GALACTICA

The new Battlestar Galactica has turned into complete crap. Instead of a science fiction show about humans fleeing for their lives from evil robots, BSG has now turned into week after week of tortured plots which make no sense. Each episodes only purpose seems to be to make some leftist point about the United States' role in the world.

First of all, let's establish the fact that the humans represent the United States. The government of the humans is very similar to U.S. republican democracy, with a president, and a legislateive branch equally represented by each of the 12 colonies, kind of like the U.S. Senate. Yes, today we have fifty states represented in the Senate, but when the country started there were only 13 states, which is the exact same number as the 13 colonies of BSG if we include the lost colony of earth. All the little glimpses we get of the original Colonial government reminds of of the huge U.S. federal bureacracy but only bigger. The show is written by Americans for a primarily American audience, and the people in the show behave much like people living in 21st century America (at least they used to before season three).

The third season begins with humans in the role of suicide bombers. Ron Moore is telling us that the sucicide bombers in the Middle East are just doing what they have to do to defend themselves from the evil United States, and since the humans represent the U.S., the point is that you and I would become suicide bombers of things were reversed. Ignoring the fact that the Cylonss destroyed tens of billions of humans leaving behind only fifty thousand fleeing for their lives. Ignoring the fact the suicide bombing made absolutely no sense in the context of the plot.

Then we have a Star Chamber episode, the message being that humans are bad people. Chief Tyrol, a member of the Star Chamber, seems to ignore the fact the he himself was almost executed for worse crimes. He did kill a human to protect the "life" of a Cylon.

Then we have an episode in which the humans could have destroyed all of the Cylons, but Helo shows them how morally wrong this idea is by wrecking the plan, and then Adama and Roslyn come to their senses and agree that it's wrong to do back to the enemy what the enemy did first. The only moral response to genocide is to flee and hope that the enemy will run out of fuel or something. Because the Cylons have given the humans no indication to think that they will ever accept free humans living in the same galaxy as them.

You have to ask yourself if this is how real people would behave under these circumstance. Where is the anger at what happened? Why doesn't anyone want revenge? Well... some people wanted revenge against Gaeta, but when it comes to revenge against the evil robots, oh no, can't have that.

And finally we have the most recent episode, which is apparently an excuse to tell us once again how bad the humans are, because the humans provoked the Cylons and were planning how to make war on them. It's only natural the the Cylons pre-emptively attacked first. Ignoring the fact that they Cylons never even tried to have peaceful relations. They could have sent some robots to the meeting place each year to say "hey, we're nice guys, maybe we can be friends."

So the Cylons had Bulldog in prison, but they let him esacpe. Because they knew he would figure out how to fly a Cylon Raider, find the Galactica, and then kill Adama because they knew Adama felt so guilty about everything that he wouldn't take any sensible precautions, like having some guards around or keeping potentially compromised POWs under observation for a few weeks before they have the run of the only ship defending the humans. Huh? If Galactica is so easy to find, why don't they just jump in with the whole Cylon fleet and destroy the humans once and for all?

In comments, someone keeps suggesting how this season has nuances and subleties. Sorry, but there's nothing subtle here. The writers are bludgeoning us each week with some political point. When the show first started, you acutally felt the fear of the humans as they fled for their lives. But now, there's no fear, just a bunch of people who don't feel like they are worthy of living, and they they try to act as unworthy as possible.

God forbid that the writers give us a single example of people being nice to each other, but this season there is none of that. The TV show has been taken over by extreme leftists who believe that the United States is a bad country which doesn't deserve to exist, and they make this point week after week.

Humans (aka the United States) are BAD people. We broke the armistice first. We don't really deserve to live. Too bad the Cylons (aka Muslims) weren't successful killing us all off.

This show is becoming moronic.

The humans had a chance to defeat their enemy, but they refused to do it because it's somehow immoral to attack the enemy? Why don't the humans just set all their ships to self destruct and give up? At least that way they won't lead the enemy to Earth and cause another few billion innocent humans to die.

I think I'm gonna quit blogging about the new Galactica.

It takes a normal human being many months of hard work to go from fat to buff.

Lee Adama did it in a few days.

This can only be possible if he has alien DNA.

I apologize for the day delay in posting this. I had a date last night and was unable to watch the show and blog about it. No, I didn't tell her that I run a Battlestar Galactica blog. That would probably ruin my chances.

This was the best episode of the season, so far. No suicide bombers or star chambers.

Is Baltar a Cylon? That would explain why he's so good with computers. And his hallucinations seem an awful lot like the Cylon "projections."

The name "Athena" has come back. Interesting to see Ron Moore tying in some new elements from the original series. And of course Baltar is now aboard a Cylon ship and is actively helping them--just like the original Baltar.

Ron Moore is also bringing in some of the mystical themes from the old series. I wonder if the Ship of Lights will be making an appearance soon?

Unfortunately, based on the coming attractions, the show will be taking another turn for the worse. It looks like next week the humans will discover the disease that killed the Cylons and the possibility of using it to destroy the Cylon race. And then some people raise an objection to this sensible course of action. As if it's somehow immoral.

HELLO! THE CYLONS ARE MACHINES, OR ARTIFICAL LIFE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TO DESTROY HUMANITY. THEY MUST BE DESTROYED.

In the original series, if the humans discovered a way to destroy the "Enemy" (as the original Commander Adama would refer to them), there would not have been even the slightest shred of doubt that it was the right thing to do.

Thus again, we see the core difference between the original series and the reimagining. In the original series the humans were the good guys, and no one doubted that fact. In the reimagining, the humans are full of doubt that they even deserve to live. This is really pathetic, and demonstrates the left wing political philosophy of Ron Moore.