I took some screen shots from last night’s episode, just to look at. sorry they’re so large. Click for bigger.
The last is my favorite. The return of the original Raider! It looks like in the circle there are both new and Old Raiders. I wonder what that means.
In the first, if you look middle right-hand-side, you can see a Baseship for size reference. It looks like the baseship itself could fit in that entrance no problem.
So very cool. Thanks, sircastor!
Maybe it’s just because the design of the Colony is so much for organic and alien than anything we’ve seen before, but it kind of looks…I dunno, more CGI than what I’m used to seeing on BSG. Everything else seems grounded in a reality we can relate to, even if it is about ships flying through space. But this thing just looks weird, like something you’d see in a video game.
Not that that’s bad, but it feels just a bit out of place. Am I making sense here?
That first pic almost reminds me of a Shadow ship from Babylon 5. Creepy.
Holy craaaap! I had to look hard, but I just saw the Baseship in the first pic! That Colony sucker’s huge! (I’ll restate from my thoughts on another thread that for some reason it reminds me of the squid from Watchmen.)
Sure is HUGE. Where the frak has it been? What the frak is it - really? The Cylon “home world”?
Yeah, I thought it was a little more obviously CG than I’m used to with BSG. Part of it’s the purple nebula in the background, I think. But not all.
I also see the B5 similarities too…
Without being crass (yeah right – like somebody’s not gonna make some smarta$$ comment on this forum :)):
The trippy thing is that the design of the Colony reminded me of female genitalia… the exterior pic has semi-circles around the entrance that look labial… the pic of the interior tunnel looks like the birth canal. Then the ship descends through a small hole kinda like a cervix.
Which is all symbolically fitting – first, it’s the birthplace of the S7; second, Hera is traveling down this big-a$$ vagina down through to the Colony’s uterus, where Cavil awaits… she being the seed of the new Cylon race.
Just didn’t expect it to be so blatant (or was that just to me? :rolleyes:)
HAHAHAHA brilliant, and very true.
i want to know y the cylon raiders look so much bigger than the raptor.
i wonder if its design will come up in the rdm podcast.
Almost any organic sci-fi ship design ends up looking sexual somehow. The Alien designs by H.R.Giger were supposed to suggest both male and female parts, or so I’ve heard.
If this thing can FTL jump, that’s gotta be one heck of a spatial distortion when it goes. Judging by the comparison to the Basestar, it’s gotta be the size of a small moon. Except for, “That’s no moon.”
I just thought they’d somehow gotten Georgia O’Keefe to do the design. 
feminine, too. Watchmen, again.
I don’t think this is the Colony–Cavil doesn’t know where it is, but I’ll buy Cylon Homeworld.
I forget where, but I think it was explained that Cavil moved it a number of months before. 'Course, they didn’t actually come out and say it was the Colony, so maybe they’re frakin with us.
I hope we see another angle of that thing cause I wanna know whats the deal with that crown and those things behind it. Do they ring around the whole colony?
Well in the show they did say the colony is where they went after the first war.
So im thinking Colony = Homeworld
After seeing the old school cylon raider in this scene the thought that our unknown force in the game is our old cylons who refuses to go with ellen and the company’s plan. they’ve had their own “natural” evolution and they have their own end-game And they’re working with Cavil.
That’s an interesting thought. The Guardians’ basestar was destroyed, with all of the Centurians on board. It’s conceivable that some of the fighters survived and joined up with the Humaniod Cylons, with Cavil keeping it all secret. Or their just some old, decommissioned raiders being kept as museum pieces.
I just assumed that there were still Larry models in the colony being used for various sundry purposes (as Six said in the miniseries, “those models still have their uses.”).
I thought she meant the general Centurion line, not those specific models.
Anyway, the old Raiders actually carry individuals, so they might be using them as a light transport (vs. the Heavy Raiders.)
I assumed that she was refering to the more advanced Centurions in the sense that they are simply supped up versions of the old. But your interpretation isn’t without merit.
None of this explains why the original Centurions allowed their successors to be inhibited, but I’m not expected an explanation in these last few episodes.
Any fans of Babylon 5 see those long projections and think Vorlon ship? Well, if you didn’t it was probably because you were thinking Giger’s design from the Aliens movies. I think both could apply.
Does there (almost) always have to be a “mother ship”? Man - oh - man.
I was actually thinking Shadow ship.
Gods, those ships are creepy. But then, I’m an arachnophobe.
This is why I’m a little bothered by the Colony design. It just looks too much like something from another show.