Really interesting clip: I agree that the race of the liberated pilot Bulldog is key here, partly because there are no other black pilots in BSG, and his loyalty and authenticity as a human are immediately in question from the beginning to the end of this ...
MIchael: such excellent questions! I do think that there is a strong move towards essentialism in BSG, but that there are a few escapes from the binarism of cylon/human status: as you point out, one of these is through miscegenation, or rather it's p ...
I am watching the DVD sets of "The Shield" after never having watched a single episode live, and am noticing that the recaps tell the viewer how to watch the upcoming episode at the expense of the coherence of the preceding episode. Derek put it ...
I really like this idea of diagnostics and interpretation filtered through television watching: a bunch of white coated doctors watching the same small screen and talking about it could equally be the MRI screening or television watching scenes in this se ...
Birgit: I also noticed that the crew of the Pegasus is not racially diverse in the same way as Galactica, and that that seems to be of a piece with its masculinist, brutal, and uber-military culture. The Pegasus also had a female commander who I remembere ...
I love this video, Tim. So glad you posted it. I am definitely going to use it in my class, I'm just not sure how yet. What i like about it is the way it shows how new media industries like Google still feel an urge to explain their products to poten ...
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Really interesting clip: I
MIchael: such excellent
I am watching the DVD sets
I really like this idea of
Birgit: I also noticed that
I love this video, Tim. So
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