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7 Things About Battlestar Galactica For Which I Cannot Suspend My Disbelief
I am halfway through season two of the Sci-Fi Channel's reimagined Battlestar Galactica series and I really, really like it. Yeah, yeah, I know; I'm late to the game.
I have a friend who is congenitally incapable of suspending his disbelief. I'm the opposite. I can fairly effortlessly suspend my disbelief in order to enjoy a movie or TV show. But despite how much I love Battlestar Galactica, even I have trouble accepting some premises of the show:- Rotary-dial style phones with cords. Really? During the past 150,000 years we humans have yet to find a way to disentangle ourselves from wires?
- Paper. Again, while here in the present we're snapping up Kindle Fires like there's no tomorrow, downloading ebooks at a record pace, and clogging up the Internet with emails and status updates, yet the commander of the Battlestar Galactica records his captain's log using pen and paper?
- Eye glasses. I guess opthamology has not progressed beyond LASIK eye surgery over the course of 150,000 years.
- Smoking. And all the indoor smoking laws have been repealed?
- Sir. The salutation applies to both men and women equally and without irony?
- Frack. This one is really frackin' ridiculous. The writers wanted a substitute for the word Fuck because they wanted the characters to be able to swear like sailors but every time I hear Frack--and that's a lot--it sounds so contrived, it annoys.
- Human lookalikes. The Cylons have figured out a way to replicate humans so that they can infiltrate the human race with Cylon/Human replicants yet they only made six varieties?
So they made many versions of the same model--which all look alike--and yet it didn't occur to the Cylons that we humans may grow suspicious when we see we see several versions of the same "person" popping up all over the place?
