RE: Battlestar Galactica Fans: Revised BSG, Love It or Hate It?
May 31, 2015 at 3:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2015 at 4:01 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
I get why people hate the religious aspect the re-imagined series with the suggestion that there is a single god and with the Mormon influence, but as far as I'm concerned a film, TV series or book is its own universe and shouldn't automatically be taken to be saying anything about reality. This is particularly so with the genres of sci-fi and fantasy.
I was never a fan of the ultra cheesy original series. I loved the re-imagined series though. The physics seemed plausible. They used guns that shot bullets, nuclear missiles and explosives. They had shortages of food, potable water and other resources. Bodies got sucked into the vacuum of space. There was politics. And Space was really really big, they had to do jumps rather than warp travel and they even had time dilation. Although I don't know why the fleet was always moving when it wasn't jumping, it wasn't like it was going to reach a new location before the next jump.
Even the aspect of there being an almighty god can be waved away though because in both Caprica and BSG Virtual Reality is as real as actual reality and there is a suggestion that their reality could have been created in the same way.
I was never a fan of the ultra cheesy original series. I loved the re-imagined series though. The physics seemed plausible. They used guns that shot bullets, nuclear missiles and explosives. They had shortages of food, potable water and other resources. Bodies got sucked into the vacuum of space. There was politics. And Space was really really big, they had to do jumps rather than warp travel and they even had time dilation. Although I don't know why the fleet was always moving when it wasn't jumping, it wasn't like it was going to reach a new location before the next jump.
Even the aspect of there being an almighty god can be waved away though because in both Caprica and BSG Virtual Reality is as real as actual reality and there is a suggestion that their reality could have been created in the same way.
