Battlestar Galactica messages

[Sam Gamgee]

Just wanted to start a discussion on some questions posed by the new season of BSG.

The last episode involving the appearance of a man who Adama betrayed seemed to suggest that the crossing of the armistice line by Adama caused the attack on the colonies. In modern warfare, is the momentary crossing of a armistice line enough to warrant all out war? Is this assumption a little naive? Maybe it expedited the cylon attack at best?

The previous episode involved the hand wringing and treason by Helo over the decision to inflict biological warfare against the cylons. Considering they wiped out the human race, I am not sure where the moral problem is. After all, they are little more than toasters. Man created them. Man can destroy them.

As far as the opening episode I am not sure it as advocating suicide bombing. I think what it showed was a miserable Saul was willing to selfishly ask other men to throw away their lives to appease his bitterness. Technically it was an attack on a police force, so technically not terrorism. The immorality was the choice to take one's own life.

Just some thoughts.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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[Shimmer128]

You know, i hate to be the one to burst your bubble....but it's Hollywood, they do whatever suits their script and THEN they make the circumstances fit. They didn't study Sun Tzu or attend War College or anything.
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[Not now, Not ever!]

Only slightly on point, does anyone know where a DVD of the first episode of BBSG, that aired in the '70's can be obtained?

I am looking for a source of the image that confronted them when the first came up on the bridge and looked out the front window.

[skyeblue]

Interesting chat between Laura and Bill when he hands his resignation letter to the President: Laura speculates the Admiralty may have set Adama up in order to provoke a war they wanted....where have I heard this before? Laura was quick to follow up this statement by channeling Susan Sontag in order to impress Bill with this gem: We did a thousand things good and bad everyday for 40 years to pave the way for this attack. Call me crazy, I still blame the Cylons for this attack - NOT the humans.

[Sam Gamgee]

Yes, it is an interesting twist that the civilian is the hawk, while the general is the dove. I just loved it when Laura flushed out the cylon through the air lock last season.

I missed the episode about the kangaroo trials over the "traitors". Did Felix Gaeta get killed?

[Charles Martel]

I missed the episode about the kangaroo trials over the "traitors". Did Felix Gaeta get killed?

No, Gaeta was able to make it known that he was the source of information from "inside". Not before the writers milked the suspense and drama by having a majority vote to toss him out a launch tube, though. The vote, of course, was rescinded.

[Sam Gamgee]

Thanks for the update.