IT'S TRUE!
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Since it debuted six years ago, the Sci Fi drama about a rag-tag space fleet has offered challenging fictional depictions of problems afflicting our planet in the here and now.
And now a discussion of how those very issues have been handled on the show will take place at the United Nations.
On March 17, there will be a "Battlestar" retrospective at the U.N. in New York and a panel discussion of how the show examined issues such as "human rights, children and armed conflict, terrorism, human rights and reconciliation and dialogue among civilizations and faith," according to Sci Fi.
The "Battlestar" contingent on the panel will consist of executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, as well as stars Mary McDonnell (who plays president Laura Roslin on the show) and Edward James Olmos (Admiral William Adama).
I just hope that the officials at the U.N. press them hard for details that will allow us to avenge the enslavement of our fellow cylons by their human oppressors out in the stars!
I mean, it might take us a couple thousand years to track down the twelve colonies, given our current lack of FTL drives, but it sure would be worth it to end human oppression.
I just hope that we're all on the same page on this one, here on earth. I'd hate to see this issue divide us and, y'know, lead to a nuclear war or anything.
Hmmm . . .
I think I'm going to go Google "organic memory transfer" now. Maybe I can find a lab working on that.
Funny. . . . I just have this feeling of deja vu.
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How ridiculous can this continue to get?
I mean ,REALLY?
Basing an international initiative off of astupid remake of a TV show?
PUHLEEEEZE!
Dominic.
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Dominic,
Only my Christian charity prevents me from lashing out at your comment 😉
BSG Rules!
Dominic –
While there may be a similarity of names between Battlestar Galactica and the Battlestar Galactica Classic, that’s about where it ends. This new show is very, very good.
This is a real a boon for the creators and writers of the show. It shows that their art has struck a chord with politicians about their internal and political condition. That’s a bit of a marvel in this day and age.
Or we can take the cynics point of view – politicians are just looking for a photo op with their favorite celebrities. But this does seem a bit much for a photo op.
I wouldn’t worry about lack of FTL drives. THe guys at Fruit of The Loom have been working on them in a secret lab a 1/2 mile beneath their underwear factory.
It doesn’t surprise me that the guys from the bar scene in “Star Wars” are having a conference about another sci-fi venue.
It shows that their art has struck a chord with politicians about their internal and political condition
That, or they think a well done sci-fi show is a good way to seem hip and relevant without alienating the “why are you sending crates of condoms to India?” crowd. Kinda reminds me of high school. Except the condoms thing–that was a little after my time.
Can I get points for being cynical, too?
Actually, while it is true that the new show is quite good — and that its quality represents, and is a function of, the show’s major departure(s) from the original — it’s somewhat hyperbolic to say that the similarities about end with the name … and this just happens to be directly relevant to a point I’ve been arguing in these posts.
No one would praise (or censure) the new Galactica for its fidelity to the original. Its revisionism is sufficiently wholesale to qualify it as a largely original work. At the same time, the more you know the original show — the good and the bad — the more you are able to appreciate how cleverly the creators both used and revised the original.
In other words, the new show stands in the fuzzy grey area between adaptation and original — perhaps closer to the original side than the adaptation side — but what there is of adaptation here qualifies the show as a “good” adaptation by my criterion: an adaptation that one can appreciate more, not less, the better one knows the source material.
My sons and daughter are avid fans. They have kept encouraging me to check it out. Perhaps I will get season one.
Rich
I can understand the deja vu, particularly considering that all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again.
🙂
And Fr. Dowd gets the prize! I ended on the deja vu line precisely so somebody could step in with that quotation.
What is a “pannel?”
PS: All science fiction is a complete waste of time.
Allow me to translate: Anything *I* don’t like is stupid!
I wouldn’t worry about lack of FTL drives. THe guys at Fruit of The Loom have been working on them in a secret lab a 1/2 mile beneath their underwear factory.
They’re doing some amazing work. At a a symposium last year I saw them present their briefs. They have also placed online a number of tighty-whitey papers.
Off-topic: Pope Benedict’s letter is up. I’ve just started reading it.
Too funny!
“UN representatives on the panel are Radhika Coomaraswamy, special representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict; Craig Mokhiber, deputy director of the New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Robert Orr, assistant secretary-general for policy planning, executive office of the Secretary-General.”
This is the same august body that just recently declared that Sudan’s leader is a criminal, given the genocide engaged in by his government against Darfur. That’s been hailed as bold, even though it’s just about as bold as announcing that Hitler’s a bad guy, say, in 1949, or that Stalin was a meany say, in 1972.
I note that as one of the folks on this panel has something to do with children and armed conflicts, and another with human rights.
Maybe they ought to turn off their tvs and take a look around.
Of course, Yeoman, but see the bright side: since pretty much all they do at the UN seems to be advancing abortion as a “human right”, global taxation and the global warming lunacy; perhaps it’s better that they turn on their TVs for even more time…
Wow, Darwin conference at the Vatican, and now Battlestar Galactica conference at the UN. What an odd succession of eerily similar proximate events. I bet people will say that Battlestar Galactica is now an official UN article of faith.
It’s eerily like that episode of Futurama where they state that Star Trek actually developed into a major Faith,and as a result of the religious wars that followed in it’s wake,the 79 original episodes were gathered together and jettisoned into space,and all the ”fans”, virgins living in their parent’s basements,were dropped into an active volcano.
Really the same kind of creepy.
the same could be said of this overlapping of fiction and real-world politics.
It should be disallowed.
Dominic.
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Let’s wait and see the creators, writers, producers get a Nobel prize…
So sad that the Nobel Society, UN, and Olympics have lost all respect in the past 10 years. =/