Jul 06 2009
Battlestar Galactica, decommissioned.
We’re finished, finally finished. Five seasons of the re-imagined/rebooted Battlestar Galactica. It certainly wasn’t cut short like Firefly, for which we can always be thankful.
What is it? That’s easy — it’s a war story. The main characters are the defenders of the last of humanity, the military crew of the titular spaceship. But there are other places and people too — the civilians that truly make up what is left of the human race, and the enemy who chase them through the stars. It’s an epic, a space opera in the least pejorative sense of the word.
And since it’s written on such a grand scale there is plenty of opportunity to examine the minutiae of life and society — fledgling government, military rule, religion, war propaganda — as well as larger questions of humanity. Like any good science fiction, it provides a safe, removed theatre in which to examine some tricky subjects.
If anyone wants to borrow the complete thing, we have a substantial number of DVDs here. I totally recommend it.