Battlestar Characters Draw Parallels with Family Issues

The reinvented series boasts Battlestar characters that have conveyed effectively how it feels to be the lone survivors of humanity, while struggling to search for something that may or may not exist at all. The main concept of Battlestar Galactica is a very straightforward notion – the human race is running for its life, and is searching for earth, a place only described and mentioned in their old writings and beliefs, seriously causing many to doubt its existence or it ever being found. But desperation causes the whole fleet to embark on their only chance for survival. The show has featured common aspects of science fantasy programs but the effect of Galactica goes beyond this. Surprisingly, social issues are tackled within the episodes of the series.

Let’s take the television film Razor as a concrete example. In this release, the past of William Adama and Helena Cain were shown. Adama, a young and excellent Viper pilot then, chanced upon a lab where the Cylon experiment on human beings. Tried as he might, he was not able to extricate the remaining human survivors. This horrible memory stays steadfast in his mind, haunting and troubling him. Meanwhile, Cain is shown as a young girl, who in the confusion brought by the attack of the Cylon inadvertently left her sister behind. Helena never found her sister.

Both these terrible happenings are enough for people to lose hope and cling to despair and self-preservation. In fact, these two people offered very different viewpoints about how best to survive. Cain advised Shaw to she needs to become something like a razor. She should always look forward, paying little attention to consequences of her actions, though it may mean the massacre of innocent civilians. By contrast, Adama cautioned his son never to forget that even though they have arms and weapons, they should never resort to actions and treatment of others as if they were butchers. While Cain seeks self-preservation through abandon of care and emotions for others, Adama sought the same thing by not losing one’s self to the passions and effects of war. In other words, to Cain, since there is a war, it’s alright for others to perish, regardless of their innocence. For Adama, a war is no excuse to act like monsters and mindlessly put into harm those who have no bearing in war.

Another contrast is the story of Adama’s son who took up becoming a Viper pilot in order to simulate what his father, an accomplished Viper pilot in his youth, have accomplished. But even though this was purely voluntary on his son, the father was still blamed on the occasion of death of the other son. Both sons decided to take up the same path trod by their father, and yet in the unfortunate demise of the other, the remaining son blamed it all on their father. The line of influence and forced submission has a gray area, and the one responsible to blame for this incident has divided votes between many viewers.

Indeed, this show has presented more than just entertainment. The great writing along with state-of-the-art technology allows the Battlestar characters to entertain, fascinate and educate.