That’s certainly not to say it didn’t speak to its time or that BSG doesn’t have something to say about the War on Terror TM. But it’s not a metaphor or an allegory.

And if your point was that you interpreted my remarks as dismissing anything other than realism as art, that was like assuming I don’t consider painting to be art either, just because I didn’t make an exhaustive list. Metaphor and allegory weren’t relevant to the point I was making - see above.

Plus, The Wire has boobs.