![]() One day, the Cylons return to launch a surprise nuclear attack, destroying virtually all of human civilization. ” When the show begins, it’s been forty years since the last Cylon War, when robots rebelled against their makers, then disappeared into space. Like much of post-9/11-era media, BSG is a story about an “us” and a “them. Meanwhile, in a distant future-past, the terrible blankness of space loomed-all alien and deeply familiar at once. In New York, corpses were hauled into a refrigerated truck. We watched death tolls around the world rise, while, on President Roslin’s white board, the survivor count steadily ticked down. As our timelines filled with people excitedly using the word “apocalypse,” we watched the last human survivors flee a nuclear holocaust into space. And so my partner and I spent the early days of the pandemic marathoning Battlestar Galactica. Since we were locked in our apartment with little else to do, I was effectively out of excuses. Still, I knew I ought to try to get past the first two episodes, as tiresome as it all seemed.Īs luck would have it, made the show available to stream for free at the end of March-just a few weeks after the stay-at-home orders came down. I couldn’t imagine what I might learn from it that I hadn’t already seen in every other iteration of the “is she a sexy robot, or just Asian?” storyline. That might have been part of the reason I didn’t watch the show for years, though friend after friend recommended it to me. I didn’t watch the show when it first aired, but I’d heard about some of the controversy around the choice to cast Boomer, who is secretly a robot (a Cylon, in the show’s parlance) as Asian. I’m talking about the character played by Korean Canadian actress Grace Park on the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica reboot of the early aughts. I knew Boomer before I knew Boomer, if you know what I mean.
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