10 Reasons You Should Watch Battlestar Galactica - Page 2 |
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| Written by Lauren Cheal |
| Thursday, 08 October 2009 00:00 |
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5. The Season 2 Finale Seriously. Watch the series, if only to get to this moment. Your mind will be blown.
There are only twelve models of humanoid Cylon, all with multiple copies, and one of the unraveling mysteries of the show is discovering who those twelve models are. The model called "Six" is portrayed by Canadian Tricia Helfer. In the pilot, Six orchestrates the weakening of the defensive mainframe on Caprica, one of the twelve colonies destroyed in the attacks. Six is freaking hot, and she handles the whole "woman scorned" thing with remarkable pluck. The version of Six that appears most often on the series exists only in the mind of Gaius Baltar. The human, Baltar, is partially (and unwittingly) responsible for the attacks on Caprica. He continues to be infatuated with Six even though she exists for him mostly in his mind. The scenes where he is being advised, harassed, hit on, or punched by her in front of people who can't see her are downright hilarious. 7. Fake Swearing- FRAK! The most potent swear word in the BSG universe is "Frak". An expletive stand in for "Fuck", it can mean sex (as in "are you still frakking Boomer, Chief Tyrol?"), it can be used to add urgency to an order ("Get your frakking asses down to the flight deck!"), or simply as an angry outburst ("We have just been nuked by cylons. FRAK!"). What's most entertaining is that the fake swearing goes uncensored by the network. The first few times you hear the word, it seems comical and goofy, but as you watch the series, the weight of the word grows and each time it is uttered, you feel lucky that the censors didn't have their way. It is just frakking great. 8. Colonel and Lady Tigh Colonel Saul Tigh and his frakking crazy wife Ellen are another good reason to watch BSG. Colonel Tigh is Adama's right-hand man, his executive officer on the ship, and his best friend. The two have been through war and personal tragedy together, and are just about as cute as hard-drinking military curmudgeons can be. Saul is the loyal lieutenant that Adama relies on to help him make hard decisions, and to keep the ship running smoothly at a time of war. People don't like him, but he'd be the first to tell you that it isn't his job to be liked; it is his job to run the frakking ship. Saul is particularly prone to drinking and given his crazy-assed wife, I can't say I blame him.
This is the great thing about living in a DVD world. The show is done and all four and half seasons are available. No waiting around for months after an excruciating cliffhanger (ahem, Lost, Big Love)! Just pure enjoyment, episode after episode. And trust me, there will be times when it will be essential that you see the next episode immediately after the previous one. Just chalk those sleepy next-days at work up to great television. Who loses when that happens? No one. I recommend buying the DVDs because of the great bonus features. Most intriguing are the interviews with creator and writer Ron Moore - learning more about the world he wanted to create gives you an ever greater appreciation when you re-watch it. 10. BSG is simply great Television The smart premise sets up relevant political and moral questions that make for undeniably compelling television. The writers ask the audience to consider what is important to each of us in the lives we lead. The show specifically addresses the question of "the other" when it asks its citizens to decide how they will treat humanoid Cylons, who look just like them and have the same feelings and emotions as they do. In many ways, the episodes are morality plays meant to reflect our own times. How should we deal with people who are different from us, but so much more the same? Who has a right to liberty? What should be done to protect human life, now and in the future? What are we willing to sacrifice for our own freedom? What is freedom? BSG doesn't tell viewers what to think, it asks that we decide for ourselves. More than just television, BSG is great drama. Related Articles: Battlestar Galactica: Picking Up the Scraps of Humanity
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