…SPOILER WARNING…finish Battlestar Galactica Season 2 before reading this post

Battlestar Galactica’s re-imagining has been a like a sci-fi wet dream in this Star Trek-deprived age.  With a staff comprised of almost all former Star Trek writers, Battlestar Galactica has improved on many of the sci-fi staples, streamlining technobabble to a need-to-know basis and focusing on creating a simple and believable fantasy world dealing with real issues.  The show’s catastrophic opening shows the robot Cylons wiping out almost the entire human civilization in a 9/11 worst-case-scenario allegory.  The show’s War of Terrorism allegory gets flipped when the remaining humans find a habitable planet, only to be conquered by the Cylons.  For a year, the Cylons occupy the humans who, in turn, launch a violent resistance, blowing up buildings with humans and Cylons.  The cut and dry Cylons are the terrorists gets ripped apart when now the Cylons are the occupier and the humans are the "freedom fighters."  Suddenly, the show complicates its own message  - what makes terrorists and what makes heroes?  And this is just a sample of what makes Battlestar Galactica the deepest space opera in the galaxy.  Politics and religion makes for greatest mindless entertainment.