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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Final Comments, I hope, on BSG

Sunday, March 22, 2009

It goes without saying – but, of course, I’ll say it anyway – that no one would have been satisfied with the conclusion to “Battlestar Galactica,” regardless of what that conclusion was or could have been. There are, no doubt, about as many complaints about the conclusion as there were viewers. Some people who didn’t [...]

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… And How It Ended

Saturday, March 21, 2009

For the benefit of those who haven’t had the chance to see the finale, sarcastic comments ‘below the fold.’

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How BSG Must End and How It Will End

Friday, March 20, 2009

How it must end:
(1) As Adama’s volunteer force attacks the Cylon colony ship, the fleet renews civil war, this time attempting to seize control of the basestar. Both battles are catastrophic and everyone dies down to the last person, human and Cylon alike;
(2) Cylons or humans from a previous cycle of history miraculously and mysteriously [...]

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A bit more

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Lest I gave the impression in my previous post that I think that the work being conducted in philosophy departments, I should point out that I have found much rewarding work that is called “philosophy” (even if I doubt its status as such). The failures of these works point to this importance difference between the [...]

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Vulgar pseudo-Hegelians

Saturday, March 7, 2009

(I started writing this a few days ago after that fiasco of a discussion at Crooked Timber, but then opted against it – what is there to be said that hasn’t already been said… and ignored or dismissed? A recent “poll” on a philosophy gatekeeping website on the biggest embarrassment to the discipline changed my [...]

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