GALACTICA

So the whole Fleet is a big happy family again.

Are we any closer to figuring out whether Number Six that Baltar sees is really a Cylon or just a figment of his own non-Cylon schizophrenia? I think that Number Six is real, because she did appear in that episode where everyone else could see her. I think there is some sort of Cylon devices aboard the Fleet that causes Baltar to see her. The devices must have been on Kobol too.

And speaking of Kobol, this looks like it will be the end of the Kobol arc. Now they have to find Earth. Given the way that the Kobol story was dragged out for several episodes, Ronald Moore will probably make long storylines out of the Ship of Lights and the Pegasus.

Cylons are obviously pretty stupid. Sharon the Cylon somehow thinks that her clone was entitled to a “trial” despite the fact that her fellow Cylons murdered billions of people and nearly wiped out humanity except for the 48,000+ survivors aboard the Fleet.

Critics complained about the original Battlestar Galactica series because none of the space physics made any sense. They fixed those problems in the new series, with plausible explanations for how the fleet gets from place to place.

The problem with the new series is that the Cylons who look like humans storyline makes no sense! In “The Farm,” we learn that they Cylons are trying to use captured humans to make babies. Why? If the Cylons are able to create life that is so identical to humans they it’s impossible to tell them apart, even with all of Galactica’s advanced medical equipment, why can’t they have babies? It just doesn’t make any sense.

Meanwhile, as someone who left a comment here predicted, Roslin left for Kobol and the Galactica will be forced to follow her because 24 ships went along with her. There are two possibilities here. Either she will turn out to be right, or she will turn out to be wrong.

I’m sure hoping that she turns out to be wrong and the trip to Kobol is a big dead end. Because I really can’t stand her. And I really like Commander Adama who is the coolest space captain ever, even more so than Commander Adama from the original Battlestar Galactica.

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And apologies for not writing about last week’s episode, “Resistance.” I loved the scene where Baltar got Sharon to tell him how many Cylons are embedded with the fleet by injecting Chief Tyrol with poison and withholding the antidote until he spoke up.

Did Baltar really want to know? Or was he just curious to see if Sharon really loved the Chief?

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.”