Webloggin » (Audio) Forget 24; I’m sticking with Battlestar Galactica!

The following short audio clips demonstrate why 24 pales in comparison to Battlestar Galactica

Cylon, er terrorist sympathizers! :

We shoot people like you for treason! :

This is war, not dueling pistols at dawn! :

I understand why conservatives flock to the TV show 24. Terrorists threaten America, government agent hunts down and kills the terrorists without mercy, warrant or any of the other moronic crap that is being spewed from the left, the U.S. wins. Hooray!

There you go, you have just heard the only redeeming quality of 24 and it didn’t take a whole season to get the point!

That aside, the latest season of 24 exemplifies why I personally think the show sucks. It seems that with all good things there is an evil left waiting to creep in and wreck the game for everyone. Let’s see here, the current season features a bumbling (and likely corrupt) President who has a strange likeness to President Nixon. The President’s administration and other areas of the government are infiltrated by traitorous personnel who put personal gain ahead of national security (a recurring theme for 24). A sniper kills the black ex-president who just so happens to be one of the few likeable characters on the show and a 5’9’’ Jack Bauer always seems to kill everyone who gets in his way.

If that isn’t unbelievable enough, Jack Bauer, a suspect in the ex-President’s murder, simply walks into the apartment at the scene where the ex-President was shot right under the noses of the oblivious secret service, police, FBI etc. Jack actually remains undetected by the various secret service agents and accesses the ex-President’s personal computer as he searches for clues as to who set him up for the killing. But wait there’s more, the terrorists are Russian this time around; it seems that picking on Islamic terrorists is getting a bit politically incorrect. And, let us not forget the relative calm of a 15 year old girl who was abused physically by a bomb making terrorist as she learns that Bauer is going to hand her back over to her terrorist abuser in the name of national security. Yeah, that’s believable. Of course she shoots the terrorist before the handoff in a scene reminiscent of season one. Duh.

Not only is this the stupidest story line I have ever heard it is a complete waste of time. Yet you hear raves about the show on conservative talk radio every day. I’m sorry but conservatives are supposed to be smarter than this garbage!

Contrast 24 to a really well written and excellent remake of the 70’s sci-fi drama Battlestar Galactica. Before anyone rolls their eyes or writes off the show you should see it first. The sci-fi channel has a history of pro-military shows such as Stargate (not Stargate Atlantis though). Battlestar is no exception and has very little in common with its earlier sibling from the past.

Short fill in; the show features an intergalactic war between Cylon robots and their human creators sometime in the future. The humans have fled their various home worlds that were destroyed by a sneak nuclear attack that was pulled off with the help of robotic infiltrators who have now evolved to mimic humans among various other menacing robotic forms. The Cylons are in pursuit of all remaining humans in an effort to wipe the race out so they can take their place as God’s children. The Galactica is a space based military ship akin to a giant aircraft carrier that defends a fleet of civilian ships as they run from the Cylons in search of the original home world called Earth.

(TMT – updated for 2006) The 2005 season upped the ante with parallels to the war on terror. Episode #2, Epiphanies (downloadable for $2 on itunes) features a rebellion and sabotage by liberal Cylon sympathizers who blame the military for engaging the enemy after being attacked. The sympathizers have a plan to force the pro-military government to surrender in an effort to gain peace with the murderous Cylons. The best part is that all the Cylon sympathizers look like libs, act like libs and think like libs. Their spokesperson is a limp lipped moron who plays the part excellently.

The sympathizers base their surrender theory on the concept that the military is causing the robots to hate them because they won’t accept their own demise without putting up a fight. The show’s mimicry of the blame America first crowd echoes loud and clear with the viewer as the Cylons play the lib sympatizers for the fools they are. In the meantime the Cylons aquire a nuclear bomb; so much for being the misunderstood friends of the hapless sympatizers.

The military starts hunting down the rebel sympathizers and take a no holds barred approach to quashing the uprising by the traitorous sympathizers who among other things form protests, sabotage survival ships and work along side Cylon agents.

The excellent part is that the military characters are the hero’s of the show, They understand the price of freedom and show little mercy for an enemy who brings nothing but a desire to wipe out the human race. Lines like, “we shoot traitors like you”, are par for the course. Simply excellent!!!

So as I say, ditch 24 and watch a real show on the sci-fi channel every Friday night! Battlestar Galactica is truly a 5 star television series.

In a related yet real life article – Stop by the anti-idiotarian rottweiller and read “Confronting the Religion of Peace”. This article is about the choices we have when being confronted with a war against people who practice hate under the guise of a religion.

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