GALACTICA

Ronald Moore once again manages to pervert the storyline of the original series.

Ever fond of gender benders, he makes Admiral Cain a woman. And of course, the new Cain is a very bad and evil woman, unlike Admiral Cain from the old series who, although misguided, we still liked him and in the end he redeemed himself.

In the old series, it was apparently very common for children to server under their parents, because Cain daughter Sheba seemed to have the same rank on the Pegasus as Apollo had on the Galactica. But in the new series, Cain looks down on this relationship. But I have to give Cain’s viewpoint, I don’t understand how Adama was able to get away with rebellion and pointing a gun at Colonel Tigh’s head. Or am I the only person who still remembers that?

In the original series, Commander Adama, a member of the Council of Twelve, outranked Admiral Cain, but in the new series, it’s Adama who is outranked.

But is Adama truly outranked? In the United States, the President is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces. If the government of the fleet is in any way similar, Laura Roslyn can simply promote Adama to a rank higher than Cain’s. Why doesn’t she?

However, I think that Cain’s crew had the right idea regarding the Cylons. Hello! They destroyed all of humanity. Whether machines or biological creatures, they were genetically engineered to kill us. Any torture inflicted on them for the purpose of getting information out of them is entirely warranted. There is absolutely no excuse for Tyrol and Helo killing a human in order to save a Cylon from being tortured.

On the other hand, Sharon the Cylon seems to be helping the humans, so it’s a very bad idea to ruin a source of good information. But then it’s really hard to understand whether or not the “help” is part of the nefarious Cylon “plan.”