Come to think of it, in 5 years I never missed an episode.

I cant think of anything on any other network that I watched.

BSG was really the only show I’ve watched in more than 5 years.

Good Job

I thought that at first myself, but upon repeat viewings, he clearly says ‘frakking’.

Wish I had some way to link to this so that you all could get me to stop obsessing.

Thats the way I heard it as well.

SO SAY WE ALL

God bless!

I think our post-9/11 world is open to interpretation. Have we really understood what led to that day, or are we just happy there hasn’t been another one?

Real life aside, there’s a MASSIVE difference between a terrorist attack or a lengthy war (such as the shows you mentioned) and humanity being all but DESTROYED. That’s a major distinction that you seem to ignore or dismiss too easily. The idea of genocide didn’t even factor into DS9 until the very last episode, and it seemed to manifest as a symptom of mental illness in the female Founder (rightfully so).

Besides, a commentary on a post-9/11 world doesn’t mean a literal mirror of events. No one is saying that BSG is a fact-for-fact recreation. But it does address many of the philosophical and societal issues raised by those events, filtered through a science-fiction premise.

“last time I checked we’re not all wallowing in self-pity and drinking ourselves into a stupor every night, we’re not killing ourselves because we’re having problems and we don’t sit around crying over what we’ve lost.”

A lot of people did, immediately following the attacks. Society as a whole didn’t and isn’t, that’s good. Neither is society as a whole on BSG. There are 39,000 people in that fleet besides Cylons and our main characters. But the limitations of a 45 minute episode every week means we aren’t going to live life with all those 39,000 other people.

Also remember that our main characters are almost entirely comprised of people in positions of authority. They are responsible for the lives of everyone else. People in those positions do shoulder more burdens than your average citizen, and will typically be more susceptible to depression. Considering the fact that billions are dead and they’re in a perpetual run for their lives, I’d say they’ve held together remarkably well.

I liked B5 enough to buy the entire run on DVD, but I hear exactly what you’re saying. I really respect the epic scope of the series. Yet as good as the big picture was, the details sometimes didn’t stand up to close scrutiny. Don’t even get me started on the dialogue, which was often cringe-worthy.

BSG’s characters acted more naturally and spoke much more realistically, IMHO.

Just drop something into the hole, increase the mass, increase the pull, Cylon base gets sucked in.

LIkely, Galactica will crash into the base exactly mimicing Sisco and Ducat in the Fire Caves.

Roslyn is exactly Kai Wynn. “the gods speak but not to me” aww how sad.

But you know they rescue Hera, jump away to a fresh planet and there is the Opera house and yadda yadda yadda