Anything that is predictable, can also be used against them.

I stopped watching Battlestar Galactica after about the first season, 12 episodes. Not because the plot wasn’t good, the plot was very exciting and unpredictable, and logical. And not because the characters were unrealistic and stereotypically stupid, no, I stopped watching cause it was so realistic that it took an emotional toll on me to watch the episodes. So like all good series, I’ll just wait until I can watch it all at once, that way I can skip through some stuff.

It isn’t exactly fun, because I already deal with similar situations when looking at Iraq. It is a testament to the show’s realism and objective criteria on humanity, that it is so close to the actual that I’m affected on an emotional and psychological level. And the fact that the first season was a little too dark, not enough happy sappy endings for me. The other seasons might be better though, but that is just speculation.

So next time you read a movie or television review praising a show for having a spunky underdog, don’t assume that you’ll agree with the production’s moral universe (as I discovered when I watched Maria Full of Grace).

Just imagine all the good stuff you can do in the time freed from having to watch these movies, Bookworm ; )

(because Galactica is apparently premised on small good against big evil)

Small good with idiots (the XO) and with some really really, unmilitary people. The discipline is military, but the people don’t act military, meaning they don’t act like Marines, which to me is the model for what the military should act like.

I think if we could have a bunch of US military personas in that situation, it would be a lot more fun and pleasing. Not to say, successful.

It is almost as if these characters on BG have like a really, really, low wisdom. Higher than politicians, but still lower than what you see regularly from Iraq. In Iraq, it is the soldiers with the good stuff and the leaders with the bad. In BG, it is more or less inverted. You have good leaders trying to clean up the stuff. It is understandable because it is a show, so they want to have a lot of moral dilemmas and character conflicts with the many characters. Me, I’m just interested in things getting blow up and the fighters from Galactica, kicking arse. That is about it for me.

Read more books, Bookworm!! Like JJ said.