Opaque Lucidity

Razor (Geek Alert)

Until this morning, I believed that the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica was not due until 2008. While this is true, the Sci-Fi channel is releasing a movie about that other crew in November---the crew of the Pegasus. For those of you not in the know, Pegasus was another ship, newer and much larger than Galactica, that also survived the Cylon attack. When Galactica and her civilian fleet met up with Pegasus, she was alone. Come to find out, she had also started out with her own fleet of civilian ships, but the Pegasus crew had stripped them of parts, supplies and civilians with military skills and left everyone else to their own devices, presumably to die the next time a few Cylon ships came along. Keep in mind that the human race has been reduced to about 50,000 people at this point.

I used to listen to Ronald Moore's (producer of BSG) podcast, and he said at one point that we shouldn't be so quick to condemn Pegasus and her commander, Admiral Cain. After all, we don't know what they went through in the six months between the beginning of the war and the time they met up with Galactica. This tells me that the backstory of Pegasus is complicated and probably worthy of our time. Either way, I'm jonesing for some BSG, so I'm sure I'll watch it.

Am I hopeless, or what?