From: steve.silverwood@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 07:39:09 -0500, "David Milligan"   
    wrote:   
      
   >        Last year I got the BSG box set with the Cylon "action figure" (but   
   >it doesn't do anything except stand next to my computer monitor and hold a   
   >rubber band with an out-stretched hand).   
      
   Cool.  I bought them as they came out, so I didn't need the box set   
   for the entire series.  Didn't know I was missing out on a cool desk   
   toy or I might have waited. :)   
      
   >    And the more I looked at it the more I realized how poorly designed   
   >Cylons are. First of all the hip and knee joints are completely exposed -   
   >one well-placed shot and they go down like a sack of wheat. But the ankles,   
   >shoulders and to some extent, the elbows, are protected. But the neck is   
   >also too exposed - nothing a well-placed Adamantium  ascot couldn't protect.   
      
   The neck isn't ALL that exposed, but it IS somewhat vulnerable.  I   
   remember in the show that any centurion not taken out with an   
   explosive round to the head was still partially combat effective.   
   You'd have to shoot off both arms and both legs to put it down but   
   still have it "aware" of what's going on around it.  The only true   
   KILL shot is right into the brain pan.   
      
   >    And why such long fingers? It's not like they have to reach into   
   >crevasses (or their noses) to dig stuff out.   
      
   I thought the centurions were the workhorses of the Cylons -- not just   
   combat soldiers but in other tasks as well.   
      
   -- //Steve//   
      
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