Battlestar Galactica - Dean Stockwell/John Cavil Appreciation thread #2: Because he's a mean SOB...

**Violent Delights** · 11-16-2009, 04:51 PM

Welcome to the Dean Stockwell/John Cavil Appreciation thread

- Fans -
1. georgina31
2. crazy_diamond

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- About Dean -

From child star to veteran actor, Dean Stockwell's career spans some 60 years or more. He has featured in many films and tv shows. Many of us here will know him from Quantum Leap, and of course as Cavil in BSG. To learn more of his vast and varied career, click here.

- Reasons -
Because he was the most devious cylon
Because he had a plan

- Quotes -

(while the Final Five make preparations to download knowledge of Resurrection Technology to the Cylon Colony) "Not to rush you or anything, but you are keeping two entire civilizations waiting!"
(Series Finale 'Daybreak')

"You're toying with our survival. Look at yourselves. Look, there's millions of Twos who have that nose. Millions of Sixes possess that mouth. Eights share those breasts and Ones have this brain. We're mechanized copies. There's a reason the original programmers clearly felt that it's a mistake for us to contact the Final Five!"
(S4 E2 'Six of One')

"Let me point out that it doesn't matter if we find Earth in five days, or if we find Earth in five thousand years. We're machines. We'll still be around to savor the great miracle. So let them destroy the Eye, if indeed they have it. We have to take advantage of the situation and take down Galactica once and for all... or we could stand here and do nothing."
(S3 E11 'The Eye of Jupiter')

"Oh, maybe because I'm a Cylon and I've never seen you at any of the meetings."
(S2 E19 'Lay Down Your Burdens Part I')

"Delusional machines! What's the universe gonna come up with next?"
(S3 E1 'Occupation')

"Fine, fine. We don't kill Baltar. We round up the leaders of the insurgency and we execute them, publicly."
(S3 E1 'Occupation')

Brother Cavil:"In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova?"
Ellen Tigh:"No."
Brother Cavil: "No? Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air."
Ellen Tigh: "The five of us designed you to be as human as possible."
Brother Cavil: "I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine! And I can know much more! I can experience so much more. But I'm trapped in this absurd body! And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way!"
(S4 E15 'No Exit')

Brother Cavil: "Do you know how useless prayer is? Chanting, and singing, and mucking about with old half-remembered lines of bad poetry? And you know what it gets you? Exactly nothing."
Tyrol:"Are you sure that you're a priest?"
(S2 E19 'Lay Down Your Burdens Part I')

- Links -
Dean Stockwell Wiki page
IMDB page
all you need to know about the character Cavil

Previous Threads -
#1: Because he was the Number One Cylon

Future Titles

Because only the 'nicer' Cavil's wore hats
Cavil, Cunning and he knows it
Dr. Evil or should I say Reverend Eeevvviiiillllll