From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   "Steve Silverwood"  wrote in message   
   news:ams2l6da8md0cdvtpm86hhnrn2cge498vo@4ax.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.   
      
           Kinda like a Terminator.   
      
   >   
   >>    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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