One Stray Word

So, my wife and I finally watched the entirety of the Battlestar Galactica remake (or re-imagining, if you’re so inclined). I started on a longer write up of it, but then I decided I didn’t enjoy writing about BSG as much as I did talking about it. This probably would have made for a good podcast episode now that I think about it…

I will say I did enjoy the series as a whole and I will certainly check on the prequel series that’s going to debut on Sci-Fi Channel next year. But BSG as a whole, I give it 2 thumbs. In fact, if I could just borrow my wife’s thumbs for a moment (she won’t mind), I’ll give it 4 thumbs up!

Although it was a great character show (seriously, it’s a shame none of these people won Emmys) I was definitely more interested in the mythology of the show. The origins of the Cylons, the hunt for Earth, the phantom characters that may or may not have been angels(more on that below). I was disappointed (or maybe surprised) to learn how much of the show had been made up on the fly, without much of over-arcing plan. But, regardless, it worked.

I was impressed and surprised with the amount of religious and spiritual overtones the series had from beginning to end. Looking over some of the reviews and comments that were left in the wake of the finale earlier this year, I noticed that people had a hard time accepting some of the answers the show delivered. Namely, “Because God wanted it that way” and/or “Because God did it.”

I have no idea if the showrunner, Ron Moore, is a Christian or what his personal beliefs are. I wouldn’t even say that BSG is for Christian beliefs. But the show certainly tapped into the sense of God at work. And this certainly bothered a lot of people. They wanted concrete answers for the going-ons in the BSG universe and the answer of God just didn’t cut it with them. For me and my wife, though, it made perfect sense. He does, after all, move in mysterious ways. So we had no trouble accepting that God (or whatever spiritual force was at work in the BSG universe) had such a heavy hand in the events. In fact, I found it refreshing. It was a pleasant change from, say, Star Trek, where All Powerful Aliens would pop with disturbing regularity.

Anyway, I though the show was great. And even though it was dark and depressing at times, it was still kind of sad to say good-bye to all the characters.

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I’ve got a lot of writing to do this week so I’ll finish out today’s column with a couple of photo’s from my personal archives. Enjoy.

Why is she so happy to killing someone? Why is the victim so happy to be killed? Who is to say? Who is to know?

When I worked in 911 Dispatch sometimes I just wanted to shoot the idiot on the other end of the line.

This last is actually an early cover concept for A is for Amnesia, B is for Bullet, prior to having it’s title changed.