90s kid reportback: race, robots, and beyond

lmao I’m so upset by the tribunal here on Battlestar Galactica not because they’re accusing my dad of being a Cylon collaborator but because the officer leading the examination is asking SO MANY leading questions and I wish someone would start objecting (come on and lawyer it up, Lee!)
( (actually to be frank... )

Anyway, Battlestar Galactica! I got hooked back on it when I was doing my papers on like, AI and hermeneutics and mixed reality and socially-permitted personhood (>30 pages across my classes!) and it’s perfect, right? Well, it is a Trip lmao

Things That Were Evident To Me Watching Battlestar Galactica In the 2000s And Still Relevant 15ish Years Later:

( Hera: )

Things That Were Not Evident To Me Then, But Aren’t Surprising Now:

( Politics! )

What the Fuck:

( wildcard! )

So that's what I'm watching to unwind from finals! Obviously, I've chilled out, because here's works cited for my own entertainment! Quotes from:

• Rennes, Magali. "Kiss Me, Now Die!" Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed Josef Steif and Tristan Tamplin. Open Court, 2008. Pp. 63-76.
• McHenry, Bryan. “Weapons of Mass Salvation” Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, ed Josef Steif and Tristan Tamplin. Open Court, 2008 Pp 221-231
  • Emphases retained. Print, and recommended for BSG through the lens of philosophy/politics, albeit not so much philosophy through the lens of BSG. In the same volume, also recommending the Wretched of New Caprica, by Dan Dinello, for the New Caprica / occupation / Guantanamo / show trials discussion, and The Razor’s Edge, by Sara Livingston, not because I personally endorse Lakoff’s family models but because it’s very good character meta. Also, there’s one article, Dreamers in the Night, that takes the form of a fic, and is Hilarious to find in an anthology like this!
• Hyperlink to Buzzfeed Video. "The Try Guys Take An Ancestry DNA Test" Youtube. Zachary Kornfeld gesturing at a map and exclaming that he hopes his "babies are, fuckin', from everywhere". 20 May 2017. https://youtu.be/N06g2kc1Dxo?t=543. Zach's just a case example of the sentiment I mean. Related, at 2:35, Eugene pointing out that white people keep wanting to be mixed, which is another whole can of worms and also I hate ancestry tests in general so.
• For more on Spock, I've taken a glance at but not actually quoted Lindsdey, Natasha. "Illegible and Unacceptable Representation: The Liminality of Spock in Star Trek (2009)" The Kelvin Timeline of Star Trek: Essays on J.J. Abrams' Final Frontier, ed Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington. McFarland, 2019. Pp. 151-165. https://books.google.com/books?id=9vWKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false it just looks cool
• Moore, Ronald. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Series Bible. NP. 17 December 2003. http://leethomson.myzen.co.uk/Battlestar_Galactica/Battlestar_Galactica_Series_Bible.pdf The Sacred Texts!