Hey, You Know What You Should Do?
Hey, You Know What You Should Do?
In which we tell you about awesome things that you must look into and enjoy.
Watch Battlestar Galactic (x2)
You should immediately watch the 2004 remake of Battlestar Galactica! BSG is not the cheesy
science fiction show you think it is. It’s a gritty military drama about human nature that just
happens to be set in space. Sure it involves murderous androids bent on genocide, epic space
battles, and the last bastion of humanity running for their lives across the galaxies. And ok
there’s also mythical prophesies at work, angels helping the cause and a race that has
conquered immortality. So really it just depends on your definition of cheesy.
There are no aliens, just the morally ambiguous Cylons, a race of androids who develop
consciousness and turn on their creators. They succeed in decimating all inhabitable planets
and most of the human race. They’ve evolved past their clunky robotic forms into ones that
mimic humans, complete with emotions, nerve endings and a fiercely devout religious culture –
sometimes it feels like this development was instituted solely for shots of hot robot action but is
that really a downside? Over the course of four seasons the Cylons evolve past rudimentary
characters with a group mind to fledgling souls struggling with their place in the universe and the
destruction they originally set upon with such abandon.
The series revolves around the last fifty thousand survivors trying to hold on to civilization on
board a rag tag group of spaceships searching out new planet to call home. At its heart BSG is
about people thrust into desperate situations and the terrible choices they have to make for
survival. After a steady diet of Gene Roddenberry’s picture of the future it’s a grim portrayal,
but it’s a refreshing edginess that holds the hint of actual possibility.-AS
Have you ever watched a show that made you say, ‘oh shit’ out loud and felt like a fool because other people were in the next room and totally heard you say it? I do this with nearly every episode in this series! Thanks to Netflix instant, I have been able to sate my inner geek and roll through with gale force speed on this 4 season science fiction show. It will entice you from the first episode and keep you wondering how the characters are going to deal with the obstacles they have to over come. You might be thinking, well whoopdyfuckindo- it has a plot and makes you like the characters. Well I can’t really say that most shows on television do that nowadays, so give it a shot.
You’re obviously not convinced since you didn’t immediately run to your tv, so, let me give you a basic plotline OF THE FIRST EPISODE- man creates an artificial intelligence that become capable of creating their own code, decide to turn on humans, start a war, disappear, and comes back 40 years after their attacks through infiltrating technological systems and using nuclear weapons to carpet bomb the human race. The best part? Some of those robots look human; and the even BETTER PART?? They are capable of being sleeper spies!!! Let’s be real, if you don’t love the idea of a sleeper agent capable of switching teams at any point in time, you don’t posses the ability to like anything good.
Its cast is attractive, they can act, and their animation of space isn’t horrible. In the words of Damien B: Get on it, get get on it.- MV
You’re obviously not convinced since you didn’t immediately run to your tv, so, let me give you a basic plotline OF THE FIRST EPISODE- man creates an artificial intelligence that become capable of creating their own code, decide to turn on humans, start a war, disappear, and comes back 40 years after their attacks through infiltrating technological systems and using nuclear weapons to carpet bomb the human race. The best part? Some of those robots look human; and the even BETTER PART?? They are capable of being sleeper spies!!! Let’s be real, if you don’t love the idea of a sleeper agent capable of switching teams at any point in time, you don’t posses the ability to like anything good.
Its cast is attractive, they can act, and their animation of space isn’t horrible. In the words of Damien B: Get on it, get get on it.- MV