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Sci Fi Channel | 10/06/06 | Sci Fi Channel

Posted on 10/06/2006 8:58:56 PM PDT by Freep EE

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To: mhking

someone is honked off by the insurgency element in the season premier?

feh.
it is a good show, a complex show, and a human show. not every thing will please every one.


81 posted on 10/09/2006 9:58:07 AM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: Freep EE

I agree. It is pro-terrorist and equating suicide bombers with freedom fighters.


82 posted on 10/09/2006 11:16:51 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Arkinsaw

I don't see how supporting the use of suicide bombers by "the good guys" is "turning it around" and raking conservatives over the coals or even "supporting liberals".

It is SUPPORTING terrorist bombings, at least in principle.

Put yourself in 1933 Germany, should Jews have gone on suicide bombing missions against marketplace families? Still would've been wrong. Okay, how about suicide bombers taking out Hitler and his buddies at the Olympics? Wait, there have been murders at the Olympics and WWI started with an assassination.

So what is the "good" case for a suicide bombing? Surrendering to the enemy troops and then detonating? I believe we've seen this too. We certainly have to check for it.


83 posted on 10/09/2006 11:22:09 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: RobbyS

The ORIGINAL was Star Wars. BSG was a made for tv knock-off.

So now there is a remake/revisioning of a knockoff of a patchwork "tribute".

Heck, maybe some of the Japanese series were the closest "origin" for space opera.


84 posted on 10/09/2006 11:24:03 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

I pretty much agree. But I don't think the producers are actually supporting anything....I think they are exploring lots of things from different angles. Which is what real Science Fiction is actually for. The questions you ask indicate that they have done their job.


85 posted on 10/09/2006 12:19:56 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Freep EE
I don't know how anyone DIDN'T see this coming! The "moral equivalence" crap has been there all along. Humanize the enemy, question our right to defend ourselves....I quit the show in the first season because of all that crap.
86 posted on 10/09/2006 12:24:36 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (M.I.E. Mainer In Exile I'll come back when the Massholes go home.)
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To: Arkinsaw
It is speculative fiction, to be sure, but it would be as bad as the good guys tattooing all the aliens or using ovens to burn the enemy.

"Don't go there".

It is essentially a war story, despite the cosmic dressing. There is allegory and allusion being drawn to other conflicts.
87 posted on 10/09/2006 12:28:35 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

Don't agree. This series is character driven in a way that Star Trek, in any of its versions, never matched.


88 posted on 10/09/2006 7:15:08 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Uriah_lost

Don't know where the series is going with the Cylons, but I gather with each "reincarnation" the humanoid versions become more and more human.


89 posted on 10/09/2006 7:17:40 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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