( SG-1 TEAM: yay!; Clichés: Boo!; The Chinese abandoned footbinding and I wish writers for visual media (tv, movies) would, too. )

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( Sadly, Caldwell didn't take over operations on SGA after the alien possession crapisode. )

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( Lots of murky and interesting political and philosophical ground to cover on BSG. )

The idea that humanity's two main contenders for leader are each driven by a religious mania of different stripes but both of which threaten the continuation of a free people is stark. There's an analogy here to our own situation in the real world that my brain is trying to devise but isn't coming up with. The willingness to sign away our rights, to yield to fanatical demands of people using a crisis to impose their own ways of life on everyone, is all too familiar.

**ETA: I realized on re-watching again last night that it was Admiral Adama rather than Baltar who steered Roslin.