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[pocochina]

BSG is another show that has been pretty formative for me, though unlike AtS, I have kind of been able to process and mostly have good feelings toward it.

One influence that BSG has had on how I watch shows is that I apply the Laura Roslin Test to fictional 'verses now to see how much credibility I give the major conflict. The Laura Roslin test is

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[jedi_of_urth]

I don’t mind the ‘worthy of survival’ angle exactly, at least not on a character level. That a character would worry about there being more to living than simple survival works; that *they* feel they must have to earn the right to have the life they have. However, I think it’s another of those things that the show got twisted around. That it was applied to the humans as a species (what remained of it) but NOT to the Cylons. Which is the biggest problem with me having sympathy for the Cylons, the humans on the verge of extinction still worry about such things and the Cylons...don’t.

When it comes to the humans we see them debate what morality they will compromise in the name of survival. In my opinion they probably hold onto it too much, but there is a reasonable side to it that if you completely sacrifice what makes you human fighting your enemies it’s harder to put a stop to doing it again anyone that becomes an enemy; so I’m not saying they could or should have gone to a complete ‘survival at any cost’ mentality, but over time we got less and less of a realization what the stakes were in trying to hold onto virtues in the face of such an enemy.

But no one asks the Cylons “Even if somehow we *did* deserve this, what does that make you?” No one internally, externally, or over time apparently among the writers question whether the *Cylons* deserved to survive. Oh no, the humans might use a biological weapon that could kill off a significant chunk of the Cylons; honestly, the Cylon race would probably survive and still be better off than the human race is at the moment; BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CYLONS DID. Do I know that that makes it right? Do I know if it’s what they should have done? Do I know what I would think if I was there, or even from here? I’m not saying that; but while I think MoS understood the questions but was unwilling to realize it, I think by s4 the show really lost any interest to the point of losing sight of the questions.