GALACTICA

It has been a long time since I posted, but I'm back. I watched the webisodes. (The quality, although better than the average YouTube video, still sucks.)

The webisodes are clearly setting us up to view the humans as Muslim terrorists. They hide their weapons in the religious temple. Sounds like the Muslims who always use Mosques as military bases because they know that the U.S., being the good guys, will never bomb the Mosques. The Cylons, on the other hand, don't seem to have any problems with this, they attack the temple and kill ten humans.

But Colonel Tigh is actually happy about this outcome. The violence is helping to rally the people around the cause of the resistance. Once again, there's another parallel with the Middle East. They say that whenever we kill a bunch of terrorists, it only causes more to join their cause. Israel's invasion of Lebanon was said to actually help Hamas because now they can recruit more people.

Before letting this make you feel sympathy for the tactics of Muslims in the Middle East, one should note the two major differences between Cylons and the United States.

(1) Cylons massacred billions of people, leaving only fifty thousand left alive. The United States never exterminated 99% of Muslims.

(2) Cylons are machines and not humans (except for the human Cylons who aren't really machines, but rather life forms genetically engineered to be like humans except they are genetically programmed to help the machines destroy all of humanity or whatever the machines' hidden "plan" is).