Friday night TV
Posted by Brian July 22, 2005
David and I have really been enjoying the SciFi Channel’s new version of Battlestar Galactica. In this “reimagining” of the old show, the Cylons (robots created by humans) no longer look like robots, and have infiltrated human society. In the first season, the Cylons destroyed all twelve of the humans’ colonized planets. The Battlestar ship Galactica leads the fleet which carries the remnants (about 42,000) of the human race.
The show gets weird sometimes, but mostly it’s pretty compelling - more about the human (and robot) drama than just space fights, though there’s plenty of that, too.
Here is an article discussing the surprising amout of religious themes explored in the series.
The second episode of the second season is tonight. We’ll be watching!
Oh! Oh! I LOVE BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!
I, too, am surprised by the sincerity of the religious themes of the show. In the first season, when they first started exploring those themes, I was just waiting for them to be ironic about it. But they actually meant us to take it seriously! There was one episode in which Number Six frames Gaius in order to convince him there is a God, and he ACTUALLY ENDED UP PRAYING SINCERELY. Unbelieveable!
Anyway, that show is by far my favorite of the . . . uh, I guess four shows I actually watch on TV. (Come to think of it, two of those shows are reruns of other sci-fi shows . . . and the fourth is Stargate Atlantis . . . I really am a geek.)