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Oh come on, Mlin, taste is such a fucking cop out. I like vanilla ice cream, you like blueberry - that's taste. We both like a show enough that we both watch it, now you can't call on taste. We just have different opinions about the actual content of the show.

Future-people and nowadays-problems - yes, I agree. That's what I loved about it. It's the realism that got me hooked on the show. It's gone now. It started going around the time people started blowing up into Cylons on New Caprica, which was showing us that SEE TERRORISTS ARE JUST LIKE US. That's not added depth. It might be for Joe Buck from the mid-west, it's not for me. I like to think I'm a bit more intelligent than that.

And I just wanted to comment on the modern Jesus bit. Do you know what his biggest problem would be? Facing the cynicism of bastards like me. And we get none of that in BSG. There are two types of people in that universe - those that blindly follow Balthar and those that blindly follow Roslin and the old gods. There isn't a fucking sane person left on that whole fleet.

ps: Comparing a Coen brothers movie to a shitty sci-fi tv show is a cardinal sin. If there was a god, you would be striken down

When you laugh at scenes that aren't supposed to be funny, you know there's something wrong with the show you're watching.

Adama in the Raptor reading the book was one of those  ...

And it ain't like those scenes are about to go away.

No hate, just sayin ..

You were talking about semantics? Overshadowed or gone, who cares? It's not what it used to be, so you can't really use it as a point to prove that BSG is something that it is not. If they hurried the show it's because the ratings are dropping, ratings weren't dropping before they started introducing the mystical bs halfway through season 3. See the connection? Lost, American Idol, Trump's Apprentice or whateverthefuck has nothing to do with hurrying the show. Best sci-fi show on air? Probably, but I don't settle. Could it be much better? Yes. And that's what pisses me off. Atlantis is what it is and you don't see me whining about it, do you? It's because I don't care.

Also I used to like Lost. Than they explained, or rather didn't, what was going on and put stuff into perspective. That made me not like the show and dislike the episodes I did like in lost. It's all about perspective man. When shit that happened early and you totally dug, that you thought had one explanation, has a completely different explanation that is ridiculous you stop digging it (invisible six, anyone?). 

And there you go again throwing a fucking classical author with a bunch of modern sell outs. Come on man. Don't do that. Asimov is Asimov. And BSG has very, very little to do with him. And what the show has to do with him, is due to the fact that the Man, along with a couple of others from his era, changed the way Sci-Fi is written.

No he is not. If he was he wouldn't act like a 16 year old in love. Fuck that noise, they completely destroyed the character for me. And again - perspective, now I can't like him in the events leading up to this moment, because I know that he wasn't the collected, calm, calculating Admiral, but a wreck waiting to fall in love with the first thing that has cancer in sight and completely break down.

I could totally flame you, but I won't mate. Cause I like you

Hello everybody.

I think you are missing the central point of view of BSG here. It is not about fierce battles, fancy high-tech staff, or heroes and stories whatsoever. It is about people; people who is just like you and me; flawed. I believe the focus of the show is on the human element that will hunt us throughout our existance. We actually are like how the people of BSG is depicted; scattered, not focusing, persuing all kinds of crap, missing the point in almost everything, and self-destructing. Therefore, I do not think show will ever get in to the shape as arashi wishes, and I hope not, since that is what makes BSG what it is. Whatever we do, regardless of advance and dependancy, we are entitled to mess up everything that comes close. That is, in my opinion, is the driving force of the show's characters and all its plots.

On the other hand, the "voodoo stuff" may very well not be what it seems to be . As of now, it is revealed that the final five cylons are of earthly origin; they have been and came from there. At that point, one might wonder the "true" nature of cylons and human race; are they so different, or is there some sort of connection between them? What we know for certain is that the people of the twelve colonies are not the "original" human brand. (: Who are the Lords of Cobol and all the gods mentioned? Are they really the mythical divine beings or some ancient and almost forgotten remnants of a distant relative-maybe ancestor- who are shrouded in myths and epic tellings performing some kind of a grand plan serving their intentions? I am thinking that because it seems as if someone is guiding all of them, whether cylon or not, through similar means; like the message of the oracle in New Caprica, Baltar's and Caprica Six'es "ghosts", the whole event of Opera House, Hera, four thausand years old Temple and so on... Hybrids, who are "connected to God" as one cylon stated, seem to know some stuff, but they are a little bit shy to come forward and speak. (:

wow I talked a lot for a first post.

One last comment; Starbuck is the reference for the definition of the word "bitch". (:

Did you really want to open up this can?

Though I almost agree with arashi in everyway on this topic, he has been quite peaceful lately and I wouldn't wish his vengeance on anyone.