For geeks, members of the Twelve Colonies and any passing Cylon infiltrator

I am a geek. I live with it, this tragic terrible affliction and thus readers of this blog must suffer it too. As season 4 of the new BSG reaches its climax and the run ends, I have been reading a bit behind both the conception and its birth.

I stumble across this article by fellow fan-boy and general wit and humourist John Hodgman

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/magazine/17GALACTICA.html

I am hopeful that I can convince my friend Humpers to do a guest post once the series concludes. I will say this now though. BSG might have used analogies with recent events such as mass terrorism, religious fanaticism, suicide bombing and torture, but it made its points general. No goodies were a valiant administration facing down terror or provoked desperate and heroic freedom fighters. No baddies were agressive imperialist pig-dogs or savage theocratic brutes. No cut outs, no easy points. Rather BSG sought to use the initial logic of its premise, infused with a raw emotional power to produce a insightful look at human complexities.

See, horrid aren't I, even worst with the Wire :)