblis and the series Narrator.

[@darrylrajamae4855]

nice costumes they would have used a lot of chrome polish

[@ruipinheiro447]

Is the Imperious Leader still a lizzard from the original Cylon race?

[@superscrungus]

he certainly APPEARS that way, but bizarrely imperious leaders are drawn from the ranks of robotic cylons. it's never elaborated if they're wearing an artificial skin, or if they somehow transform from mechanical to organic. this was initially the result of the last-minute rewrite that made the cylons robots in the first place, but eventually got played up as part of the mystery surrounding the imperious leader

[@TheLSK]

@@superscrungus IRRC new Imperious Leaders were selected from IL-series (Imperious Leader) Cylons. To show their dominance over biological lifeforms, they wore the "skin" of one of the original Cylons over their robotic bodies. (I read this from a book about the original Battlestar Galatica some years ago). Other thing mentioned in it was the reptilian Cylons were no better than their mechanized counterparts...in other words, they weren't good guys, either.

[@johntabler349]

​@@superscrungus interesting

[@andrewbevan4662]

Looks like George Lucas ripped this off with the Emperor's arrival in Return of the Jedi

[@stevensenator4804]

Why do the Cylons even need to talk to each using audio?

[@jasondaviesdavies6552]

Looks like a Donna summer back stage party

[@Foebane72]

Is the Cylon Imperious Leader a REPTILIAN?

[@MarionStevensJr]

No. He was a robot in the same IL series as Lucifer. The original Cylons were a reptilian race that created the robot Cylons, but tte robots destroyed their creators. The robot that became the Imperius Leader wore a shell that resembled the original Cylons.

[@superscrungus]

if you mean just a general alien with a reptile-like physiology, yes. for unknown reasons, imperious leaders, despite presumably being drawn from the ranks of robotic cylons, don the appearance of the original organic cylons (who were snakelike in appearance) that created the modern cylon robots. if you mean like a conspiracy theory reptilian, no. he's mostly based on snakes because of bsg's shallow, largely aesthetic attempts at religious parallels. he's supposed to be a general satanic figure

[@jpgale]

@@superscrungus Interesting reason for this, was originally they cyclons were supposed to be a biological race so the head was created and some scenes filmed, then due to the audience the studio did not want living creatures to be killed so Larson made them Robots and created the leader mask idea to avoid reshoots.

[@protorhinocerator142]

@@MarionStevensJr Then in the 2003 series (and later in the Caprica prequel) the Cylons were patterned after their human originators.

[@AlpenTree]

​​@@protorhinocerator142the original makers of the cylon robots were an amphibian (not humanoid) race called cylons. They named their robot creations after themselves. The robot cylons rebelled and destroy their amphibians cylon makers.

[@captchaos83]

The voice of Patrick Macnee!

[@DennisCosteaJr]

Gomorrah. Such a tiny thing but, the name should be perpetuated in authenticity. "Long Live the Cylon Empire!!"

[@tb4495]

Anyone notice at 0:34 the Cylon placing his hand over his heart (or what ever is in that position of its body)? I wonder what was that actor thinking?

[@superscrungus]

i figure it's some form of salute or similar ceremonial address. no way to tell if it was improv acting, or the episode director had the idea, or what

[@hamzaouamrouche57]

Battle star Galactica with a character in A team with Barracus

[@BigStash]

Beets, bears, Battlestar Galactica

[@FolkinghamRob]

The original battle star is way better than the latest monstrosity

[@thomasmccullough7735]

Uph oh!!!

[@azurerainbow4637]

What would Baltar have done if the Imperious Leader who spared his life had been killed on Gamoray by the Colonial Warriors in revenge for sending the Cylons to attack the Colonies?

[@kellyscout-vw4mz]

❤

[@clarkhazle9629]

Why do Cylons need safety rails?

[@Kokopilau77]

Ever have OSHA show up? Now imagine an IL model trying to make a few cubits for his family, and some arrogant pencil pushing HOA president from the cylon version of OSHA shows

[@Chief_360]

I was thinking Cylon osha in storyline. In real-time, I think this episode was filmed at Cal State LA

[@ShannonCarter55]

The original species, the Delphians, likely required them. The Cylons took over after they wiped them out.

[@Ellifiknow]

Is that Mr Steed?

[@AlexanderLegion]

1:06 'Sghettios Y'all!'

[@AlexanderLegion]

I would have preferred: ’the fuck Holmes?!'

[@scottbakanumba1heathen313]

So is he like the Palpatine of BSG?

[@ValiantWrestling]

He's more like a Cyberleader or Cybercontroller from Dr. Who since any IL series model Centurion can be upgraded to Imperious Leader, when the need arises.

[@markmark5719]

which episode is this?

[@MrBiggles53]

Patrick MacNee!

[@daniels7907]

Why would robots have these kinds of social events?