Posted on 10/22/2006 7:46:05 PM PDT by jmc1969
THE best show on television about Iraq takes place hundreds of light years away, with starships, alien worlds and robots that look like humans.
It's "Battlestar Galactica," which has managed through science fiction to do what no other drama does - provide a primetime allegory for terrorism, occupation and religious conflict.
In the opening episodes of the show's third season, the last survivors of humanity revolt against the Cylons, robots that hope to "tame" the polytheistic homo sapiens by teaching them about a one true God. The occupation turns ugly, people are tortured, and in the end, humans turn to suicide bombings as a method of resistance.
"It was really hard for a lot of people to understand," says Katee Sackhoff, who plays the tough, tomboyish military officer Kara "Starbuck" Thrace. "The show always takes on issues that aren't politically acceptable. It's a heavy weight to carry around sometimes."
"By the time it went through the network and rewrites, it was different," she says. "It was so close to [Abu Ghraib], they said, 'we can't have the hero character doing all these things.'"
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Kara Thrace looks like Macaulay Culkin.
The weight of the world...
But KevinDavis told me BSG couldn't be about the Iraq War because there wasn't any Cylon who looked like President Bush in a jumpsuit with a patch on his shoulder saying "Mission Accomplished"
I enjoyed the original BSG. It was alot more adventuresome. This one maybe more "realistic" but its way to dark for me. Its no fun.
It's similar to the reversal in The Sum of All Fears, where the bad guys, instead of being muslims, are crazy blonde white guy white-supremacists.
It's totally nuts.
IIRC, Flicka had a female charcter lead; you may be thinking of 'Fury', a similar tv show from that same time frame.
I think they just enjoy switching things around (maybe based on the POV that gives them the richest plot line??). When BDG first came out the Humans were perceived as the West and the Cylons were preceived as the Islamic Extremists.
Battlestar Galactica is very good science fiction.
It's a lot more convuluted than they make it seem.
The cylons initiated and attack that killed all but an unknown very small amount of survivors. There may be other convoys, it has been alluded to. They also marched into New Caprica like the Nazi's in Paris. Then they can't seem to recall whether they are there to formulate a new path of coexistance or there to "convert" through initmidation and the use of force.
The human that was the suicide bomber was determined to kill as many as he could after the cylons killed his wife. The resistance leader only gave him the way, citing a suicide mission is a suicide mission, whether you are using a bomb belt or a Raptor doesn't matter. The humans seemed more than willing to cause suffering.
I could turn what these people think they are saying on it's head. It seems a lot more like how I would behave if the "ROP" tried to take over here.
Thats true. I have liked the show a great deal. I find the whole religious undertones of it pretty fascinating also.
I guess you didn't see the part where the insurgents (including the former president) condemned the suicide bombings, which were promoted by a man with a proven lack of judgement.
They did a frakking great job with Friday night's episode. Best story, battle simulation, and CGI of anything else out there.
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