Well, it took me a while to re-watching this one again. I’ll
get into why down later, though. Battlestar Galactica: The Plan was released on
DVD during October of 2009. I didn’t end up seeing the movie until it aired on
Syfy in early 2010. I haven’t done much research in this, but it was shot
alongside the final episodes of the show. The idea for the movie was to show
what the Cylons’ plan was for humanity. That shouldn’t have been too complex to
know: they wanted to blow them up! Still, the creators wanted to add a little
more to the mythos. They even got Edward James Olmos to direct the 112 minute
feature.
The movie revolves around Cylon #1 or “Cavil” (Dean Stockwell)
as he and the rest of the Cylons plan humanity’s destruction. Cavil also has
plans for the Final Five Cylon models (the ones that helped the Caprican Cylons
with resurrection) to see what they’ve done to humanity. The fall happens but
plans change when it’s revealed that a group of humans (the BSG and the fleet)
are still alive. We then see Cavil and the other Cylons scheme and plan to take
down the fleet over the first two seasons. Meanwhile, on Caprica, a Cavil model
tries to befriend Anders, one of the Final Five. It all ends pretty much where
“Lay Down Your Burdens” ends with the two Cavils being shot out into space.
