Battlestar Galactica and the 2008 Election: Vote or Be Resurrected
Does the 2008 presidential election have something to do with the final 5? Is Battlestar Galactica giving us subtle hints about the last Cylon? Are we about to elect a Cylon into the White House? These questions and others may be answered right here, right now.
(SPOILER ALERT for those who aren't up to BSG season 4)
First of all, we have a secret Cylon aboard the Battlestar Galactica. Colonel Saul Tigh was revealed as a skin job at the end of Season 3, Crossroads Part 2. He also bears a striking resemblance to presidential candidate John McCain – in more ways than one:
  John McCain |
 Colonel Saul Tigh --XO -- Cylon |
| Hot blonde wife | Hot blonde wife |
| Captured in Hanoi, tortured by the Vietnamese | Captured on New Caprica, tortured by the Cylons |
| Naval Aviator | Naval Aviator |
| Grew up in a military family | Grew up in a military family |
| Secretary named Lincoln | Secretary named Kennedy |
| Favors extreme military measures | Favors extreme military measures |
| Occasional ill-considered remarks | Overall gruff manner |
| Creepy old dude | Creepy old dude |
| Horseshoe baldness | Horseshoe baldness |
| Has never publicly said that he's NOT not a Cylon | Secretly a Cylon |
Then, we have a known Cylon -- Number 4, Simon, was revealed in the Season 2 episode, The Farm. Doesn't he kind of resemble another presidential candidate?
 Barack Obama |
 Number 4 -- Simon -- Cylon |
| African American | Caprican American (you know what I mean) |
| Campaigns as a "Washington Outsider" | Only cylon model that has not been used as infiltration within the fleet |
| Plays basketball | Assume he plays basketball - or, er, Pyramid |
| Comforting voice | Comforting voice |
| Has two daughters | Worked at a human/Cylon insemination facility on Caprica |
| Attended Columbia University & Harvard Law School | Model based primarily on human intellectualism and logic |
| Barack frakking kills a Starbucks grande soy latte every morning | One of his models is killed by Starbuck |
| Kinda looks like a Cylon – but he’s so damn inspiring | A known Cylon |
Finally, we're left with one presidential hopeful and one potential Cylon. Are the BSG writers giving us some frakking clues to the identity of the final Cylon?
 Hillary Clinton |
 President Laura Roslin (Cylon?) |
| Wants to be President | Female President (it's space, anything can happen) |
| Hair always perfect in time of crisis | Hair always perfect in time of crisis |
| Important guy named Bill in her life | Important guy named Bill in her life |
| Big on education | Big on education |
| Loves power. I mean she's a woman, right? Am I right? | Loves power. I mean she's a woman, right? Am I right? |
| Lady Suits | Lady Suits |
| Has hope for America's future | Has hope for future on Earth |
| Writes memos on paper | Writes memos on eight-sided paper |
| She's not as hot as Six - but definitely frakkable | Definitely frakkable – the final Cylon? |
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Where is "Scotty" when we need him? He needs to "beam us all up" to save us from our untoward destiny...And I think McShame is more like "Darth Vader" than a cyclon. "DESTROY THEM ALL"! "I AM THEIR WORST ENEMY"!
love it.
obviously these are poking fun at racism and sexism, they aren't racist/sexist jokes.
so much entertainment comes from nerds and their little worlds, by entertainment i mean making fun of them.
Very funny, I'm overjoyed to see my 2 favorite shows cross over. But I would like to make some points.
- Laura Roslin can't be the final Cylon.
- She's too obvious.
- She's in the last supper photo on Sci-Fi.com.
- She's mentioned in the sacred scrolls but not as a demon like Athena was.
- Having a leader that never enters the promised land is in line with Moses and Joseph Smith, both central to religions the show draws influence from.
Everyone on my BSG forum would love to see her and Adama have a happy ending but it just isn't going to happen.
- Roslin's hair isn't great, it's a wig, she's dying of cancer.
- Hillery is Pro-Choice but wants to reduce the number of abortions. Rosline made it illegal to terminate or assist in the termination of a pregnancy. Roslin also feeds on the blood of Cylon Babies.
- Saul Tigh did not grow up in a military family. He's a Cylon, he was synthesized at least 30 years ago.
- McCain has been one of the staunchest voices for anti-torture. Tigh is filled with bile and hatred.
I thought this was brilliant before I went on to read the Obama/Clinton ones. Those two were kinda racist/sexist I guess. Although I understand you probably couldn’t have done just McCain… fair and ballanced, right?
Anyways, I laughed my frakkin ass off when I read the first one! Well played, sir! You recieve a Tip ‘O Teh Hat from me!
by openbotheyes May 2nd at 8:46AM
PSSST! OPEN YOUR LEFT EYE.
Needs Ron Paul = ]
They may not be Cylons, but I'm pretty sure they came up with the Democratic nominating process.
Have a watch of the first ten minutes of this: http://www.kuam.com/archives/streaming/video/newscasts/saturday.wax
If you can understand what the hell they're on about, you may be a Cylon yourself...
This list, it's full of funny. I've wondered that a few times about McCain. It's not nice to compare Roslin and Clinton though, what did Roslin ever do to deserve that?
I'm a surprised that people are calling this sexist and racist. Having seen true examples of both, this doesn't even come close. TDS and Colbert have gone mush further than this. If anything, this doesn't go far enough. For example:
Roslin: Has tried to steal an election.
Clinton: Is trying to steal an election.
Bizarre! Colonel Saul Tigh is played by Michael Hogan, who in real life has a hot, blonde wife!
On women loving power, what's wrong with that?
I'm afraid it's worse than that. Are William Adama and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf the same person? http://imran.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/musharrafadama_.html