http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/300 Notes from the intersection of law, society, technology, economics, and culture Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/300#comment-4351 Ben Samuel Nelson Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:12:24 +0000 http://www.lawsocietyblog.com/archives/300#comment-4351 What's unique about the season premiere of Battlestar (as someone at Crooked Timber mentioned) is that it was obviously written as an allegory, but also to resist being allegorical. Character roles deviate from their real life counterparts. Previously, the Battlestar republic was dealing with issues of security and human rights, and was playing the role of contemporary America; now, by contrast, most of the fleet's population has taken on the role of the insurgents. The former President, a morally fraught woman who has the sensibility of a Democrat in dire straights, concedes to her former VP that she had tried to steal the election. The occupying Cylons are monotheistic, and the humans polytheists, but our sympathies are drawn towards the latter (with some exceptions). I was really impressed. What’s unique about the season premiere of Battlestar (as someone at Crooked Timber mentioned) is that it was obviously written as an allegory, but also to resist being allegorical. Character roles deviate from their real life counterparts. Previously, the Battlestar republic was dealing with issues of security and human rights, and was playing the role of contemporary America; now, by contrast, most of the fleet’s population has taken on the role of the insurgents. The former President, a morally fraught woman who has the sensibility of a Democrat in dire straights, concedes to her former VP that she had tried to steal the election. The occupying Cylons are monotheistic, and the humans polytheists, but our sympathies are drawn towards the latter (with some exceptions). I was really impressed.

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