MAN-MADE MONSTERS #29: Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 142 minutes
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All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again...
Alex Ayling and Ben Travis join Mike for a deep dive into the steamy TV space opera that captivated sci-fi fans throughout the 2000s with its devious cyborgs and jaw dropping plot twists: Battlestar Galactica! So say we all!
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| 0:00.0 | In 2003, Ronald D. Moore resurrected a camp sci-fi-seventies TV show called Battlestar Galactica, |
| 0:32.0 | but he made it darker, grittier, far more relevant to a paranoid post-9-11 culture. |
| 0:40.3 | The conceit was simple. Artificially intelligent robots known as silons were created by man. |
| 0:48.0 | The silons evolved to eventually look and sound human. They rebelled, wiping out most of the human race, with a few human |
| 0:56.8 | survivors fleeing on spaceships in search of a new home. There are 12 different |
| 1:03.1 | humanoid Cylon models. Some are known. Some live amongst the human survivors in secret. |
| 1:10.7 | And they have a plan. |
| 1:15.1 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of man-made monsters, and we discuss Ronald |
| 1:20.4 | D. Moore's Dark Existentials sci-fi Odyssey, Battlestar Galactica. |
| 1:35.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. |
| 1:38.0 | My name is Mike Munser, and as ever, I am your host. |
| 1:41.9 | In this podcast, we explore and dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre, one subgenre at a time. We are currently in the |
| 1:45.1 | middle of our 11th series exploring the evolution of man-made monsters. And this is part 29. In this |
| 1:52.2 | week's episode, we are tackling an epic five-season television show. We are going to be talking |
| 1:58.6 | about Battlestar Galactica, the show that began with a |
| 2:01.8 | miniseries in 2003 and then was followed up by four full seasons leading up to 2009. This will be a |
| 2:09.0 | spoilerific discussion. We will be trying to tackle this entire show, including its ending, |
| 2:14.8 | within this discussion. So if you don't want to be spoiled on a show from 20 |
| 2:19.1 | years ago, give it a watch, I guess, before you listen to this conversation, although it may |
| 2:24.7 | take you a while. There's a lot to get through. And there's a lot to discuss. I've tried this |
| 2:29.7 | before a couple of times. We did an episode on Buffy. We've done an episode on The X-Files. |
| 2:34.0 | It's always a challenge covering an entire TV show in one, two-hour discussion, but let's give it a damn good go. Joining me to discuss Battlestar Galactica. I've got two returning guests with me, both Battlestar Galactica fans. So first of all, a big hello to Alex Aling. Hello, Alex. Hi, Mike. Hello. It's been |
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