Battlestar Galactica's Last Days 799
bowman9991 writes "If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back? If someone pointed a gun at your head and threatened to pull the trigger if you refused to sign a document you knew would lead to a hundred deaths (and you signed!), would that make you ultimately responsible? Does superior technology give you the moral right to impose your will on a technologically inferior culture? You wouldn't expect a mainstream television show to tackle such philosophically loaded questions, certainly not a show based on cheesy science fiction from the '70s, but if you've watched Battlestar Galactica since it was re-imagined in 2003, there has been no escape. The final fourth season is nearly over, and when the final episode airs, television will never be the same again. SFFMedia illustrates how Battlestar Galactica exposes the moral dilemmas, outrages, and questionable believes of the present as effectively (but more entertainingly) than any documentary or news program. It's not hard to see parallels in the CIA and US military's use of interrogation techniques in Bush's War on Terror, the effects of labeling one race as 'the enemy,' the crackdown on free speech, or the use of suicide bombers in Iraq."
First Post! (Score:5, Funny)
My superior technology gives me the moral right to impose my will on a technologically inferior culture called Slashdot!
I know the ending (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Battlestar analogies (Score:5, Funny)
If my country were invaded and occupied by a foreign power, I would ensure that I obey the cease-fires and give peace a chance, and not hide like a coward amongst my own women and children as I target the enemy's women and children.
Collaborator.
Re:First Post! (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like Taco's created yet another account...
Re:Oh come on. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, you are certainly entitled to your believes.
Another dilemma (Score:5, Funny)
Hi,
BG (season 4.5) exposes another more significant dilemma for me: Imagine you're a resident of a third world country (e.g. Germany or UK) and even capable and willing to pay for your favorite TV series. Would you wait months or years for it to acess it legaly or just download it immediately from the asinus electronicus? What if your wife is even more anxious to see it than you? Having a gun put against you head can not be compared to the pressure applied to one in such a case.
Hard choices :-)
Yours, Martin
Re:Hmm minor word-o (Score:3, Funny)
Been there Done that... (Score:2, Funny)
Gene Roddenberry had been using parallelism and morale dilemmas in his show for decades. As a matter of fact, I thought the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is even more cheesy than the first. Whats up with this camera guy, does he have Parkinsons or something? No, I do not deny Star Trek can be cheesy either but at least it doesn't make me feel dumber for having watched it.
I think I know what the problem is.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is this... (Score:1, Funny)
I belief its a add.
Re:Another dilemma (Score:5, Funny)
Any nation whose citizens do not have readily available access to BSG is, IMHO, a third world nation.
Re:Another dilemma (Score:5, Funny)
My education is sufficent to use irony by exaggeration :-).
Re:Tackle? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There was a season 3? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and comparing it to General Hospital is low, man. BSG is far far better than that. Think Dallas.
Re:First Post! (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot's technology gives me the possibility to crush your will by modding you down!
Re:Another dilemma (Score:4, Funny)
Imagine you received a first world education
Imagine a whooshing sound, just above your head...
Re:Tackle? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:really? (Score:3, Funny)
You can have mine.
Oh, wait...
Re:Another dilemma (Score:3, Funny)
That sound you just heard. That was a joke screaming over your head at around mach 2.
Would you like someone to illustrate the joke for you.
A Television Revolution (Score:3, Funny)
The final fourth season is nearly over, and when the final episode airs, television will never be the same again.
I'm sure it's a good show, but get real here. Television will be pretty much the same after BSG than it was before BSG.
Now, I wouldn't say that...
I mean, for one thing, BSG apparently has allowed for the possibility of more than one fourth season. How many have they had now? I guess after this final fourth season they'll finally move on to season 5.
Re:First Post! (Score:2, Funny)
My parent and grandparent are both tools! must run in the family... :(
Re:First Post! (Score:3, Funny)
Only if you can keep your server from being slashdotted will we consider your technology superior. ;)
Re:First Post! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Cyclons have a plan, but the writers don't (Score:3, Funny)
Instead of "who shot JR" (and who cared anyway?) it's now "who is number 11"?
"I am not a number 11, I am a pers.... ummm, never mind."
Re:Tackle? (Score:3, Funny)
"NO ONE ON OUR SIDE WILL BE KILLED! I GUARANTEE IT!" is not a strategy. It is the only way to convince a coward to fight.
it's a trap! (Score:3, Funny)
This whole thing was written by frakkin' Cylons, you can't trust any of them!
TV (Score:5, Funny)
"and when the final episode airs, television will never be the same again"
Yeap. It'll be all digital.