Note to Ron Moore: For whatever reason, the writing and production team you have assembled cannot put together a murder mystery. All of the episodes centering on a murder mystery (Black Market, The Woman King, Litmus) are really bad, and the murder mystery elements of...
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Re-reading Michael Walzer has got me to thinking about Cylons and justice in war. Simply put, what methods of combatting the Cylons are impermissible under a common understanding of justice.
Brad's Battlestar Galactica article reminded me of this gem (discovered by Scott) from Jonah Goldberg,written in response to episode 2-17:In a society scientifically so much more advanced, it seems to.
A Mercury class battlestar, Pegasus entered service at some point between the First and Second Cylon wars. Her design represented a remarkable advance over that of the earliest battlestars, occupying nearly twice the volume of the Battlestar Galactica. Her armor, tactical speed, damage absorption capacity,...
BSG Blogging IBSG Blogging IIBSG Blogging IIIIn PLA conversations, the phrase shashoujian has come to represent a set of strategies designed to defeat the United States. Specifically, these strategies concentrate.
BSG Blogging IBSG Blogging IIPolitical relevance aside, the new BSG is just a damn fine show. The twenty-seventh hour screened last night, and, for my money, the twenty-seven hours thus.
BSG Blogging IThe Cylons of the new Battlestar Galactica aren't quite like any other science fiction race I'm familiar with. DJW once told me that he hated Star Trek: First Contact (one of my favorite Star Trek movies) because it gave up on the Borg....
This is the first of three posts on Battlestar Galactica, which resumes its second season on Sci-Fi tomorrow night. This first post deals with the question of civilian and military.