Edited sentence: ) The human refugees of Galactica are drawn to strongly resemble Middle Eastern populations, the Cylons are drawn to strongly resemble the US/coalition/Israeli forces, etc.Criticism in the blogosphere centers around two points:.Many commentors on both the left and the right have acknowledged the strong analogy.The analogy likens US troops and politicians to a robotic menace that has committed genocide on a grand scale (tens of billions of humans killed; the race almost entirely destroyed).The entire series clearly has drawn inspiration from ongoing geopolitical events , but this episode makes the analogy much too obvious.The episode draws massive and obvious parallels with the US led coalition's occupation of Iraq (and, to a lesser extent, with the former Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip, etc.The writing and analogies are unsubtle and awkward.Tyrol, for example, has white hair, a white beard, an eye patch, and wears a kufi, etc