Life after Tragedy

This weekend was the anniversary of 9/11 and the terrorist attacks on the world trade center, which of course means that I'm going to talk about Battlestar Galactica. Stay with me here.

Last week I rewatched the miniseries of the new, re-imagined series, and then, because I'm a huge geek, I watched the entire thing AGAIN with the commentary track. The commenters, in this case, were the three creators of the show—the writer, the producer, and the director—and their comments were incredibly...