That would be Starbuck if you have been watching the Sci Fi channel on Friday nights.

Enclave takes a bit of a break to talk about what I believe is one of the best shows on television, Battlestar Galactica. His sentiments about the show’s core is basically one of the reason’s I keep going back to it.

The religious imagery was much more rich than typically portrayed on TV. The mix of machine and living tissue on the ships of the Cylon battle fleet conveys incarnation in its most ambiguous sense. The scene where one of the dying Cylon “Sixes” “Eights”–shot by a centurion while trying to disconnect a “hybrid” from the basestar–bleeds into the hybrid’s immersion tank seemingly making the latter give a profound revelation to Starbuck (”the missing Three will give you the Five who come from the home of the Thirteenth”) reminds me of baptism and blood atonement. It also reminds me of the end of Pan’s Labyrinth where where a dying Ofelia bleeds onto the cave altar, which opens up either a portal to the underworld and her reunion with her family or her fantasy that she has done so.

It never ceases to amaze me that the “toasters” worship one God while the humans worship the Gods. You don’t see that kind of boldness in television. Ever.

If you haven’t seen BG, I cannot recommend it enough.