The Cylon baby is finally born, leading to some political decisions being made. Meanwhile, the Cylons on Caprica contemplate life and humans when they meet up with a certain human from a pre... Read allThe Cylon baby is finally born, leading to some political decisions being made. Meanwhile, the Cylons on Caprica contemplate life and humans when they meet up with a certain human from a previous episode. This story explores the Cylon world.The Cylon baby is finally born, leading to some political decisions being made. Meanwhile, the Cylons on Caprica contemplate life and humans when they meet up with a certain human from a previous episode. This story explores the Cylon world.
- Captain Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
- (credit only)
- Commander Lee 'Apollo' Adama
- (credit only)
- Jean Barolay
- (as Alisen Down)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRonald D. Moore told in the podcast commentary for "Downloaded" that they had started to develop an episode called "The Raid", where the humans infiltrated into a Cylon space station where a conference about how to solve the human problem was taking place. The Colonials had to get more information about the Earth. Caprica Six, who started having visions about Gaius Baltar, discovered them but finally let them go. This idea was dropped, but Ron Moore wanted to show the Cylon point of view and it was finally shown in "Downloaded". The return of Caprica Six, who died in the miniseries, and she having visions about Gaius was also kept from "The Raid".
- GoofsWhen Anders and his people are planning the attack on the Cylons, he says the Sharon Cylon told Kara that when Cylons download, they remember everything up until the moment they die. Kara and Sharon (the Cylon) only had this conversation 3 episodes ago in the holding cell constructed for Sharon, so there is no way that Kara could have told this information to Anders, who at this point is still on Caprica. Actually, the Kara and Sharon Cylon conversation of 3 episodes ago dealt with 2 new things that Kara learned from Sharon. 1 - with the destruction of the Resurrection ship, the Cylons were not about to enter into a mass raid, but continue hit and run tactics for now; 2 - Raiders resurrect. This second one was crucial to the show's plot - dealing with Scar, a Cylon Raider. Kara was surprised that "raiders resurrect the same way you do?" She already knew about the 'skin-job' resurrections as Anders said - Sharon Cylon told them on Caprica. Note that in a later show, Kara's line was changed in a 'previously on Battlestar Galactica' scene to "Cylons resurrect?", but it was "Raiders resurrect?" in the actual episode.
- Quotes
Doctor Gaius Baltar: What are you suggesting?
President Laura Roslin: I'm not suggesting anything Doctor. If I want to throw a baby out an airlock, I'll do it.
- ConnectionsReferences Blade Runner (1982)
- SoundtracksMain Title Theme
Written by Richard Gibbs
While the Cylons are synthetic humanoids, they still have much more in common with humanity - their enemy - than (some of them) would like.
We follow several story lines,: two Cylons, a Six - or,should I say, THE Six - the one who 'pretended to be human' to have Baltar give her the codes that would allow the Cylons to attack.
The other, is Sharon - an Eight, but, this one BELIEVED she was human, until her programming switched on, and she shot Commander Adama.
The Sharon has a hard time; she now knows that what she believed to be her life, was, a lie. Her memories - her loves... not real. She lives in 'her' Caprica apartment - listening to heavy metal (pun!) music, with this conflict she's feeling, growing.
The Six knew she was impersonating a human, she really DID fall for Baltar, but, she's finding that she's expected to 'conform,' to (Cylon) society, where she's looked on as a hero, but feels that she betrayed the (hu)man she loved.
When Six comes to Sharon's apartment, the turmoil Sharon's feeling, grows, with Sharon showing Six a picture - if her 'family.' she then.
When Six tries to say 'God loves you,' An enraged Sharon pulls a picture out, of her Galactica crew and rages, and screams how she lived them - and, her love was real.
But, because she is a Cylon, she had that love - that reality - taken away, with her attempt on Adama's life.
She feels used. She's hurt, and, this hurt, and conflicting feelings within her, will grow, as the series progresses.
These two machines - woman - both are beginning to explore what 'individuality' means, and, how it can be displayed, in a conformist society.
On Galactica, another Eight, the one known as Sharon Agathon, is giving birth - to the human/Cylon hybrid.
As the pregnancy unfolds with difficulty, Dr. Cottle says to Sharon; 'I find it absolutely amazing. You people went to all the trouble to appear human, and didn't upgrade the plumbing.'
I don't like to recite the plot, I think it more important to let you know what the strings are, what the ever-entangling plots, are showing.
But, with DOWNLOADED, we get a very strong exploration, of what it means to be 'human,' and 'individual,' as it is clearer, that the 'machines,' have more in common with their enemy - humans, and vice versa.
- UNOhwen
- Oct 22, 2011
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1