In the late ‘70s while I was in high school, it wasn’t that unusual to see “Clapton is God” scrawled on a wall. Less frequently seen1 was the message “Dylan is God.” As my musical horizons expanded after high school, my respect for Bob Dylan grew and I began to think of him as a sort of Ur-Creative, pulling songs out of the collective unconsciousness. So from that perspective, the Battlestar Galactica producers’ choice to use Dylan’s song “All Along the Watchtower” as a critical plot element seems perfect2. Read the rest of this entry »
- But more plausible for my specific musical/religious tastes [↩]
- The specific details of how the song was used in Battlestar Galactica have been detailed extensively on at least a couple hundred other websites, so I won’t repeat those here. [↩]
