Out Of This World: 'Battlestar Galactica' Launches The Iraq War Into Outer Space

NY Post ^ | October 22 2006 | STEPHEN LYNCH

[Perdogg]

Kara Thrace looks like Macaulay Culkin.

[LongElegantLegs]

"The show always takes on issues that aren't politically acceptable. It's a heavy weight to carry around sometimes."

The weight of the world...

[DoughtyOne]

This show is interesting. It's also frustrating. Why is it that roles are constantly converted to women when the original was a man? Starbuck. Flicka will be out soon. In that movie, the lead role for the child is changed to a young girl.

[FreedomNeocon]

What a crock...

The entire premise of this article counts on us, the USA, being the equivalent of the Cylons which exterminated all by 50k of the human race and now are barely tolerating the existence of the rest.

Then they talk about the 'reaction' of the humans and how far they are willing to go to get away (ie suicide bombs) like its some kind of good analogy, an equivalent situation, which is is FAR FROM.

I find this to me a more common dem tactic lately... lead with a 'low stamina' but high intensity story, and quickly follow with a 'high stamina' but more accurate story later.

They did it with the NSA an Foley, and with Allen and the "he is a j00000!" story

[vbmoneyspender]

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"

[mountn man]

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.

[Born to Conserve]

The human 'resistance' fighters are called "insurgents".
The human 'resistance' uses suicide bombers.

Clearly the US is represented by the Cylons and the Humans, the good guys, represent the moslems.

Totally anti American and anti West.

[gaijin]

Yeah...I saw Flicka and the restless, horse-loving youth is a girl.

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.

[Company Man]

IIRC, Flicka had a female charcter lead; you may be thinking of 'Fury', a similar tv show from that same time frame.

[KevinDavis]

Not this crap again...

[Rastus]

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTc5ZTFlMTE2ZmM5ZWI4NDIxYzIwMTYxMWMzZjE1NmE=

[bobwoodard]

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.

[Wormwood]

Good science fiction explores contemporary issues from a viewpoint removed from present circumstances.

Battlestar Galactica is very good science fiction.

[Hawk1976]

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.

[catholicfreeper]

Thats true. I have liked the show a great deal. I find the whole religious undertones of it pretty fascinating also.

[antiRepublicrat]

Clearly the US is represented by the Cylons and the Humans, the good guys, represent the moslems.

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.

[corkoman]

I am not so sure about projecting the latest BSG series onto current Iraq situation.

They did a frakking great job with Friday night's episode. Best story, battle simulation, and CGI of anything else out there.