Posted on 03/17/2006 5:03:56 PM PST by nunya bidness
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I waited a week. You were right, the fleet needed to be taught a lesson.
BSG Rules.
I just can't believe we have to wait until October for more new episodes!
Anyone who claims that they aren't telling the story of America's war isn't watching.
BSG Rules.
I just can't believe we have to wait until October for more new episodes!
Anyone who claims that they aren't telling the story of America's war isn't watching.
I never miss it.
Nice essay. :)
I've never seen it and don't want to, but this was a well written piece.
Thanks. I'm really in to this show.
I'm an SF fan going way back but I've never seen this show. I just thought you wrote one fine post. You write like a pro.
The season finale was a fantastic study on the perils of short-sighted desires for "peace" in the face of a dangerous enemy. Through the election, a majority of the survivors elected a president who put all of their eggs in one basket and made them sitting ducks, by settling a planet where there would be a semblance of "normal life", but no way out if the Cylons returned -- which of course they eventually did. If they had stayed on the ships, life would be harder, but a lot safer -- they'd be able to fight effectively or run away (hyperjump) if they found themselves in trouble again, plus they'd have been able to continue their long-shot search for "Old Earth", providing a better hope for the future, albeit one with delayed grafication.
Now, however, the season has ended with the Cylons returning not to destroy mankind (they have been taken over by their own internal factions who want a different goal), but in order to "protect" mankind from itself, in an "overseer" role that looks exactly like totalitarianism. It's going to be an interesting third season next year, and will probably have a lot to say about "nanny states" and oppressive "do-goodism", while covering issues of personal freedom and insurrection.
I'll believe it if you hit the South Park ping list. Thanks again.
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Also, there's the Tyrol speech taken from Mario Savio:
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
When he made the speech the Cylons hadn't invaded yet so the machine must mean the Baltar presidency. I assume the workers were building a presidential palace. After all, a player like Baltar can't live forever on a stuffy ship.
The answer is simple: Cowardice is a punishable offense, and weakness is no defense.
Excellent, excellent!
I'm not so sure. I think the Lords are busy with their own problems and the fleet's diversion was entirely its own doing. Free will and all that.
My step father really loves this show but I have never got around to watching it. I guess I should. Is the first (and subsequent) season(s) available on DVD?
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