There Is a Hell, Halleluyah!

So, as it turns out, what I said in the last post is wrong. There is a Hell in the official religion of the twelve colonies and they have referred to it during the previous episodes o the show, I have simply never noticed it. Stupid me. But seriously, I googled the damn thing and it didn’t give a single page on the subject. I didn’t even see any Battlestar Wiki pages on the list of results. And I cannot search Battlestar Wiki anyway, because the site is blocking my port. Or my port is blocking the site. Or something of the sort. It’s too complicated for my environmentalist mind to comprehend.

So sorry for the baseless accusations.

I repeat: silly me.

Now I’m off to do more useless things until it is time to go to French class. French rewls. 8)

What the Hell Is Going On in Battlestar Galactica?

I noticed a peculiar thing while watching Battlestar Galactica some time ago. It was the beginning of the first episode of the Pegasus/Admiral Cain story arc. Starbuck had just returned from an unauthorized recon mission in the Blackbird, and the Vipers from both Galactica and Pegasus, who had been on the verge of opening fire against each other, now turned towards Starbuck who, at that point was an unrecognized intruder. After clearing up some misunderstandings Starbuck sent a text message to Apollo saying, “What the hell is going on in here?”

That message is what caught my attention, or to be more precise, it was the word “hell” in it. If I have missed something very important or am yet to see it (I’m still in the middle of season 3 with watching BSG), then smack me in the head with a rake, but at this moment I am definite I have never seen or heard anything in the show refer to a Hell, or even a similar concept. Why would Starbuck use or even know of a word so tightly connected to the Christian religion and the idea of chaos and havoc (which would imply the use of it in such a context). I find it highly illogical that “what the hell” should exist as an expression in the Battlestar Galactica universe unless there is a religious base to it, one that we are yet to be demonstrated (unless, I repeat, I have missed it somehow).

I did some googling on it, but didn’t get an answer, instead I happened upon a bunch of spoilers which, from my brief glance, failed to explain this issue.

This might seem like something insignificant and nitpicky, but I like nitpicking, and I feel kind of proud to have noticed a little thing like that. So go ahead and hit me in the head with a rake if you like, I won’t feel any different for it.