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Jason in Egypt
commented:It sounds like this is something I'll need to catch up on, once I'm back! Anyone else "hooked"?on Thu Oct 12 11:11:38 2006 |
David commented: Well, Wil Wheaton, for one.on Thu Oct 12 13:11:58 2006As Battlestar Galactica shows us today, science fiction has a long tradition of holding up a mirror to our modern world, and reflecting it back to us in a way that doesn't beat us over the head with a message, but makes that message easy enough to find for those who want to see it.But I bet you were asking the other readers, weren't you? |
Derek (Erb) commented: What's the link between this series & the original series (early 80s)?on Thu Oct 12 20:54:15 2006 |
David commented: That's a tough question - there's the religion, which I think the new series does a lot better. And the basic storyline is the same - cylons come, blow up earth, people look for new home. But really, honestly, they are both products of their time - the original show was sort of like tolkein - big ideas, not a whole lot of character development - people were archetypes. The new series is more like the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson - a lot more interpersonal. But unlike those books (which I didn't care for) the series does the big ideas and the interpersonal fairly well, without becoming too much like a soap opera.on Thu Oct 12 22:20:19 2006 |