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Battlestar Galactica's Last Days
bowman9991 writes "If your country was invaded and occupied by a foreign power, would you blow yourself up to fight back? If someone pointed a gun at your head and threatened to pull the trigger if you refused to sign a document you knew would lead to a hundred deaths (and you signed!), would that make you ultimately responsible? Does superior technology give you the moral right to impose your will on a technologically inferior culture? You wouldn't expect a mainstream television show to tackle such philosophically loaded questions, certainly not a show based on cheesy science fiction from the '70s, but if you've watched Battlestar Galactica since it was re-imagined in 2003, there has been no escape. The final fourth season is nearly over, and when the final episode airs, television will never be the same again. SFFMedia illustrates how Battlestar Galactica exposes the moral dilemmas, outrages, and questionable believes of the present as effectively (but more entertainingly) than any documentary or news program. It's not hard to see parallels in the CIA and US military's use of interrogation techniques in Bush's War on Terror, the effects of labeling one race as 'the enemy,' the crackdown on free speech, or the use of suicide bombers in Iraq."
Now, my figures may be way off, but it looks to me like the last episode of BSG pulled in less than 2 million viewers, unlike Chuck, a fun show I'm currently enjoying, which pulled in around 6 million. (Do correct me if I'm way off).
BSG is a show with a very vocal audience, who enjoy discussing and dissecting every issue all over the internet, despite my best attempts to avoid them. However, I'm not sure it's actually that fun to watch. It certainly wasn't at first.
Who is the fifth cylon? I really couldn't care less. I don't hate BSG, but just to put some perspective on things, for most people it isn't that big.
Combination - fun iPhone puzzling