Back in January, I was musing upon the idea of making a BSG-themed playlist for how I saw 2022 possibly progressing:
“What’s next…?”
Hopefully not…
I could actually start a thread on BSG tracks on where I think things will go from here…
Even as recently as January, things felt like they were still sane…
Anybody who was paying attention as early as December of 2020 could see that things were building… Though few could have accurately predicted how fast things would accelerate to where they were by the end of February…
By February, things were beginning to become very clear to everyone…
Most major conflicts in our past have involved some sort of alliance that moved things towards conflict becoming a certain reality at a glacial rate…
I don’t really know why this one stood out when I was coming up with this theoretical playlist – maybe it was because we were unsure about who was going to ally themselves with Russia…
The year isn’t done, so a lot of my commentary can be viewed as contaminated by contemporary events at the time of this writing…
This was an interesting scene in the series: volunteers were sought for a mission that had a very low probability of success or survival…
This piece consumes time at a rate that’s not readily noticed; there’s a jumble of themes and levels of urgency which are chaotic, but organized somewhat…
Ruins… Social? Economic? Legal? Moral? Physical? Emotional?
Who knows?
If you understand the story arc, then you can appreciate the sadness of the realization of repercussions from one’s actions when things go too far…
…Just when the maelstrom of action and emotion is over, melancholy whispers in…
The Temple of Five (pay attention at this point)
One of the things that always has been concerned is the potential for faith-based extremism to become the order that is sought out from the erosion of the status quo and the turmoil it brings. We saw this in Afghanistan following the Afghan-Soviet war and subsequent rise of the Taliban…
The Cult of Baltar (tragedies bring out crazies)
Baltar’s character arc was fascinating in that I initially hated him but eventually found his redemption amazing and yet disturbing as he became the charismatic cult leader… See my thoughts on religious extremism above…
We shall see… but I am looking east…all the way east… towards a new day tomorrow.
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