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

[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!

[TheLion]

I don't watch sci-fi channel much. Too many commercials!

[blake6900]

Wow...sounds like a big night for their ratings. Too bad you and the other three people didn't like the show.

[lilylangtree]

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.

[unspun]

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.

How many sides are you on? :-)

BTW, Season 2 had an episode that was decidedly pro-abortion in its sentiments and characterizations.

[thoughtomator]

BTW, Season 2 had an episode that was decidedly pro-abortion in its sentiments and characterizations.

And yet, when a decision needed to be made, they decided that a ban on abortion was necessary for the survival of humanity.

[cabojoe]

Bravo!

[EsmeraldaA]

Not again!?!?

SHEEEEEEEESH!

You've got to be kidding........me...........hehehe

[ConservativeMind]

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.

You don't understand how liberals see Islam. They don't see Muslims as imposing their faith on others. They only see Christianity as doing so or the Bush Administration as doing so.

So they are truly showing this as their world view sees it. They were simply Muslims before we came and desired to contain and kill them when necessary.

[Arkinsaw]

BTW, Season 2 had an episode that was decidedly pro-abortion in its sentiments and characterizations.

I didn't take it that way at all. Adama's line reminding her that she had said "if we are going to save the human race we better start having babies"...was a direct reference to Western civilization birthrate. They did not end up aborting the baby.

I took it in the context that the colonial side was a representation of Western civilization all through those two seasons. With the folly of liberalism leading them to "forget" the enemy. The abortion episode as representative of Western civilization's stagnant population fits for that context.

This season they are switching it. The colonials are representatives of the insurgency. I don't mind, they showed the other side very well. I am not afraid of seeing the switch.

[unspun]

And yet, when a decision needed to be made, they decided that a ban on abortion was necessary for the survival of humanity.

Survival, over loving concern for innocent human beings, morality, responsibility to God, right.

[unspun]

They did not end up aborting the baby.

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

[Arkinsaw]

Survival, over loving concern for innocent human beings, morality, responsibility to God, right.

"The Human Race" in the first two seasons were representative of western civilization engaged in a war of civilizations after a great calamity. Much of those seasons were dealing with the internal battle between security, practicality, and military necessity versus liberal weak-livered utopianism and fantasy thinking. In the end, liberal utopianism won out, the people were convinced to return to the fantasy of a "pre-911" life, the military was diminished....and a far greater tragedy resulted. Defeat. A great message and great two seasons.

Now the producers are using that culmination to explore the other side and hold up a mirror to it. I'm not afraid of them doing that.

[thoughtomator]

Given that they don't share our conception of God, I would not expect them to make a decision on that basis. I do agree that the innocence of the child was definitely a missing element in the argument. But I'm not going to demand that a TV show be as thorough on each topic it addresses as I would demand of a court or a legislature.

[irv]

This is blatant "moral equivalance"

You're kidding, right?

Just for openers, maybe you missed the following couple points:

• The volunteers are not psychos looking to score virgins in the afterlife, they are people who have lost all hope.
• The leader (Col. Tigh) who sends these suicide bombers out is clearly portrayed as a completely ruthless, almost inhuman SOB.
• The entire show is highly charged - life and death every episode. The logic of that simple fact tends to drive it into some pretty intense action. That's story telling not mere moralizing.

Watch it again. Watch some other episodes (they rerun lots of times). I think you'll see that you've over-reacted.

[thoughtomator]

The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

The Gemini represenatative did come across that way - a poor advocate for the anti-abortion side. Do we not have similar figures is America, those who hold to strong morals (or claim to) yet come across very poorly when they advocate them?

[UNGN]

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

The baby wasn't aborted, It will play into the story line at a later date... agggghhh now I'm doing it... It's only a TV show, It's only a TV...

[irv]

Season 2 had an episode that was decidedly pro-abortion in its sentiments and characterizations.

You mean the episode where abortion was banned in the interests of human survival? Yeah. That's really pro-abort when someone who claims to favor that "freedom" decides she has to ban it anyway. < /sarcasm >

[Arkinsaw]

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

I don't see how you can see it that way, those two seasons were not morality plays...they were focused on the war between civilizations and the practical means for winning it versus taking an ostrich approach and slowly forgetting why you are fighting. Their "liberals" convinced them to give up the fight and try to go back to the way it was....the pro-abortion sentiments were part of that.....in the end, their "liberals" won. The people stopped fighting and tried to mimic their old life in a cold-barren place.....the message was that the enemy is still out there and forgetting that leads to defeat.

[unspun]

I think you're fitting more into a theme than the show presents. I saw no one standing up for human life in the womb on true and loving principle, for that individual's life.

[ConservativeMind]

Today's most recent example of how liberals support jihad while putting down anti-jihad views:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715281/posts