The first two seasons the show raked the liberals over the coals. Now they are turning it around. I have no complaints with a show that whacks on both sides. My problem is with shows that whack only one.
Post looks OK to me...
So, where are you on lines?
BSG sucks. It's just about as bad as the X Files. Nothing more than a soap opera (bad one at that) in space.
just a note, I believe the word is Cylons.
And, you couldn't pay me to watch BSG, or as I call it "As the Galaxy Turns".
Original Battlestar Fan here. Sci-FI --- The new show is just sex in space.
Over here. LOL
My 7 year old watched Smoky and the Bandit on WGN for the first time tonight. He couldn't figure out who to root for, because the police were the "bad guys".
BSG has done a pretty good job at showing both sides of a struggle. If moonbats try to use it to show why the US was wrong to invade Iraq, they are nuttier than you are.
Even with suicide tactics, attacking an enemy military unit or installation is not terrorism. Attacking innocents to make a political point is.
I think you read that all wrong. There is absolutely no correlation between the WOT and Battlestar Galactica... I watched and have watched this show from the MiniSeries through tonight and while there are always topics which might bring ot mind our current struggles, I have yet to see and episode where they were pushing a bias or an agenda.
If just because a show thought to use Suicide bombers makes it inherently biased towards terrorists then you are just wound WAY TOO TIGHT. The insurgents in this show are fighting for the survival of all humankind against robots - THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING TO IMPOSE THEIR IDEALOGIES ON OTHER HUMANS.
I thought the show tonight was done extremely well and I am keenly aware of bias when it rears it's ugly head in hollywood. I think you watched that show looking for a fight - it didn't even try to push an idealogy. The Humans needed a way to kep the Cylons eyes on the people on the planet and not on the skies above. In fact, I think they made the point that Suicide Bombings bring no success, all they bring is attention. And I believe that Roselyn (the former President) states that it is not something our morals allow for - in other words - the suicide bomber was not applauded or deified.
This show does a good job dealing with the subject at hand. They do a good job of showing HOW decisions are made and why they are made. The use logic and fight for success, not for what feels good. In fact, Adama calls out his son and calls him fat and lazy for not keeping himself in shape to fight for his fellow man -- aweful judgmental for a show that was trying to be liberal, don't you think?
I love the show and think it sends the right messages to our kids that war iss not something you want or something you like, but when you have to fight, you fight. It's a good show. I hope you will watch it again and not come in looking for a fight.
You know, there's a fairly long discussion already under way...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1715205/posts
I don't watch sci-fi channel much. Too many commercials!
Wow...sounds like a big night for their ratings. Too bad you and the other three people didn't like the show.
I'm a Stargate/Andromeda/Farscape fan. I haven't ever viewed the new Battlestar Galacta. Remember watching the original when I was younger. Didn't hold my interest very long.
You're kidding, right?
Just for openers, maybe you missed the following couple points:
Watch it again. Watch some other episodes (they rerun lots of times). I think you'll see that you've over-reacted.
Son, (Sorry if i got the gender incorrect) If you'd read the producer Ronald D. Moore's comments in various publications, you'd realise that the premise of the Occupation of New Caprica was taken from the Nazi occupation of France. Had we the technology that we do today, reports from Occupied France would probably look remarkably like the present Iraqi conflict. FWIW, i happen to side with Col Tigh's perspective on what is proper. He appears to be the only person on the entire planet who is actually THINKING.
I never liked Battle Star even the first two seasons I could never "get into it" im more of a "Stargate SG1 and Atlantis" AND "Farscape" type (i miss Farscape!!!)
Set phasers to stun
1) Has Captain Adama been Rikerized?
2) Why would Admiral Adama listen to the Pres-elect after the outgoing Pres raise the (unproven) charge that he was with Cyclons at Caprica? Civilian rule / military rule depends on how active the battlefield is. Here a Cylon suspect wants to put all of humanity's eggs in one basket and he defers? They's have been better off with the first Admiral.
3) Why was there still people who wanted to go to only one planet when the news was that the Cylons had vacated the original colonies they called home?
4) Why did the Cylons come back after detecting a nuclear detonation when that was set off by model 6 who would have downloaded again and told them she did it?
I saw the episode and had the same reaction. I wrote a letter of colplaint to the President of NBC/UNIVERSAL and you might want to as well. He is:
Mr. Randy Falco
President and Chief Operating Officer
NBC Universal Television Group