Battlestar Galactica, season 1

[osaraba]

Saw five more episodes of BSG last night. Good ones, though episode 5 ("You Can't Go Home Again") asked me to suspend disbelief past the point at which I was able to do so, for the situation as we know it. Which was unfortunate because I really enjoyed the episode, and I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE Starbuck. I'm withholding judgement a little, to see whether they'll circle back and tie up some loose ends here. If they don't, I shall be very disappointed.

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Started the paragraph above last week, but then I finished the first season this weekend. All the religious stuff makes me really uncomfortable, truthfully. Let me start by saying I'm not normally put off by stories about religious struggle. Whatever my personal beliefs, and whatever your personal beliefs, I have utmost respect for freedom of religion as long as it harms none.

I know the real point of discomfort for me is that it's such a big deal to the characters on a personal level, and that it's so tied up with perceptions of good and evil, right and wrong. Yeah, so, like -- very realistic in many ways. I want it to be completely live-and-let-live and for the issue of religion to be of no consequence one way or the other, and I'm really torn about the levels of fanaticism depicted. Still, this conflict is clearly part of what drives the plot of the show, and it's very engaging on intellectual, ethical, and literary levels.

I'm making a real effort to tamp down my real discomfort on this issue, and continue to look at it as a plot device -- which includes questioning where the writers will go with it, how the characters will change and respond to the new situations and the new information as it trickles in...

So I actually don't think I can watch this show with anyone.

For anyone who has seen BSG, did any of this bother you, or is this just a sensitive spot for me? Any other thoughts/feelings/squee on season 1? Please remember to keep any potentially spoilery-responses limited to season 1!

UPDATE: THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU'RE NOT SURE WHICH EPS ARE IN THE FIRST SEASON, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE PLOT OR CHARACTERS. (I screened the spoilery comment.)

Comments

[general-chris.livejournal.com]

No its not. I said the OLD show. this show isnt really following the old show. its not a spoiler.also, bc in the old show Starbuck is a MAN. and BLACK. hahaha. and there was no such thing ... as something else but i cant remember when you find that out so i wont say :p

[osaraba]

Huh. Okay, well I'm raging a little less inside now.

But I don't know anything about the old show, so comparisons to it might imply spoilers as well.

But thank you very much for the clarification.

[idreamedmusic.livejournal.com]

Actually, a whole lot has been written about the old show and religion as well, as Glen A Larson was a Mormon and put a lot of his Mormon faith into the show.

One example here: http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/battlestar-mormonica.htm

The new version seems to have substituted the Mormon stuff with a more Greco/Roman religious bend.

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Um, Starbuck was definitely NOT a black man on the Original BSG. Dirk Benedict is well know for being a blond white dude.

[general-chris.livejournal.com]

thats right. But Shes still a man back then. lol. which was the black guy?
but my point was that the new show is taking the concept and idea of the original and running in their own direction.
Wasnt Boomer a man back then too? lol

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Boomer was the black man. And yes, there is almost zero overlap, which is what I keep telling my roommate (who loved the original and therefore refuses to watch the new).