How Politics Destroyed Battlestar Galactica

Friday night was once BSG night before it went off the air. But BSG went bad long before that. Jonah Goldberg understands politics and entertainment, and sometimes he writes articles that truly echo my thoughts. For years I tried to convince my brother to watch Battlestar Galactica because it was the best show on TV. But as the show went on, I changed my pitch to my brother and only tried to get him to watch the first couple seasons. By the end of the show's run, I no longer was trying to convince him to watch the show- liberal leftism combined with incoherent moral relativism had ruined the once great Battlestar Galactica.

In the beginning, I really felt the show tried to grapple with the post-9/11 world, but by the end, it had fallen back into a pre-9/11 world of moral ambiguity and emptiness. Where once strong characters and great human beings- who were full of all of the stuff that makes men great but also full of all of the failures of man- stirred the soul with striking action and stirring dialogue, the show degenerated into 'complex' characters who were boring and unlifelike, so much that they would die and come back again for no reason and the machines ended up being more human that the perfect morally relativistic humans they were trying to kill or love or save or something.

If you are a fan of the show, I suggest you take a look at Goldberg's column- he does a much better job at analyzing what went wrong with the great show Battlestar Galactica in his column and really articulates exactly what went wrong.

Oh, and if you haven't checked out Firefly yet, I suggest you do- that show ended before they could wreck it.