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Titolo: [BSG] LOL!

Giusto per ribadire che ognuno ci può vedere quello che gli pare :-D
Occhio, contiene pesantissimi spoiler sui primi due episodi della terza
stagione.
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2006/10/on-battlestar-galactica-heroic-cylons.html
<quote>
On Battlestar Galactica Heroic Cylons Battle Vicious Terrorists
Some are calling the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica the best show
on
television so I decided to check out the season premiere to see what
all
the hype was about. It turns out to be even better than I had heard.
The
Sci Fi Channel show is a moving and haunting allegory about why we
should
stay the course in Iraq. The heroes are a deeply religious race, called
the
Cylons, who struggle to bring democratic ideals and Christian values to
a
planet called New Caprica (Iraq, of course) in the face of an
increasingly
violent insurgency. In a clever and ironic twist the Christian Cylons
(Americans) are actually very human-like machines, while the
villainous "humans" on New Caprica (al Qaeda) are brutal terrorists who
follow a primitive polytheistic religion and behave like animals.
Although I am not generally a big fan of science fiction (my favorite
genres
are biblical epics, alpine mountain dramas, and women's prison movies),
Battlestar Galactica is not really about the future as much as it's a
subversive analysis of current events. The terrorists are led by an
unscrupulous man prone to violent rages named Admiral Adama (Edward
James
Olmos), who not only has a name that is clearly meant to evoke Osama
Bin
Laden, he also bears something of a resemblance to Saddam Hussein. He
even
has a lazy, playboy son like Saddam had. The insurgency is headed up by
the
unhinged Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan), who is locked up in a
Guantanamo-like prison at the beginning of the episode recovering from
some
Cylon alternate interrogation procedures (apparently New Caprica is
free of
nit-picking Geneva Conventions).
As soon as Col. Tigh is free he goes right back to lead the insurgents
and
decides to up the ante by launching a depraved suicide bombing
campaign.
The first attack takes out a group of idealistic young police recruits,
which, of course, directly parallels terrorist attacks against Iraqi
security forces taking place today. If I have any criticism of the show
it's that the New Capricans are so unsympathetic and vile in contrast
to
the peace-loving Cylons, who are clearly just trying to help them, that
at
times it seems like a simplistic battle between good (the Cylons) and
evil
(the New Capricans). A few more shades of gray might make the show more
interesting.
For example, in one scene a terrorist named Starbuck responds to the
hospitality of one kindly Cylon by viciously murdering him and then
sitting
down to calmly eat her dinner covered with his blood. (Luckily, unlike
our
soldiers in Iraq, the Cylons have the power to regenerate themselves so
he's okay in the next scene.) Perhaps the most annoying of the New
Capricans is a liberal apologist named Laura Roslin (Mary McDonnell)
who
justifies the suicide bombing by saying, "Desperate people use
desperate
measures." At one point she self-righteously accuses the suave and
sophisticated President Gaius Baltar (James Callis) of torturing Col.
Tighe, but he quickly puts her in her place by echoing George Bush: "We
don't use torture." What the New Capricans don't seem to realize is
that
they only make things worse for themselves by resisting the Cylons'
beneficence. If they stopped their futile insurgency, the Cylons would
be
able to repair the infrastructure and give them better places to live
than
tents.
All in all it looks like an impressive series. I was very surprised to
see a
pro-Iraq War, pro-Christian series on television and I urge you to see
it
before liberals get it taken off the air, although I have noticed that
some
people on both the right and the left don't seem to get the show and
have
misunderstood the allegory completely. It's amazing sometimes how some
people could watch the same thing I did and be so completely wrong
about
it. Hopefully, a lot of people see it and it will make them think about
just what it is we are doing in Iraq. 
</quote> 
Daniele

 terza stagione.
Io spero sia ironico questo 8-)
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 Io spero sia ironico questo 8-)
Beh, è chiaro che lo è.
Penso che il suo obiettivo sia proprio di far capire che BSG deve
essere presa per quello che è (una fiction pura, con forti elementi di
realismo), e non per quello che qualcuno si ostina a vedere.
Daniele