Blue Eyes Designs

Any of you who know me, well, at all really. Have probably heard me ramble at some point or another about my favorite show, Battlestar Galatica. I owe RB the dubious honor of introducing me to the sci-fi crack that is the remake of the campy 70’s series. I pledge my allegiance to BSG because it, unlike much of the widely distributed sci-fi that’s out there these days, resides in the realm of the grey, the hazy, foggy regions where a character is not immediately identifiable as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and your opinion of them might change completely from one minute to the next. It’s the type of show where you can’t arm-chair quarterback, because honestly, you’re not sure what you would have done either. It’s the kind of show that appeals to my need for intellectual content wrapped in a narrative with characters that I don’t feel embarrassed to care about.

And it’s coming under fire.

I usually try not to respond to fan-blather about media that I find particularly tasteful, however this article denouncing Battlestar Galatica was in a higher profile place than a backwater fan-board and has raised my ire.

Tread not lightly into the extended entry. It’s about 1300 words. I kinda got long winded, but I think that’s OK. As E pointed out, it’s something that I’m passionate about and I don’t think I would mind one bit if BSG talk became a regular feature of LineNoise, as long as it keeps the fan-freakiness to a dull roar.
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