Word: quested
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Joining Pepsi's quest for O-mentum are advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...
Meanwhile, rescue workers feverishly tossed out ropes and ladders over the frozen river and launched rubber dinghies, but their efforts were hampered by floating chunks of ice. As dusk fell, searchlights were switched on, but by 5:30, officials realized the quest was in vain. Divers sent down to inspect the fuselage had discovered that nearly all of the passengers were still strapped in their seats. The toll: 78 dead, including four motorists. Only five aboard Flight 90-four passengers and a stewardess-survived the first major U.S. airline crash in 26 months...
Many science-fiction and fantasy sagas are driven by the quest for One Big Solution: a singular objective that, realized, fixes everything. Someone throws a ring in a volcano and Sauron is obliterated. Someone kills the emperor and balance is restored to the Force...
...parallels were uncomfortable. Admiral William Adama (Edward James Olmos, a far cry from the cuddly Lorne Greene of the '70s BSG) unflinchingly overrides civilian rule when he sees fit for security; Roslin is not above ballot-box-stuffing to ensure she leads the quest for Earth. In Season 3, when humanity lived under an Iraq-like occupation by Cylons (hoping to reform rather than exterminate the survivors), characters turned to bombings and suicide attacks against Cylons and their human collaborators...
...humans (now allied with a breakaway group of Cylons) wonder what to do next. In the process, BSG shifts from the topical to the timeless, raising questions about the nature of humanity as the protagonists are forced to redefine their purpose. Can humankind save itself, not by finishing some quest but by understanding the threats of its own creation? As this brilliant space saga comes to an end, humans are forced to recognize that the big solution is not out in the stars. But it might be in themselves...