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[rose_griffes]

Anyone remember why the cylons wanted to find Earth in season three? The Colonial fleet wanted a safe haven from the cylons, but why did the cylons want to go there? Wipe out the rest of the humans? (I don't think that was their motivation. But I don't remember any motivation ever being given.)

This is me frantically trying to come up with a gen female POV fic for the femgenficathon. Less than two weeks, ACK!

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[lyssie.livejournal.com]

No motive was ever given, as far as I know. I sort of fanwanked it as they were being led their by God, as it was some fulfillment of their destinies. Also, the thirteenth tribe were there, and perhaps there would be some sort of new start (New Caprica was an old start, after all).

Honestly, I'd always thought the Cylons wanted Earth way more than the fleet, if only to settle there as some sort of Promised Land.

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

The only explanation was some vagueness about wanting "a new beginning" and hijacking the humans' worldview some more. It was also never certain whether they would've killed everybody once they got there or tried to set up New Caprica 2.0 or what. (I fanwank that Six at the very least was still hoping for something like that.) The primary reason definitely seemed to be about getting a new home for themselves, not tracking down the rest of humanity.

I think they got very attracted to it for the spiritual reasons (and because the Cylons are fickle like crazy). I always thought it was cool when Cavil said it wouldn't matter if they found Earth now or in 500 years.

[helen-c.livejournal.com]

I've never been particularly interested in the Cylon side of things, and I find their philosophy/motivations obscure anyway. I always got the feeling that trying to find Earth had something to do with their religion, but I'm not sure any clear explanation was ever given...

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Meh. There is no reason. I chalk it up to their continued fascination with all things human and their desire to either wipe them out or interbreed them out of existence...

Anyway, it's not you, it's the show. (If that's any reassurance!)

[rap541.livejournal.com]

If I recall, it was never totally explained but the feeling seemed to be "so we can kill all humans".

Unfortunately why the Cylons do anything has NEVER been particularly well thought out.

I say it was "kill all humans" because honestly New Caprica would have been a great time to live and let live and the Cylons all seemed pretty miffed.

And lets just ignore how they were subjacating the survivors on Old Caprica in rape farms and essentially rebuilding the humans world for themselves complete with coffee bars. Yeah they had a real incentive to completely chase the humans. Yes, I am gripy because the Cylons were a LOT more interesting when we weren't treated to random bits of crazy that when put together make no sense at all. Oh, and HUB my ass. The fucking HUB that is the most important thing ever that SHaron "I am all about being on the human side!" Agathon never once mentioned during her many tea times with Bill Adama. The hub was pulled out of their ass because they needed something similar to, but different than a reserrection ship since they had already nonsensically explained the reserrection ship.

I love BSG but I am not going to praise the "added for shock value" plots of season three and four.

[ebuchala.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I really don't have anything beneficial to add here because the Cylons don't make a lot of sense to me. They seem to change their minds on every episode. But, I do have to say that I LOVE your icon--it's hilarious. And...I'm positive I have some of those Daleks are living in my house.

Don't mind rap--she's obviously bitter that the Cylons are soooo mystical there's no way we can fully understand them or their motives. And the Hub was quite important, it's just that tea time with Sharon and Adama was spent discussing the more important issue of whether the human race was really fit to survive and how the Cylons were obviously the ones to make a judgment call on that.