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Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/29/12)
04/29/12
| Kevin Davis
Posted on 04/29/2012 4:16:17 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (04/29/12)
Monday:
9/8 -- Eureka -- SyFy
Friday:
9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox
TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: scifi
Better Eureka, looks like they are going to kill off more characters....
Scifi shows religion themes:
1. Battlestar Galactica (1978): Mormon influence... Glenn Larson is a Mormon..
2. Stargate SG1: At the end, I think it was a subtle warning about Radical Islam.
3. Star Trek (TOS): Pro Christian
4. Stargate Universe: Pro Christian
Anything else that I'm missing???
To: Aevery_Freeman; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; Proud_texan; reed13k; ...
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posted on
04/29/2012 4:17:55 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Go Mitt Go!!!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/29/2012 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: KevinDavis
What would you say makes TOS and SGU pro-Christian?
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posted on
04/29/2012 4:48:04 PM PDT
by
sthguard
(The DNC theme song: "All You Need is Guv")
To: KevinDavis
Only two Fringe episodes left!
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:01:50 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:08:16 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: KevinDavis
I remember one episode of STTOS that referenced Christ, other that that it espoused a pretty humanistic doctrine.
SGU, pro Christian? To me is was more existential.
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posted on
04/29/2012 5:11:04 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: GeronL
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posted on
04/29/2012 7:04:49 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/29/2012 7:54:58 PM PDT
by
Krankor
To: Krankor
Seven Voyages of Sinbad?
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posted on
04/29/2012 8:27:23 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me $h!t; w!th d!fferent fl!e$". :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
Very good! Looks like I’m going to have to make next week’s a bit harder.
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posted on
04/29/2012 8:29:36 PM PDT
by
Krankor
To: Krankor
Looks like Im going to have to make next weeks a bit harder.no, not harder. :)...
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posted on
04/29/2012 9:05:52 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me $h!t; w!th d!fferent fl!e$". :^)
To: KevinDavis
TOS had its moments, no doubt forced on Roddenberry by the network, but the main tone is very humanist, in line with the opinions of its creator.
Star Trek TNG was very anti-christian, although in its later seasons curiously pro-spirituality. There's one episode, I think called "first contact", which could have been commissioned by the international Atheist convention. Tragically its also a very good episode.
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posted on
04/30/2012 12:18:23 AM PDT
by
Vanders9
To: dangerdoc
The one “pro-Christian” thing I recall about SGU was early in the run when they were going to crash into the star, thinking that they were about to die, some of the crew went to party to the end, the others had a prayer group. The prayer group was reciting a rosary —or at least the “Our Father” or “Hail, Mary”, I forget which — the point being that they were reciting actual Christian prayers, not some New Age BS.
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posted on
04/30/2012 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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