GALACTICA

I watched this movie on the Sci Fi channel this weekend. While I thought the acting was pretty mediocre, and most of the characters were stereotypes plucked from other science fiction shows, I thought there were some interesting parallels between the movie and what’s going on in the world today.

Science fiction usually falls into two political categories: left wing and right wing. The primary difference is that in left wing science fiction, the humans are bad and the aliens are good. In right wing science fiction, the aliens are bad.

The original Battlestar Galactica squarely fell into the right wing category, with the Cylons representing the Soviet Union. Bloodsuckers was also a right wing movie, and the vampires seemed a lot like Islamic fundamentalists.

Like the Islamic extremists, the vampires were dangerous in small groups but unable to get together and form an army. Sounds like the Middle East. The Israelis have been able to beat the armies of Islamic nations over and over again even though they are outnumbered population wise by a huge margin. But in small groups, the Muslims are able to wreak havoc.

In Bloodsuckers, there was this group of left wing humans who blamed humanity for the problems with vampires. They said the humans were imperialists who had no business exploring and colonizing the universe. This sounds like the left wing in the West who blame the West for Islamic terrorism. If only we were nicer and more sensitive to the poor Muslims.

But the left wing humans were proved wrong in the end when their vampire “friends” turned on them. In a hilarious mockery of the tendency for present day leftists to be vegetarians, the vampire spit out the blood of the left wing humans and muttered “vegetarian.”