Battlestar Galactica

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Battlestar Galactica is a story of betrayal for those who created the cylons. The story is a classic scenario that entails man creating machine and machine turning and destroying man. Battlestar shows heavily a sub text of anger that is distributed by the people through the way of the government. The episode shows great emotion and intensity amongst the lead characters by throwing power into the mix of drama.

The characters in Battlestar Galactica show the state in which humanity reacts in the time of great defeat. This is shown immediately when the Secretary of Education is sworn into presidency. She almost instantaneously reacts throwing out commands in all directions. She believes that whatever she says is the correct way to react and thus communism is seen as the new form of government. Other patrons of the ship disagree with her as well as the captain of the Battlestar Galactica who perceives her as not knowing what she is doing. The distress caused by the new president and the captain create its own mini war partially because the president refuses to budge while the captain doesn’t seem to care what she thinks. This essentially splits the government up into civilians and soldiers. The civilians, the remainder of the human race, are sent to fend for themselves because the soldiers want to go to war even though it is said that the war has been lost. This controversy is what creates war throughout the empire.

The fighting between the president and the captain both have good and valid points, yet lack compassion for the opposite side. Ethically speaking the president was in the right for wanting to save everyone that was left and she put up a good fight while trying to save everyone. She did however lose site when she started...

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...k today. They seemed to leave out what was best for the people. The president had the right idea, but she cared more about saving people then thinking of an exit strategy, yet the captain had ideas but didn’t care about the actual safety of the people. This subject not only creates controversy in the show, but relates back to the real world and the controversy between whether or not our government is actually here to help us, or whether they are just here with their own selfish purposes.

The Story of Battlestar Galactica is a deeply intriguing and sub textual story filled with betrayal and fear. The show hits heavy with ethics and the weaknesses and strengths that a government can have when it is thrown into an unknown situation with unknown outcomes. Battlestar Galactica shows the faults in humanity and can show us, as humans, how to overcome some of those faults.

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