BSG: compelling commentary on our wartime society

[Hero1000]

this episode: ticking time bomb hypo with torture, fanatically religious enemies with terroristic tactics

 

[CaptainWacky]

Which episode?

 

[Hero1000]

The one where Starbuck interrogates teh cylon. It's like Dershowitz's time bomb hypo.

 

[Hero1000]

seasn 1

 

[Cassie]

OH.. yes that was a great episode. They dunk his head in a bucket.

 

[CaptainWacky]

That was the one with the infamous "Adama is a cylon" line.

I liked all Leoben's talk about being in tune with the universe and "all this has happened before and it will happen again" and the bit where he said maybe the last time Starbuck was being tortured and he was the interrogator. Shame they still haven't really explained what all that meant.

 

[Cassie]

Yeah.. JUST LIKE THE FOUR TOED STATUE

 

[Fuddlemiff]

They explained it to an extent, but I think the writers have changed their plan since that episode. The wars and the creation of "Cylons" is cyclical (EJO said it was a metaphor for the way all of us repeat our mistakes over and over until one day we change our ways), but the hint that the characters themselves are reincarnated in some way looks to have been dropped.

 

[CaptainWacky]

But there's still no explanation about the cylons being created more than once or whatever.