Posted on 01/20/2006 8:29:57 AM PST by isaiah55version11_0
Science fiction has long been stereotyped as a hardware-obsessed, techno-jargon laden refuge for computer nerds and outcasts. Especially on television, which lacks the geek chic afforded by big-screen Hollywood budgets, the genre's reputation for hokey dialog and cardboard-and-wire effects have saturated it with a distinct odor of disrespectability. It is somewhat ironic, then, to see the Sci-Fi Channel, a network which often seems devoted to the pulpy and lowbrow, serve up Battlestar Galactica, a show about spaceships and killer robots that is also arguably the most potent, dramatically vibrant series on television. An unflinching examination of how the military, government, family, and religion interact in the fragile ecosystem of society, it as morally and intellectually serious as it is thrilling.
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It sort of depends on your POV. They are all faced with really difficult decisions, and even in the show admittedly don't always do the right thing. The latest one had the basic question, "Can I perform an immoral act that I think is necessary for survival and still call myself a human worthy of living?" The answer was a resounding no, you can't destroy your principles because of immediate necessity. Your view of what is necessary may be wrong.
It will #1 only when they rip it on South Park.
My only complaint with scifi friday is the amount of commercials vs story plot covered.
and the lack of use of frack and felterkarb.
Starbuck is definitely better looking too.
Cain got wasted in the last show. Flag covered casket out the airlock and everyhting.
The actress playing Cain was a mere ensign (Ro Laara) in Star Trek The Next Generation.
$2/episode from iTunes. But I'd get the DVD instead; much better quality, extras, and no DRM silliness.
Cain wasn't smarter or dumber. Cain was thinking differently. Cain was thinking the way Adama was until the end, only militarily and of finding a way to take the fight to the Cylons. Adama finally realized the new president was right, the war was over and the humans lost, now it's time to find some way to take the remains of humanity somewhere and try to rebuild. Both are potentially valid ways of thinking but given just how soundly the humans have been genocided Adama and the president are right, now is not the time to be kamikazi and go down fighting, now is the time to find somewhere and someway to rebuild. And part of that rebuilding is holding onto the society they had, including an elected government and a voluntary military (not like Galactica had a lot of spare equipment to be handing out to conscripts anyway "congradulations you're in the military, we have no gun for you, no body armor, no uniform, no bunk and no orders, but you're in the military").
Since those idiots at FOX took "Firefly" off the air, anyway
Cain was stupid then. People are assets even if they just hew wood and draw water or serve as cannon fodder. There is also the moral issue. Don't think I'm gonna like their shows.
If they don't work, they don't eat, breath or drink, but that would be my limit...
I was trying to figure out where I'd seen that actress before. Thanks. She did a good job as Cain. Glad she's dead, though.
To a point I agree with you. There may not be enough practical work for people to do, but you can sure find was of keeping them busy. Being idle in essentially a cattle car to the stars is not healthy psychologically. And, the type-A's will find something to do. Like when the Chief built the Blackbird. Very inspiring and morale building.
I think it was a poor choice by the writers to have had Cain executing families of the experts that refused to be conscripted; made her TOO cartoony-evil, not ambiguously-possibly-evil which is a far more interesting moral conundrum.
Otherwise it was a great set of episodes.
You don't expect us to believe you without pictures, do you? ;-)
Yep, spooky. BSG has their meneuver like in B5. A couple quick meneuver jet pulses realistically flip the Viper around, so a Viper you're following can be facing you in under a second.
It's actually liberating. Directors used to probably watch aerial fighter jet footage to plot their battle scenes, but in space you can do so much more.
Ooops. Meant a morale issue!
Folks don't do their best work with a gun at their head.
I can kind of forgive that. I have to admit 2001 got pretty boring with no sound outside.
Approach it as a new show. Leave behind your memories, however fond, of the previous show. Forget you ever saw the previous show and take this one as a new storyline, new characters and new concepts. Give it a chance and it will blow you away.
But probably respect her. She earned Starbuck's respect, and she hates brass.
Bump for later reading.
It really is otherwise (i.e. not "PC"). And very definitely not crap. Here is my mini-review of the show. It's actually one of the most conservative shows on TV.
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