Dirty Hands
I had been looking forward to the latest episode of BSG, written as it was by two of my favourite writers of this, and other, series - and recent episodes have not been as provocative as one would like. It didn’t disappoint, or it did, but by no means in the sense of being dull. (For those who haven’t seen the episode, and who might prefer to watch before reading the rest of this post, it’s all up on dailymotion, the first part here.)
As Az pointed out - and in reference to the sequence from which the above screencap is taken - it repeats the sense of Tyrol’s ‘Berkeley’ speech of a previous episode. Yet, this time as the literal tragedy of what happens to “bodies upon the gears”, as the body destroyed by machinery. Significantly though, on this occasion, it’s not a strike against the cylon Occupation that is elicited by this moment, but a general strike against the emerging and normalised working conditions across the human fleet. And, its attendant class structure. 
