Battlestar Galactica
Growing up as kid watching The Next Generation and Voyager, the one thing that made my interest in Star Trek wane as I got older was just how bloody nice everyone is. A Third World War is likely to destroy all life on the planet, not encourage ... See morehumanity to all be really swell to each other and decide to get rid of all money and desire.
Battlestar Galactica is the answer to that. Humans in BSG aren’t future humans devoid of jealousy and anger. They are assholes. They get into fist fights, stab each other in the back and generally make life difficult for each other, just like us present day humans like to do. The only true enemy in the universe are even created by human hands, so the show sets itself up early as a demonstration of human flaws and mistakes.
At the same time, BSG also showcases some of the best qualities of humanity such as perseverance, dedication and kindness. The show also adds to its believability by ignoring lasers and shields and other staples of science fiction combat, preferring a more realistic – and refreshing - combination of bullets, nukes and fighters. Ignoring the obvious concession of sound, space combat in BSG looks like it’s actually happening.
'Man's inhumanity to man.' - Disgusting isn't it? Evidence, which even the most rudimentary layman would easily understand, has shown that humans as a collective whole can do so much better than the individual... Yet we constantly exploit every opportunity to get a leg up over fellow humans even if it's at the expense of millions..
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I thought the tech and the characterisation was all fantastic, (the tech especially was a believable leap from the things we have and are thinking about using now) I'm even on-board for the bio-tech/geneticly-engineered Cylons, but towards the later seasons, it got far too god-bothery for my tastes.
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