System 13

Tomorrow is Friday. A month ago ago, I wouldn’t have really cared, other than it was the signal that the weekend was upon us. Now, Friday means something else entirely: a new episode of Battlestar Galactica. My love of the show has grown exponentially since I started watching it. At this point, I’ve watched the miniseries, all of season one, all of season two, and all of the episodes so far in season three. All I’ve got left to watch now are the Webisodes, and I’ll be completely caught up.

I’m curious as to where the storyline is going to go with Colonel Tigh. In episode six of season three, ‘Torn’, Colonel Tigh and Admiral Adama had a bit of a confrontation, when Adama told Tigh to straighten his act up or get the frak off his ship. Tigh responded that the man Adama had known for 30 years didn’t exist anymore, and that Adama wouldn’t be seeing him around anymore. When I first saw this, I thought that perhaps Tigh would commit suicide. That’s rather doubtful though (but not entirely out of the question, I suppose). I’d say that he might get cleaned up and lose the booze, but that’s even more unlikely: the mean alcoholic is basically Tigh’s character. Take away the booze and I think his character would deflate like a popped balloon. Maybe he could lose some of the anger and bile that Adama mentioned, and just be a nice alcoholic? After his fair performance on New Caprica as one of the resistance leaders, I could see him being a decent ship commander, if he’d just lose that crappy attitude towards.. just about everyone.

There’s something else I’m curious about, something which I mentioned in a previous post about Battlestar Galactica: where are they getting their food? In the first two seasons, they had episodes that covered the issue of water, as well as the issue of fuel to keep the fleet moving. They have yet to explain where they’re getting all of that food. Granted, at the start of season three, there’s around 40,000 humans left (as opposed to the 50,000 at the beginning of the show), but still: 40,000 mouths is still quite a lot of mouths to be feeding on a daily basis. They can’t be harvesting it from planets they go by, because any planets that produce livestock / vegetation would be able, in theory, to support human life. In which case, the question of “why didn’t they set up shop there, long before getting to New Caprica?” pops up. Are they growing food on Cloud 9? If the fake sunlight produced there can make folks tan, I suppose it could make plants grow, too. Do they have a whole ship devoted to raising cattle or chickens, KFC style? I can’t even really think of what they’ve eaten throughout the show. There have been a few scenes in the mess hall area on Galactica, where it showed people eating, but I can’t remember what it was they were chomping on. Anyone know off hand? Or perhaps, judging by how often characters are shown doing so, most of the people in the fleet don’t eat, and instead, exist solely by drinking whiskey? In which case… where are they getting all of the grain to make said whiskey?