Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica
Investigating Flesh, Spirit, and Steel
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All of this has happened before and it will happen again. Someone already wrote in here: this book is amazingly uneven.
There are some AMAZING essays around here, mixed with some that does not have the same analytical sophistication.
I still do not like the introduction and the final chapter. I think if you don't like the show or, if you want to criticize this BSG in a collection of academic essays like this, you have to do a better intellectual investment than just pouring out you didn't like the show just because it ended badly.
I didn't like the end of BSG and I agree with the editors in all of their statements, but I think these articles (and that one by Ryman) are kind of out of place. But I MUST point out those essays that I did love. Here they are:
“Frak Me Reproduction, Gender, Sexuality”, by LORNA JOWETT;
“Real-imagining Terror in Battlestar Galactica Negotiating Real and Fantasy in Battlestar Galactica's Political Metaphor”, by STEVEN RAWLE;
“Butch Girls, Brittle Boys and Sexy, Sexless Cylons Some Gender Problems in Battlestar Galactica”, by MATTHEW JONES;
“Sci-Fi Ghettos Battlestar Galactica and Genre Aesthetics”, by SÉRGIO DIAS BRANCO
I believe if you like BSG and you want to read something interesting about the show, you should read this collection of essays I pointed out. It's a nice book.