1970's Battlestar Galactica Cylons - Were they just over weight Imperial Stormtroopers?

Ok for those who don't know, Cylons are the robots from 'Battlestar Galactica' who rule the Galaxy and have caused Genocide to humans except for a rag-tag group of ships searching out the planet Earth. Which according to legend has it may be home to more humans. Thus, they can lead the Cylons there and destroy them also.Hopefully I don't have to explain what Imperial Stormtroopers are.
Growing up as a boy in the 70's, you either played with your Star Wars action figures or you dressed up in your mother's clothing and tried on her make-up...Not that there is anything wrong with that of course! Anyways, I was a huge Star Wars fan with all the figures, posters, ect. My favorites were always the Stormtroopers. They were just so bad ass in their white armor walking around with everyone fearing them. When I dressed up as a Stormtrooper for Halloween, I walked around like I was as bad as they were and ready to take on anyone who crossed my path. That was until I had an accident in my pants and ran to my mother crying. Her advice to me that day will stay with me forever. She said, "Son, you know I love you but you are 17 years old and need to stop crapping in your pants."
Over the years I have heard many compare the Star Wars Stormtrooper to the Battlestar Galactica Cylon. One complaint I often hear is that BG ripped off Star Wars. There were similarities but I disagree. Of course there are going to be similarities. This is how we envisioned space adventurers of the future in the 70's. It went from silver jump suits and little green men in the 50's to feathered hair and testicle showing tights in the 70's.
Even though I have a special place in my heart for the Stormtrooper, I believe we can all still be friends. The Cylons were very mean, nasty and bad ass. They were scary dudes with those silver, super shiny helmets of theirs. How'd they manage to keep them so polished all of the time? I also remember them looking kind of fat and round also. The helmet design was incredibly well done but the body design lacked muscle tone. Who cares, right. We had Star Wars in the theatres and Battlestar Galactica on the TV. Those were some good times.

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