I’m really enjoying the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. Nothing like it on television. These past few episodes have been some of the best.
Here’s some recent related links:
Dave Rogers: BSG: Flying Toasters:
Adama raises the central question, but doesn’t have the answer. Events conspire to propel him even further along this journey as he’s forced to confront loss on a scale that seems incomprehensible. It’s been fascinating to watch his character wrestle with these questions, his conditioned and habituated thinking, and the consequences of the choices he’s forced to make, as someone with authority and responsibility. I was surprised and pleased last night in the scene were Adama confronted Boomer to ask why the Cylons hate humanity so, and Boomer said that “hate” probably wasn’t the right word. Adama indicated his impatience with her by saying he didn’t intend to fence with her. Boomer then reflected his own words back to him, from his retirement speech aboard Galactica.
It is, I think, the logical conclusion of believing one can create a technology that can “patch” or “work around” the worst failings in our own nature.
What happens if we succeed?