[Citizen Blade]

But let me clarify: it appears that whether one will like the show or not depends on one's worldview. If a person feels that the universe is truly full of moral greyness, that there is no true right or wrong, and that humans are fundamentally weak, then such a person will probably like this show. This show portrays humanity in exactly that way.

Perhaps. But that does not mean that everyone who watched BSG shares that worldview. That's where your argument breaks down.

Now, once the show started going in that direction, I pretty much stopped watching because I KNOW that it is complete BS. I know that people, especially professional military, would not behave in this manner en masse.

You know how people would react in a situation where 99% of humanity was wiped out and the rest are on the run?

Apparently, your worldview is such that it allows you to identify with the show and therefore enjoy it.

Whatever.

[fr_freak]

You know how people would react in a situation where 99% of humanity was wiped out and the rest are on the run?

I couldn't say what any particular person would do or say in such a situation, but I could tell you how populations as a whole would react. All we have to do is look at many of the moments in human history when a population faced a far superior adversary in war, and faced possible cultural extinction. More often than not, those populations rose up and fought hard, just like Churchill's statement when Britain was being bombed back into the stone age by the Germans "This will be our finest hour". That is one of the better parts of the human spirit, and I need only extrapolate that to an even more severe circumstance where the enitre race faced extinction, and I think I can be pretty confident that the net reaction to a threat to species survival would not be "Do we have the right to fight for our survival?"

But that does not mean that everyone who watched BSG shares that worldview. That's where your argument breaks down.

Yes, and I suppose you don't have to be a queer or a fag-hag to watch "Brokeback Mountain" either, but it damn sure helps.

Whatever.

Well, touche'.