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Asking the Wrong Questions — Hal Duncan writes about Battlestar Galactica , and, as on most topics, does so intelligently, forcefully, and at great length.  Lots of interesting ideas here: some more exploration of what it means that the show's premise maps more accurately to the Holocaust than to 9/11 (I hadn't, for example, thought of Gaeta as embodying the cliché of the victim made monstrous by his victimhood, mainly because I was too busy being aggravated by the fact that the show's one and only acknowledged homosexual character was being depicted as a villain who kept seeking out powerful, ...

Hal Duncan on Battlestar Galactica
The Wertzone — Hal Duncan analyses the thematic problems with the new Battlestar Galactica in a long (long) essay here. It has its flaws - he spells a lot of characters' names wrong and seems to think you cannot watch the show on a 'literal' level - but some of the points are very thought-provoking, particularly the analogy about the Fleet allowing Cylons to settle amongst them would be like Israel letting high-ranking Nazi leaders settle in their country after 1949. Not going to happen. Ever.