So Say We All

It's a well-known fact, that I'm a little into the "genre" (fantasy/sci-fi) and have been for some time. I been leaning more towards the fantasy side of things in recent years for two primary reasons; the first being that reading sci-fi books gets me down since we are sorely lacking things that we were promised by this time in our existence. The second reason is more personal, and mainly deals with my loss of innocence in 1997 and again in 1999

Pictured the Death of Innocence.

However, this does not mean I shun sci-fi like. Quite the contrary, I just need something to keep my attention the way lightsabers use to. That something happens to be Battlestar Galatica, the re-imagined series that started in 2003, which I watched religiously until the middle of the 3rd season. I really don't recall why I stopped watching, I think the writers did something that pissed me off and I just lost interest. I honestly don't remember but I decided to start watching it again and have started to realize a few things. The Cylons really want the humans to live, because the humans are clearly morons.

See all those toasters in the back, they have our best interest in mind

For those of you who haven't seen the show, I would suggest you try to change that. It basically revolves around the fact that humanity created Cylons (the tin cans up there in the back) to labor for them, the Cylons rebel, there's a war, humanity is almost completely wiped out save 47,581 survivors who are looking for the legendary 13 colony of Earth. Oh and the Cylons look like us now(The two chicks in the middle of the picture), which kinda adds a whole interesting twist to the show, and proves my point.

Part of the way through the first episode we find out the Cylons look like humans, to the point where you can't tell them apart. A main plot device running through the first season is trying to get a cylon detector up and running, so blood samples can be analyzed by this man.

Gaius Baltar, dick.

Mr. Baltar is a brilliant man who is plagued by guilt because he inadvertently helped the Cylons destroy humanity. During the series he also receives and acts on advice he receives from a woman he knows to be a Cylon. The leaders of the exiled humans make mention of how they do not trust him time and time again but they give him important jobs like creating and operating the Cylon detector, or being the Vice-President. This results in Gaius betraying humanity time and time again (they have no idea of course). At one point the commander of the fleet expresses, to Gaius and several others, he doesn't think the Gaius is being completely honest with them, and then suddenly drops it. It's like they know the story needs to  move along, and the only way to do that is to ignore a the sketchy actions of this guy.

I don't think I noticed this as much the first time I watched the series, but after having gone through the first 2 seasons in a weekend, I have to say he throws up so many red flags that it's astonishing he's not in the brig, or thrown out an airlock after the third episode. Anyway, because of all his lying and general sketchiness, he directly puts the entire fleet as risk several times, and the only reason they don't die is because the Cylons, intervene in some way or another; either by telling them that they are going to find a planet that will show them the way to earth, to not blowing up the only Battlestar left when they have several opportunities.

Two of these women aren't Cylons and all have been on the main ship in the series

There's no apparent reason for this, unless there is, I wouldn't know for sure since I have only gotten to the middle of season 3. From what I can tell, the Cylons want the humans to find earth as much as the humans do. Which doesn't make sense, considering they nuked humanity's homeworlds with intent of eradication the race in the first episode.

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but, it just goes to show; that if a show is generally entertaining and awesome, you will overlook the apparent flaws in the writing.

My Breakfast Story

For years I though the phrase "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" was a load of crap. To me lunch has always been the most important meal, because during lunch people don't judge you when you eat a hero sandwich full of various deli meats, like they do at breakfast. Breakfast has always been an appetizer to lunch and dinner in my eyes. Breakfast has remained an afterthought for many years, that was of course before I was married.... My wife is a stickler for healthy eating and that means the days of eating a whole banana cream pie, and skipping breakfast are gone. I feel like Cliff Huxtable, just with less money and a better fashion sense.

Cliff Couldn't pull off the Poka-dots

Part of my wife's Make Me Healthy campaign is to get me to start eating breakfast, and this would have been fine if it was awesome breakfast like  bacon, ham, sausage, and eggs on buttered toast, but apparently those items aren't healthy (who knew). There aren't actually a whole lot of tasty things that are healthy for you, and this makes me very upset, since the alternative is me spending my mornings eating peanut butter and rice cakes. Suffice to say, I was very pissy during breakfast consumption, until...I was exposed to homemade smoothies. Gasp! Could I have found a way to make something delicious and healthy? You bet'cha! The idea that I can throw various items into a blender and create something both filling and yummy baffles me, how could I have not known about this in my 28 years of life? The trick of course is to put awesome things into the blender to make something equally awesome, I have only been experimenting with fruits and yogurt but I hope to move into the complex carbs and meat; basically a breakfast soup. 

Like this

Needless to say I have a new goal in my life, create the perfect breakfast smoothie comprised of meats and other fantastic savory items. I'm sure that this will be a long journey full of mystery and excitement, but I plan to trek on until I have discovered the perfect mixture of items that I can drink.

Time Travel

88mph...I'm sure many of you know what the means, and for those of you that don't allow me to explain. There's a little, relatively unknown, trilogy of movies that heavily feature a DeLorean, a flux capacitor and the phrase "Great Scott". I am of course talking about Back To The Future, which I feel opened a generation to the idea a time travel.

Well the idea that you could be clothed to do it

Arguably Back to the Future is one of the greatest movies about time travel of all times simply because Doc Brown is actually concerned about messing with the timeline (until the end of course). This brings me to what's always bothered me about any time travel movie, it's that fact that many of them are about stopping some future event from transpiring, or fixing a passed mistake and no one giving the shit about the ramifications or their actions on other people.

"Oh well, so we have three balls now"

Take the newest entry into the time travel movies coming out, Looper. For those of you that didn't click that link let me give you a quick idea of what happens. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a time hit-man, who has to kill his future self (Bruce Willis), basically Willis is sent back in time to be offed by Levitt. This doesn't work out of course and Willis gets a gun and basically turns into, what I assume is a future version of, John McClane. Then he runs around his past destroying things, and throwing gold bars around.

There are already several issues here, but I'm only going to deal with the most aggravating...the guy is shooting himself. I'm not sure if anyone realizes this, but it means he's gone through this exact scenario before. We can assume this is a face judging by the trailer, as Willis knows exactly how to startle his younger self(throwing a gold bar). So clearly he's already experienced the exact same thing when he is younger, and grew up knowing that he was going to be sent back in time and have to fight his younger self and still did nothing to avoid it. On top of it, what does Willis hope to accomplish by killing or maiming his younger self since he will deal with the repercussions of the injuries, or ya know die. So he's going to rampage through Levitt's time destroying things and altering the timeline for everyone he comes in contact with, not only potentially changing his life but the lives of everyone else. What about those poor people in the back ground there, walking around minding their own business?

That dude would have cured cancer is this explosion hadn't happened

Who cares, Bruce Gordon-Levitt isn't dead, even thought it would have absolutely no effect on his younger self, since Joseph Willis-McClane is going to grow up to be Bruce Gordon-Levitt anyway.I assume the movie's name means that the main character is constantly repeating the exact same series of events through out his life knowing he's destine to fight himself...which now that I think of it might be a really cool movie, John McCalne vs John McCalne.

This type of stuff runs through every movie with time travel...the exception being Harry Potter and only because Harry uses the best movie bandage next to R2D2...magic.