Tue Sorensen wrote:
> On 5 Maj, 20:44, Niels <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> How about current Battlestar Galactica? There's _one_ scientist, who's
mad,
>> never does any science and quite possibly kills people left and right.
>> There are spaceships, but it's all sort of steam punk-ish tech. Evil
>> machines are, or are not, trying to kill everybody. Everything is
wrapped
>> in religion, mysticism and really loathsome characters. What say you?
>
> The religion in Battlestar Galactica is presented specifically *as*
> religion. There is no evidence of supernatural happenings. The
> religion is based in legends about Earth, and these myths are part of
> the plot, and it will probably be revealed just how they came into
> being. The overall premise is a perfectly sound scientific world view.
Bluh, what? Maybe if you'd only watched a few scattered episodes, or
the first two seasons, could you have made this argument (giving a lot
of benefit of the doubt to Baltar's taking advice from his imagination
that turns out to always be right and claims to be an angel from God).
Moving into the fourth season now, that seems to me a pretty silly
claim: It's introduced _explicitly_ as religion in the series, and the
creators are on record as stating that they went out of their way to try
to integrate spiritual elements into their work (as I saw in some
interviews; I'd have to dig it up if someone thinks this isn't true,
even though we hear about it ever other episode).
We haven't seen the end, but we're seeing ridiculous implausibilities,
crazy events that aren't explainable rationally, and religion mentioned
practically every episode. The characters who aren't even particularly
religious have even commented about how they can't deny something weird
is going on! If you need examples, I'll give them, but I wouldn't think
that anyone actually watching the series would need them.
That isn't in and of itself a horrible thing, necessarily, but it's not
exactly subtle, and I suspect it's all going to end up being used as
deus ex machina ultimately (deus ex deus, really, I guess).
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