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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

So I started Battlestar Galatica...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feb 3 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

Watched the first episode of the mini on the red eye back east. Who can sleep on those things by the way? Apparently the entire plane, except me. At any rate, I found the plot compelling, the acting pedestrian (was that Julian Bashir?), and the romance grating. I don't think there was one character who really pulled me in--though the plot made me really, really curious. It's a little too "TV" for me ("Why'd you let him die Dad?") but it's also only first episode. I'll know more as I get further in. I have responsibility to you guys to watch the whole thing. It's weird realizing that. 

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