Friday, October 06, 2006
Friendly reminder: Battlestar Galactica season premiere tonight!
I certainly hope you didn't make important plans tonight, because if you did you will have to cancel them. It is the season premiere of the best show on television, Battlestar Galactica. Important links here. Feel free to deposit your review in the comments to this post later this evening.
UPDATE: Frack me! Who spotted the allusion to The Great Escape?
2 Comments:
By 
Doug, at
Fri Oct 06, 06:23:00 PM:
OT, but outrageous:
A known insurgent who had been captured three times, then released.
Prosecutors have said that the servicemen killed Awad out of frustration and then planted an AK-47 assault rifle and a shovel by the body to make it look as if he had been caught digging a hole for a roadside bomb.
Bacos testified that the squad entered Hamdaniya on April 26 while searching for a known insurgent who had been captured three times, then released.
Squad leader Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins was "just mad that we kept letting him go and he was a known terrorist," Bacos said.
- CNN
By 
, at
Sat Oct 07, 01:03:00 PM:
This was an extraordinary episode of a consistently superb show. I have always been struck by the unusually/refreshingly (for the entertainment biz) "hawk-friendly" subtext of the show; the hard decisions which the characters are forced to make by their dire circumstances have always seemed to me to track well with those which the GWOT (or whatever) require of us.
In this episode, however, the waters are rather muddied, and I am genuinely curious about where the writers will take things from here. The "insurgency" storyline carries a whiff of 'moral equivalency,' which makes me more than a bit uncomfortable. However, I do have faith that this show, which has never taken the easy way out, will depict the complexity of these moral issues in a way which will satisfy and provoke layered thinking. I'm more than a bit curious about how other readers (not to mention TH himself) respond to this latest turn in the show.
Fracking brilliant.
