I don’t care that Battlestar Galactica is over; this is still relevant to our (my) interests.
I am in love with this wom—err, cylon. “I’m motherfrakkin’ Boomer, bitch! Pop, pop!”
Battlestar Galactica was recently invited to the United Nations for a panel discussion on parallels between the motifs of their science fiction television show and real world issues we face today. It featured a guest of 100 New York high schoolers as well. The Chicago Tribune recounts the discussions that took place at the United Nations.
“We are all entitled to a social and international order in which all of the rights and freedoms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized, regardless of race, sex, language or religion,” Mokhiber. Linking the quest for basic human rights to the “Battlestar” characters’ search for Earth, he said, “I would suggest that this is the mythical Earth for which we are all searching.”
It’s a bit creepy, but also very telling, how this seemingly dream mash-up of BSG and the U.N. makes perfect sense. A convergence of the awesomeness that is Battlestar and real life?
Please watch the two hour panel discussion here (realplayer required). Edward James Olmos even yells out ‘So say we all!’ to the audience. Bizarro.
i09 rants on last week’s installment of Battlestar Galactica:
What this means is that the destruction of the colonies, the cylon slave uprising, and the whole cylon vendetta against the humans, is basically the result of an atheist son being pissed at the way his religious mother imposed her beliefs on him. We’ve gone from justifying the cylon’s bloody war with a (somewhat understandable) quest for vengeance to justifying it by saying it was all the result of a sadistic, power-hungry mama’s boy mindwiping everybody and turning them into his war puppets.
I disagree with their review of the episode. I quite like the rapid turn of events in the final remaining episodes of the series. It’s unexpected yet fleshed out in a way that seems parallel to the original motifs of the show. There are power struggles on every level, from the internal conflicts of the main Battlestar Galactica ship, to the larger conflicts between humans and cylons, and now to newly discovered struggles within races the audience was not privy to until now. While it seems melodramatic, the theme of history repeating itself resonates strongly with the struggle between Cavil and Ellen. The concept of perfection, free will, and flaws all play to inevitable conflict that drives these continuing massacres and planetary wars.
What I hope will be unraveled by Moore is the attempt to find a resolution that can guide them away from what seems to be a fated demise.
Frak
I’ve been busy with a new semi-regular job, releasing my first self-published book, figuring out how to buy a suit jacket that fits me (and acquiring it before the third of April), and preparing for a week-long trip to Chicago. I have, however, been using any downtime to re-watch the first season of Battlestar Galactica. Grace Park is 35 years old; can you believe that? Frak.