BSG Season 2: Pegasus and Resurrection Ship I and II
Last night I slotted disk 3 of BSG season 2 in the old JVC VCR MacBook for my nightly dose of sci-fi and then couldn’t stop watching. Without wanting to spoil it for everyone else who is four years behind on their TV, the character of Admiral Helena Cain was so strong that I couldn’t stop watching to see what would happen. Incredible that the greatest threat to the fleet after all their encounters with Cylons should be meeting back up with the human mothership. Spoilerific summary is here on wikipedia. I also realised something a bit dark about myself: from the second Admiral Cain’s Battlestar entered the story, I wanted her to die and really that was the motivating force that kept me watching for three episodes way past my bed-time. Aside: staying up past bed-time is not lightly done for me because sleep is a precious commodity when you live with a toddler and a baby.
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What I love about BSG (and keep telling my family, ad nauseum) is that like all great SF it’s not about the future, it’s about the here and now, and specifically about what it is to be human.
It’s pretty tough watching: I haven’t started season three as yet, but I feel that an unbiased jury would come down on the side of the genocidal robots.
Yes, well there were some great scenes in just those three episodes including one where Captain Adama finally actually starts talking to Sharon and asks her why the Cylons want to destroy the human race. The answer’s pretty obvious but I’m still wondering if there’s more to the Cylon’s plan than total destruction, I would say forced evolution is part of it.
All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again…