While I suspect that the only folks willing to read this post are under 30 and occasionally exhibit -- if honest with themselves - what Jon Stewart might label "douchebag-type" behavior, I wanted to memorialize my 12-hour BSG catch-up session before the advent of the final episodes commencing January 16.  I got a lot more out of this series than the West Wing.  Or most anything on pay cable, excepting, perhaps, Showtime's The Brotherhood.

BSG explores a lot of difficult moral questions.  One of the writers' favorite themes is to challenge us to answer questions like:

"how many lives would you risk to save a friend?"
"how many lives would you end to preserve a foreign relations strategy?"
"how bad does your opponent have to be before you steal an election?"
"would you sacrifice yourself to save someone who could help your country more?"

Or how about this one:

"would you play golf and side step issues to preserve an optimal foreign relations/public relations strategy even if it meant 100s would die?"

Maybe it's worth it.  I don't have the big picture.

Ron D Moore, I shall miss you when you're gone.