Why the hell do I like Galactica so much?
Yes, yes, indeed, there are few gorgeous hunks there, but guys, that's not a primary reason, believe me.
What I like is that it is basically a story about - difference.
And learning to accept it and live with it.
Cylons are the metaphor for that difference. I have a crush on them, even on Tricia Helfer (what an appearance, simply WOW). I like their ambiguous attitude towards humans. Hating and fearing them on one side, admiring them and wanting to be like them on the other. Reminds me of ambiguity I as young gay lad felt towards my own cousins and straight friends during college years (there were days when I thought I would gladly spend my whole life in a lie, just to avoid being rejected by close ones).
Second fact I like is that, unlike in many other Sci Fi series, humans are portrayed very realistically and definitely not superior to their enemies. They are dirty, weak, frightened, drunk, vain, lying, cruel, superficial, violent, vengeful and quite often treacherous. Just as in a real life. And quite often they have no idea whatsoever what to do in that middle of everything called the Universe.
And yes, they got their asses whipped pretty well and bright red by Cylons at the very beginning of the series. No more we-can-do-everything style officers, like Kirk, Spock or that annoying ubermensch Picard with his notorious and sometimes even more annoying pet laptop, Data.
Thirdly, there is no classical good-versus-bad dichotomy. Everyone has bright and dark moments, on all sides. Just like in real life. And at some point you can hardly differentiate humans from their designed nemesis, the Cylons. Not that their differences ceased to exist. Simply that their similarities (imperfections, one would say) at some point begun to outnumber the differences. And that is another correspondence with the straight-versus-queer dichotomy in the real world.
Yap, there are few significant differences and there is no point denying or neglecting them. But there are much more similarities among folks in general, both straight and queer, and they are worth noticing too.
