I’m clearly late on this one, but BattleStar Galactica is properly genius. Just watched Series 1.
Monotheism vs Polytheism, Military vs Politicians, Machine vs Man, and plenty of paranoia, schizophrenia, terrorism and sex – it’s all there. You probably all know the changes they made from the original series (e.g: Starbuck’s now a girl), but often the themes were already there, but less overt.
Written in the aftermath of September 11th, the new version could be taken as a critique of US foreign policy – the cast and producers were invited to speak to the UN on human rights, terrorism, children in conflicts and more. Time magazine rate it as “a gripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with monotheistic religious fundamentalists (here, genocidal cyborgs called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal.”
Sit down to watch the 3 hour mini series that preceeds Series 1, and then settle in for some very good TV. Up there with The Wire, Sopranos and the like, I’ll be recommending this to everyone. It’s Sci-Fi but not as you knew it.
