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Let me wish Mr. Ford, THE sci-fi/fantasy actor of our age a quick recovery, and celebrate him with one of the most memorable scenes in Cinema I have ever watched from Blade Runner. The android, whom Ford had been chasing throughout the movie saves his life, and faces his certain death with these words that could be coming from a existentialist treatise or a Dylan song: I've… seen things you people wouldn't believe… Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those… moments… will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears… in… rain. Time… to die…

I don’t watch a lot of TV, so I cannot claim that Battlestar Galactica is the only show that deals with deep existential problems of the individual and societies. However I am sure that this is one of the reasons why Battlestar is gathering much attention from outside of your classical sci-fi fan community -see this entry from the Battlestar blog I contribute for law professors interviewing the producers of the show. After a somehow trivial and boring start to the season, the second episode of the final season had everything what this great show is about. You have Gaius transforming into a prophet, conflicting with his own rationality on the way, you have Cylon’s dealing with the perils of democracy when they have to take action on disobedient soldiers, and you have the final 4 Cylons and the humans questioning the meaning of being a human or a Cylon, or if it ever matters, you have personal conflicts between two struggling people of power -the president and the chief of staff,- you h...