Battlestar Galactica

[shahrzad]

I wrote some stuff about battlestar for my international relations class. Its a little long, but I thought I'd post it here behind a cut just for fun. (fyi: the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs contain plot summeries)

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[jibb]

Another possibly relevant episode would be Resistance, where Tigh sends in the marines to get supplies during the protests after Rosilin's arrest. This could be read as an anti-military-power message, or as an argument against military forces being used for peace-keeping/police action (see Iraq).

[aprilarcus]

Interesting essay. A few replies:

Adama and Roslin are explicitly absolved of their culpability in the destruction of the Olympic Carrier in "33" when it is discovered to be carying a nuclear warhead. Personally, I think this weakens the episode by removing its moral dilemma, but it is interesting to note that the writers chose to shy away from that.

The show's moral axis is much more complicated than Adama as a pro-security military commander and Roslin as a pro-freedom civillian president. Adama has, on several occasions, remarked that his father was a civil liberties attourney and raised him with a clear social conscience. He very rarely meddles in public policy except when it intersects his responsibilities as military leader - for example, in the first season cliffhanger, he only has Roslin arrested after she incites mutiny in his chain of command. He defends democracy even when it leads to elected officials (Zarek and Baltar) and policies (New Caprica) with which he disagrees utterly