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Let me clarify. (maybe some spoilers if you're not at least to Season 2, episode 7). Aemon Send a noteboard - 25/02/2013 10:38:54 PM

View original postAnd I don't think that it's unrealistic for religions to exist, even in the distant future or whenever the show takes place, with all of their advanced technology. I would be very surprised if religions died out in our civilization, at any point. Old ones would simply get replaced by new ones, but the need to believe in something would still likely compel a healthy portion of the population. And apocalyptic events, such as the start of BSG, would still lead to increased religious zealotry.

I don't disagree that religions would exist. I just found BSG's religion very difficult to believe, particularly given the amount of influence it had over them. I mean, imagine that modern day people were fleeing North America via aircraft carrier. They know they're being chased by superior opponents and that they have to find some sort of remote land to settle in. Halfway through the journey, their Secretary of Education declares that some of the islands they were passing seemed very similar to those that had once surrounded the lost island of Atlantis. She thinks they should detour to one of the islands in order to search for the Gates of Sparta, which could point the way to the Tomb of Plato, which might contain a Golden Sextant that would show where Atlantis has been hiding all this time! And of course, everyone thinks this is a wonderful idea and that they should mutiny in order to check it out.

...REALLY?

And that's not the worst part, either. The worst part is that, of course, they were right to do so. Their crazy, stupid, no-one-in-their-right-mind plan worked out great, because darn if they didn't find the Gates of Sparta, Tomb of Plato and Golden Sextant on that random island. The whole thing just struck me as ridiculously stupid on the colonists' part, and even more stupid of the show's writers to make that a legitimate part of their journey.


The fact of the matter is that the last remnants of humanity would suffer from political disputes, infighting, bickering over minutia, other such matters, and that people generally are very flawed and often unlikable individuals. But that doesn't mean that it makes for pleasant or easy viewing. And Roslin most certainly embodies that.

Yeah, I don't find the political bickering unrealistic (as I did with the religion), I just object to the refocusing of the show around those issues. The show completely switched gears in the second season.

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I started finished watching Battlestar Galactica A Deathwatch Guard - 25/02/2013 07:23:02 AM 1176 Views
Roslin embodies everything that was wrong with that show. (no spoilers). Aemon - 25/02/2013 04:53:27 PM 860 Views
I usually like mysticism and prophecies and the like A Deathwatch Guard - 25/02/2013 07:50:18 PM 664 Views
Let me clarify. (maybe some spoilers if you're not at least to Season 2, episode 7). Aemon - 25/02/2013 10:38:54 PM 804 Views
I do agree with that A Deathwatch Guard - 26/02/2013 01:20:47 AM 733 Views
The point you seem to have missed is why their religous feelings are so strong. HyogaRott - 27/02/2013 03:50:30 AM 620 Views
Question... A Deathwatch Guard - 02/03/2013 03:11:57 AM 544 Views
I do not beleive that any of it is new material. *NM* HyogaRott - 02/03/2013 11:40:50 AM 292 Views
Are you sure you watched it all? Amyrlin - 10/03/2013 02:00:34 AM 698 Views
I would literally avert my eyes during those beginning-of-show spoiler mash-ups. I hated them. Zalis - 14/03/2013 08:03:22 PM 596 Views
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