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!
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.
I agree. It is pro-terrorist and equating suicide bombers with freedom fighters.
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.
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.
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.
Don't agree. This series is character driven in a way that Star Trek, in any of its versions, never matched.
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.