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My Tell Me Why for scifiland
500 words of nonsensical rambling on BSG and 20 icons
Battlestar Galactica is probably one of my favorite shows for all eternity. Why? Because it has amazing writing (for the most part, let’s just ignore parts of season three ‘kay?), and acting (c’mon this show has Mary McDonnell, Edwards James Olmos, Katee Sackoff, among others). All of these combines to create a raw and relevant narrative about the last of the human race’s struggle to survive. These people aren’t the best and the brightest like you get on Star Trek, they’re the unlucky ones that have to manage to survive with limited resources (Cylon’s blowing up your water tanks don’t help none), a fledgling government (your President was 43rd in the line of succession), and the only protectors of the fleet a ship and crew that was to be retired that day (think windows v Mac but in this case it’s good not to be modern). And of course every fandom is built around the ships, the ones that make you SQUEEEEEE and the others that make you go “shiny”.
This obvious shiny ships would the Galactica, which is pretty much the little ship that could and won’t fall apart until the end of the series. Then there’s the Raptors and Vipers, which are the Recon and fighter ships respective, both are shiny, fast, and amazing. But perhaps the shiniest of them all is the Cylon Basestar and Resurrection ship, and the Raiders. The Cylon ships aren’t only super shiny chrome they are sentient ships, that in the case of the larger ones are controlled by a Hybrid which a humanish thing in a tub of goo that loves to spurt really random and nonsensical gibberish or are just machines that can be just as good as pilots as Starbuck (if you’ve watched Scar you know what I’m talking about).
Then of course there is the other ship, that we all know and love or love to hate or just barely tolerate. And this show gives you plenty of hook ups, affairs, soul mates, slow burns, dysfunctional relationships at their best, and of course just tons of pretty people in enclosed spaces.
Then there’s the characters of shear awesome that give you the HBIC, the BAMF, the ol’ chain smoking doc, the knuckle draggers, and the other motley assortment of people that make of this cast. Laura Roslin, the schoolteacher turned President turned schoolteacher reelected President, Admiral Adama, hotshot pilot Kara Thace, the human who gave the Cylons the means to destroy humanity Dr Baltar his invisible friend and super hot Cylon Caprica Six. And of course this show has awesome guest stars, and what Sci Fi show is complete without Mark Shepherd? These are the characters who grow over the course of the show some in directions that make you want to throw a shoe or some other appropriately heavy object at your tv, but it is these characters that make you watch, that make you care. Because their journey through space with a couple of pit stops on the way to earth is what makes you tune each week, to see how they’re going to deal with supply shortages, mutiny, and Cylons.