Battlestar Galactica

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I saw Razor last night. It was good, although the human experimentation REALLY gave me the creeps. Overall, I was pleased.

Okay, pakled, how should we read the allegory? The humans (our viewpoint characters) were the ones engaging in suicide bombings, while the occupying Cylons have the intolerant monotheistic religion. (The Colonials are polytheists, with an admixture of atheists like Admiral Adama and Dr. Baltar.)

The producers said later that the idea they were shooting for was more Vichy France than Iraq - unfortunately, everyone jumped right on the Iraq thing, urged on by right-wing bloggers eager to denounce yet another commie Hollywood liberal bleeding-heart pinko traitor...

The episode "Collaborators", with its kangaroo court executing any escapee they convicted of having collaborated with the Occupation, was definitely an echo of France, post-WWII.

Dr. Baltar did start off as an atheist, but later on he starts believing in the Cylon God.

I really like what I've seen so far but that's only a bit more than halfway through season 2 (the point where Gaius is trying to help the Cylon prisoner, a number Six (Trisha Helfer), and she inadvertently does Odama a favor by killing the Admiral).

Coming up is an episode entitled "Black Market". Skip it. It does nothing to advance the mytharc of the show, any character development is ignored for the rest of the series - heck, even the implications of a black market in the fleet never comes up again!

For that matter, when you hit season 3, go ahead and skip over "The Woman King" - unless you're turned on by shirtless Helo, in which case you should stand by your pause button...

I liked the Woman King episode, but didn't get turned on by shirtless Helo. Must've missed that part. Actually, I like it because you don't often get to see Helo in any way other than the guy who's married to a Cylon. One of the strongest out of the standalone episodes, along with the one with Tyrol calling a union strike.

Didn't like the Black Market episode though. Lee didn't really seem like the sorta fella who'd go to a prostitute, it seemed a bit out of character for him. Plus it was weird how suddenly he thought he was in love with her, when we'd never heard anything about her prior to the episode.

Battlestar Galactica ruined normal TV for me. No other shows seem great anymore, only good. Except Arrested Development. That show wins my "still good after BSG award".

Battlestar Galactica (the new series) is my favourite TV series ever, although Firefly might have taken that spot if it hadn't been (grrr!) cancelled so early. Never saw the original BSG, and from what I've heard of it, I don't want to. I'll take realism over campiness any day.

Same here. BSG is the tops for me. AD and The Office are my exceptions.



I just finished Firefly + Serenity last week. They're comparable because they're both Sci-Fi, but so very different. I loved Firefly because it was pretty much made by Sci-Fi geeks having fun, while BSG is more like the type of sci-fi that gets you in to other things like Firefly, if that makes sense.