BLUE MAG

Leftover observation from last week’s Battlestar Galactica… An interesting wrinkle in the BSG world is that Tom Zarek, the leftist anti-government terrorist character played by Richard Hatch (no, not the naked Survivor one, the original Battlestar series’ Apollo one), was originally introduced as being a Sagitarron sympathizer. The nature of the Sagitarron colony’s struggle was thereafter fleshed out to make the Sagitarron colonists rabidly pro-life religious zealots in Season 2 (when a girl from that colony made her way to the Galactica to get Dr. Cottle to perform an abortion) and now last week that has been expanded to make them anti-modern medicine religious zealots.

It’s just another one of those art-mirrors-life-or-does-it? twists that the show pulls off–most heavy-handedly presented by placing the humans on New Caprica in the position of an occupied society–that makes this surely the greatest science fiction show in history.

For complete nerds: Tom Zarek represents “Chaotic Neutral.” Discuss.