Posted on 10/06/2006 8:58:56 PM PDT by Freep EE
Freepers please help. This is one of my first posts. I am sorry if I don't do this right! I just watched Battlestar Galactica tonight. I was just sickened by the program tonight where the resistance fighters were wearing suicide belts, blowing themselves up to fight the "evil silons". This is blatant "moral equivalance" situation where Sci Fi viewers were subjected to the "war on terror" equivalance of the "war on Silons" where they try to equate the terrorists to fictional characters on Sci. If this continues, I will not watch Sci Fi channel anymore. Freepers please help ssend a messasge to Sci Fi that that this is not OK!
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.
Huh?
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.
The original was space opera. Nothing wrong with that, but the new one is, imho, very different and much better.
LOL! Hadn't heard that one before but it does describe it quite well!
Duh--I messed up---you are right with the spelling and content. I still think this episode with the suicide belts was a shot against the "administration" and the war on terror.
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.
Wow are you wound tooooo tight. It's a Science Fiction show and had absolutely nothing to do with American Soldiers...you are just mad or looking for a fight. Look, I know there's enough Hollywood crap out there tryin ot brainwash the yutes of the country, but this isn't one of them. It shows soldiers in a great light and it sends message that fighting for your way of life is not a choice, it's a duty.
Dan
You know, there's a fairly long discussion already under way...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1715205/posts
All good points.
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