Okay, Battlestar Gallactica Is Indeed The Best Show on TV

[Yavin4]

Not only is it the best show. It equals the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone in its ability to weave in current political and social issues into a fictional show, and just like Trek and Zone, it does do seemlessly without well within the framework of the story.

So far this season, BSG was able to convey the fear, frustration, and terror that drive people to be suicide bombers. That kind of writing takes extreme guts to pull off in this day and age. Tonight, they address the issue of a president disappearing people.

[Okiojira]

1. Have you watched this week's episode ("Collaborators") yet?

eeeeyikes.

seriously intense, even for the third season's shows which have all been pretty brutal in one way or another.

my wife couldn't sit through the entire episode, it was so heavy. me, i've just finished watching it for a second time, thanks to the miracle of the almighty tivo.

[ContraCommando]

3. Good show, but on the wrong channel.

I’m sure that if this show weren’t on the Sci-fi channel (going downhill rapidly…..wrestling :wtf: ) , it would be nominated for something. They should have put this show on NBC from the start…..NBC could use a good show.

[The Count]

6. Glad it's on SCi-fi as I am boycotting NBC (No Bush Criticism network)

Sci-Fi is still cool - it has Dr Who and Eureka too, and had Farscape, Lexx, Babylon 5. Once they divest themselves of the subpar Stargates, they'll be far better than lameo NBC - which is getting beaten in the ratings even by Fox.

[Yavin4]

8. NBC and the Sci-Fi Channel Are All The Same

It's all a part of the Universal/GE conglomerate.

[ContraCommando]

2. Yeah, they spaced that guy in the beginning.

I guess no good deed goes unpunished. But they like to do that, kill off minor character unexpectedly - Billy, Ellen, Boomer.

[The Count]

5. That had a reason in the plot. We needed to be shown what's wrong

with summary proceedings, without a lawyer or confronting the accused. In fact, according to the inexplicable disappearances, they spaced about 20 people up to that point.
Even if the judges are the best people, with the best intentions, errors will be made. Tha case was made superbly - I got into this show recently - and this story was very rewarding.
The new president pulled a Desmond Tutu "truth and reconciliation". Nice.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I had thought they said 13?

but, still, it's very easy to see something like that happening.

[The Count]

17. 13 from one ship. 11 from another....

They were still compiling numbers

[meldroc]

11. Funny thing about Jammer...

When everyone was evacuating New Caprica last episode, when Tom Zarek (played by Richard Hatch - Apollo in the old series) grabbed him to ask him to guard Roslin, he blurted out "I didn't do anything!!!"

That was the exact same line, blurted out the exact same way, by Baltar, when Helo called him and gave his seat on the Raptor to him back on Caprica in the pilot.

[progressoid]

4. Oh yeah.

[Beetwasher]

9. Yeah and They Are Not Subtle About Their Message Either

Which is ok w/ me. It's perfectly clear what they are talking about and it works very, very well. The show is just plain awesome.

[NewJeffCT]

10. The best part is

That with the humans as insurgents doing suicide bombings, it's making the Freepers heads spin!

[Liberal Veteran]

12. I rather imagine Roslin stating that president doesn't have the authority...

....to strip people of their rights and make them disappear caused the Freepers heads to explode. (And I find I can bear their pathetic temper tantrums with enormous fortitude.)


Either way, I want to trade in our sad excuse for a president with the Laura Roslin model.

[Giant Robot]

13. Really?

I don't go over there because that website gives me headaches to try and navigate. Above and beyond the people there.

[NewJeffCT]

14. I don't go there, either

However, there are a few noted sci-fi fanatics that are decidedly right wing - there was a post on Kos yesterday about how Jonah Goldberg is all upset about Galactica this year, and some other prominent RWer as well.

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. Yes, it is

the undisputed best!!

[xchrom]

16. yeah it is.