Play My Cards Right

In reading the various BG:TNS boards that I do, I’ve found there are generally two camps of thought surrounding the new drive towards mysticism on BG: 1) There is no place for prophecy and such on a show as “realistic” as battlestar galactica 2) Bring on the prophecy! The president is going to lead the Colonists to Earth! Yay!

What naysayers seem to forget is in that BG is about holding up a mirror to our society, there will inevitably be a discussion of religion’s place in government. The Colonies do not have Jesus, they do not have god (yes, the Cylons do). They have the twelve lords of Kobol and the prophecies, the scrolls etc.. What appear to us to be inklings of bizarre magic and such are no more mystical than our own president’s religious zeal.

We live in a time when religious leaders are actively discussing the possibility of armageddon, the place certain countries have in fulfilling the prophecies of the bible, and a president whom many have claimed believes he is in power due to the “hand of god” (bad pun, intended). If we step back and look at Christianity itself, it is absolutely no more bizarre and superstitious than the religion of the colonists.

Granted, there is a lot of weirdness going on with the president’s seemingly precient visions, but I believe that these are very much the kinds of coincidences people see to justify things. Like Six may only be the cracked mind of Gaius Balter dealing with the horror of his life, telling him nothing he doesn’t already know (until episode 12 anyway?), what Roslin is seeing could very well be nothing more than fractured images residing in her subconscious that she is now interpreting as prophecy. Nothing she has seen so far is necessarily anything she hasn’t experienced in her life in some way.

Ronald Moore is setting up a president who believes she walks the path laid out to her by the gods. Sound familiar? Religion, mysticism and superstition are on Galactica because they are a huge part of our culture.

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Pitchfork has a great interview with M.I.A.today. Read it!

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Estimate

To the left are my gas bill numbers from this month. As you can see, even though I gave my meter reading at least 3 very cold days after they did the estimate, they overestimated my bill by over ten MCF. My march 2003 bill is even lower than this year’s, yet they didn’t adjust the estimate. When I called in to give a meter reading, they didn’t believe me at first because the actual reading was so different from the estimate. This amounts to over $100 difference in my gas bill.

Actual

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I haven’t been posting regularly for some time. Since January things have been moving very quickly and I’ve had a hard time collecting mental things to place here. I feel like all I would be able to write is various complaints and gripes, which is boring, so I have refrained. Things will likely continue like this until after the reception, we’ll see.

If you’re interested, I’m working on Luke and Dawn.com, which is currently a repository of information about the reception, but will eventually become some kind of day in the married life sort of thing.

Also in the last month I completed ripping my cd collection to itunes for ratings, iPodding and playing through the old XBMC. It took about 4 months, and my itunes library is now comprised of 1148 albums, about 75% of it is from my cds. I have not ripped my vinyl, and I doubt I will- at least for the time being. I was thinking about doing a music and voice podcast, but probably won’t.

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Maybe I love that two headed child so much because I see a little bit of me in that wacky birth defect of a second head.

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