I knew going into watching the entire series of the new Battlestar Galactica that I’d be dealing with the issues of the day. I had heard about the parallels to the Iraq war and such, but I wasn’t prepared for episode 3.16, “Dirty Hands.” It’s not often that a television show surprises me, but this episode did it. I was slapped in the face by what seemed like an hour long dramatization of Das Kapital. A work of Science Fiction finally did what the genre has always promised: It made me think about our world, right here, right now.
Spoilers below the fold.
