The Mythology of Battlestar Galactica
POSTED BY: AnonymousPost
UPDATED: Friday, April 11, 2008 09:08
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Quote:They never reached Earth, Rallem. The show ended before they could.
Originally posted by rallem:
I will say one thing about the original Battlestar Gallactica and that is that I was very disappointed when they finally reached Earth and it was in the 1970s level of technology.
Reiterating Chrisisall
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Yes they did, the show spun off a new series called Galactica 1980.
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Quote:That show is a mass delusion caused by stray swamp gas, and never, in fact, existed.
Originally posted by rallem:
Yes they did, the show spun off a new series called Galactica 1980.
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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Quote:Nope. Didn't happen. Lots of people have these figments of imagination. Some even believe there was a movie called Superman IV The Quest For Peace, do you believe it? Naw, these things don't exist, better to leave it that way.
Originally posted by rallem:
Yes they did, the show spun off a new series called Galactica 1980.
Lords of Kobol protect us Chrisisall
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I think denying a shows existence because it did not turn out the way you or I liked it is wrong on a few counts. The most important count is by acknowleding Galactica 1980's existence we can choose to learn by its mistakes.
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Quote:We might learn, but networks don't. They just keep making bad copies of garbage. Let's let dead, forgotten (by most), crappy series rest in the swamps in which they originated, never to return.
Originally posted by rallem:
I think denying a shows existence because it did not turn out the way you or I liked it is wrong on a few counts. The most important count is by acknowleding Galactica 1980's existence we can choose to learn by its mistakes.
If they were ever really real, that is
Chrisisall
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It's you're dellusion, I'm not denying nothing. I live in the real world where BSG1980 never existed...
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Quote:How am I going to learn from this dumb shows mistakes?
Originally posted by rallem:
I think denying a shows existence because it did not turn out the way you or I liked it is wrong on a few counts. The most important count is by acknowleding Galactica 1980's existence we can choose to learn by its mistakes.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:Quote:How am I going to learn from this dumb shows mistakes?
Originally posted by rallem:
I think denying a shows existence because it did not turn out the way you or I liked it is wrong on a few counts. The most important count is by acknowleding Galactica 1980's existence we can choose to learn by its mistakes.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
By not supporting dumb shows that never existed(although I may have hallucinated watching BSG1980 once)!
Also, the whole mythology thing, I caught stuff from all kinds of books, shows, movies. And I didn't even get through the whole thing. Too much over-analysis.
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why do people read long posts then get tetchy about em?!
i don't get it - thought this was a real interesting thread...
anyhoo -
well - to get this back on topic -
i don't see any fundamental difference between post one and two (which is maybe why the thread span off?).
issues of time and technology aside, the mythology (especially the zodiac - planets - tribes - numerical breakdown from 12 - 7 - 5 etc fits a rough hollywood/movie/hokey style Kaballistic* / (Kobolistic?) structure.
(The new serious seems to have used it in a dveloped way - but they had more of a chance.
Original BSG was also still riding the wave from erich von daniken (snort) et al.
ah... i'm sorry he's gone - daniken, the bermuda triangle - stick insects - how fashions come and go... )
which is just a name - the egyptians had something similar too yadda yadda - hey and check the flag symbols in the religious sequence from the new BSG pilot finale - if you aint believing me.
i blame alan moore!
fan of both shows original* and new,
wytch
*how much is Hatch''s white - wow - im in Heaven now? - suit worth d'y'reckon?
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