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Does that headline seem a little overblown? Well, don’t worry, it’s not from me. But it’s entirely possible that in the wake of Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts’s special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant following Ted Kennedy’s death, you’ve seen a few similar headlines around the blogosphere. I know I have.  Not shockingly, they’re all from liberals.  Now I’m not going to say that liberals shouldn’t be upset about the Brown victory. After all, if you subscribe to that particular political philosophy, then Brown’s election is a stinging rebuke, and will almost certainly derail the “progressive agenda” for the time being.  That’s a hard pill for some people to swallow.  However, I think that a little perspective is needed.

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Note: This post was originally dated July 22nd, 2009, but in light of the series’s debut last Friday, I feel obligated to repost.

I’m a big fan of Ronald D. Moore’s Battlestar Galactica, which finished its run on the channel formerly known as Sci-Fi earlier this year.  Having spent years wrapped up in the drama unfolding in Admiral Adama’s ragtag fleet and in desperate need of a quality science fiction story, I was anxious to see what Moore and company were going to do with their recently commissioned but long-gestating prequel series Caprica.  Billed as more of a political and family drama than a space story, Caprica promised to be a very different experience from its predecessor.

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