I have always been an atheist - even as a little kid I just never believed in anything unreal - but I was fine with it because of how it worked in the story, just as I enjoyed the angels, demons, and God/Chuck in "Supernatural".
BSG was a bit of a poke at the mistakes as far as both ourselves and our enemies that we made after 9/11. Making the humans pretty secular polytheists and the Cylons crusading fundamentalist monotheists was designed to throw us off our settled game.
The core mythology ultimately posited some sort of Higher Power but not a conventional hands-on God - more a motive force still dependent on the humans and the Cylons to make decisions and act. Free will remained essential for both.
For me, the role of religion was really just another character in the ensemble.
I'm not American so I don't have that settled game.
I object to the vague higher power as much as to a hands-on god, there's no relevant theological difference between the two in my eyes. Also, I think there are some fascinating discussions to be had regarding free will versus reactions to your environment, which we can't have in BSG because in-universe the concept of free will can only be discussed in the context of religion.
I'm not. And I love Star Wars (not as much as Star Trek - different discussion). But grown people taking this so seriously that they attack the performers? It's like attacking the Wiggles for not performing Carmina Burana.
Easy, the Rebel Alliance is presented as diverse in both skin color, gender, and species. Every character on the side of the empire is a white male human. (With the exception of whatever alien species Admiral Thrawn is supposed to be, but until he appears in a movie, I consider him non-canon.)
I've been playing Lord Of The Rings Online since it was released some 15 years ago and while there are some things I might improve, like player/NPC movement and combat actions could certainly be updated, the landscapes (particularly distant landscapes) are almost as gorgeous as anything Cezanne painted. Unfortunately, I've also had to endure PJ fans who seem to think that he is canon and believe all the things he threw in, like dwarves being essentially buffoonish characters, (bad enough in the LOTR movies, but even worse in the first Hobbit movie, which was the only one I could stomach), even to the point where his running joke is that dwarf-women have beards, which is definitely not canon. JRRT describes them traveling abroad in the same guise as dwarf-men, which only means they travel booted, cloaked, and under deep hoods. While I'm not entirely sure, I think there's a reference in JRRT's letters or perhaps in one of the posthumous volumes that also insisted that dwarf-women don't have beards. It's one of the things that the PJ fans are all in a tizzy about is that the person playing Dwarf-princess Disa (Dis in the appendices) is not only being played by an actress of color, but doesn't have a beard so we don't have to take her seriously.
It is different in order to give some continuity to characters. Creon is now a genetic dynasty of clones, so... emperors change but not really. some characters who were men in the book are women in the series, Demerzel is a woman and a known robot in the series, Hari Seldon has no wife (who was a robot in the books), Salvor Hardin is a woman too, etc, etc.
It's different, and in some ways better than the books. In some ways the books were better. They have different suspense elements . That's probably the biggest difference of all.
Foundation books were written one at a time, and each was an attempt to graft a new limb onto the original idea, so you go from what was like a bunch of short novellas in Foundation, to some sprawling thing with Foundation and Earth, and at times the novels felt like they grew out of something originally meant to be simpler.
The series looked at that arc from Foundation to the last novel, and it tries to adapt that to the screen in a manner where there aren't so many characters, so that you can identify with them, I suppose, rather than a revolving cast of new characters over thousands of years... except for the two robots, and so far there is only one, and he is a woman robot now.
Details, details.
I have always been an atheist - even as a little kid I just never believed in anything unreal - but I was fine with it because of how it worked in the story, just as I enjoyed the angels, demons, and God/Chuck in "Supernatural".
BSG was a bit of a poke at the mistakes as far as both ourselves and our enemies that we made after 9/11. Making the humans pretty secular polytheists and the Cylons crusading fundamentalist monotheists was designed to throw us off our settled game.
The core mythology ultimately posited some sort of Higher Power but not a conventional hands-on God - more a motive force still dependent on the humans and the Cylons to make decisions and act. Free will remained essential for both.
For me, the role of religion was really just another character in the ensemble.
I'm not American so I don't have that settled game.
I object to the vague higher power as much as to a hands-on god, there's no relevant theological difference between the two in my eyes. Also, I think there are some fascinating discussions to be had regarding free will versus reactions to your environment, which we can't have in BSG because in-universe the concept of free will can only be discussed in the context of religion.
That's a nickname. Moses as a first name is rare for women.
Except Jabba, he's pretty much what he looks like.
They could split it in two, like they did Hunger Games
Some white people suffer so much from not having all the power. Having almost all the power is just not enough for them.
I'm not. And I love Star Wars (not as much as Star Trek - different discussion). But grown people taking this so seriously that they attack the performers? It's like attacking the Wiggles for not performing Carmina Burana.
Thank you, I've only seen a handful of Rebels episodes so I wasn't sure what the Inquisitor's whole deal was.
Also is your screen name a reference to the truly excellent Xbox game Viva Pinata?
Easy, the Rebel Alliance is presented as diverse in both skin color, gender, and species. Every character on the side of the empire is a white male human. (With the exception of whatever alien species Admiral Thrawn is supposed to be, but until he appears in a movie, I consider him non-canon.)
"Iron Sky". Never seen it but I heard its a hoot, if you are into "Sharknado" style lunacy.
I've been playing Lord Of The Rings Online since it was released some 15 years ago and while there are some things I might improve, like player/NPC movement and combat actions could certainly be updated, the landscapes (particularly distant landscapes) are almost as gorgeous as anything Cezanne painted. Unfortunately, I've also had to endure PJ fans who seem to think that he is canon and believe all the things he threw in, like dwarves being essentially buffoonish characters, (bad enough in the LOTR movies, but even worse in the first Hobbit movie, which was the only one I could stomach), even to the point where his running joke is that dwarf-women have beards, which is definitely not canon. JRRT describes them traveling abroad in the same guise as dwarf-men, which only means they travel booted, cloaked, and under deep hoods. While I'm not entirely sure, I think there's a reference in JRRT's letters or perhaps in one of the posthumous volumes that also insisted that dwarf-women don't have beards. It's one of the things that the PJ fans are all in a tizzy about is that the person playing Dwarf-princess Disa (Dis in the appendices) is not only being played by an actress of color, but doesn't have a beard so we don't have to take her seriously.
I don't think kids ever attack performers, that has always been more of an adult thing. but I get your point, the behaviour is unacceptable.
Tolkien felt the perfect evening was spent in the company of "Christian gentlemen".
not the same. Two different animals.
It is different in order to give some continuity to characters. Creon is now a genetic dynasty of clones, so... emperors change but not really. some characters who were men in the book are women in the series, Demerzel is a woman and a known robot in the series, Hari Seldon has no wife (who was a robot in the books), Salvor Hardin is a woman too, etc, etc.
It's different, and in some ways better than the books. In some ways the books were better. They have different suspense elements . That's probably the biggest difference of all.
Foundation books were written one at a time, and each was an attempt to graft a new limb onto the original idea, so you go from what was like a bunch of short novellas in Foundation, to some sprawling thing with Foundation and Earth, and at times the novels felt like they grew out of something originally meant to be simpler.
The series looked at that arc from Foundation to the last novel, and it tries to adapt that to the screen in a manner where there aren't so many characters, so that you can identify with them, I suppose, rather than a revolving cast of new characters over thousands of years... except for the two robots, and so far there is only one, and he is a woman robot now.