Hitchhiking

I thought I knew what a weird book was until I started reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The book is actually pretty interesting so far, albeit very dry. The book comments a lot on how dumb people are, like when the politician is tricked into lying in front of the steamroller himself.

The main character is extremely mediocre and plain as an individual, which really adds to the whole sarcastic feel of the book. No one in the book really shows any rational emotion, and it just gives the book this silly, sarcastic feel as a whole. So far the book is very dry yet somehow funny, and it's a very compelling read. Honestly, I haven't reached much of the book yet, but what I have read is pure, sarcastic genius.

I'm really excited to see where the book goes and I think it brings up some questions about how smart we really are as a species. I'll see ya'll later I have to write my amazing Shrek x Space Jam x Star Trek fanfiction.

Sad-lestar Galactica (I know this pun is bad don't judge)

Battlestar Galactica is a very unique series in my opinion. It’s unique in that there’s not a whole lot of hope.

The story starts kind of abruptly, and it keeps that pace throughout the show. Within an instant and with no real plot development, all humans (except for the ones on the mythical “Earth”) are dead except for 50,000 survivors. This does a really good job of simulating how the situation would progress in real life, with noone having any time to break down or stop to think, lest they want to lose their life. The series does not shy away from death and hopelessness, and uses dramatic irony to exemplify that. Even the one semi-hopeful scene, where the commander claims he knows where Earth is, you realize that there is a cylon agent they don’t know about lurking in their midst.

Besides the pure hopelessness and all of that good jazz, the show is also unique in how it brings up a unique moral question, should we even be saved as a species? The show prompts a very deep moral debate on the subject, which leaves the viewer with doubts about their own species and their intrinsic value. I have heard the series also shows the story from the Cylons’ perspective later in the series, which shows you the other side of the debate straight up. This presentation does something a lot of shows don’t, in that it presents both sides of an issue rather than just the one they know the viewer is most likely to hold.

Galactica is a very unique and morally deep show, despite how it may look on the surface. It isn’t just another space shoot-em-up, but rather a depiction of a possible scenario if some omniscient power decided to take our fate into its own hands, and rather we are even deserving of salvation.