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Sci-Fi Channel Renews Battlestar Galactica
Chairboy writes "The Sci-Fi Channel has just announced the renewal of Battlestar Galactica for a second season. The creator of the show has announced that the second season will delve into the religious issues surrounding the Cylons in addition to opening up their society more. The latest episode had 3.2 million viewers, almost twice as many as watched the latest episode of Star Trek Enterprise." I said it before, and I'll say it again- this is the best Sci Fi program currently airing, so I'm happy to see more.
Bittorrent. Here: www.btefnet.com.
They're on the UK schedule so you can download the first 13 episodes at very high quality. (I hook it up to my 48" TV @ 640X480 and looks as good as Direct TV).
I live in Panama, so it's not like I can get it any other way.
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
If you are going to rape reality in a television show, you might as well be hung for a goat as for a sheep.
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Nothing is neccessary, but religion is a very traditional element in SF. After all, SF is about using ideas from science to be able to write directly about questions which are hard to aproach other than metaphorically in `mainstream' art (eg the nature of time, whether Vulcan women have pubic hair). Religious questions fit right in.
Consider more or less anything by PKD or H.G Wells or Stapledon. Or all the `Force' drivel in the Star Wars films. Or just about all of Babylon 5.
More specifically, one of the reasons for the existance of robots in SF is asking the question of what it means to be a person, and a good number of possible answers to that are the religious ones. The new Battlestar Galactica is all about that question (with some fun space ship battles thrown in), so naturally religion is going to turn up.
Not to mention the mormon connection.
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It was filmed documentary-style purposefully. You might not like it (I find it effective, adding more grit and depth), but don't mistake it for amateur work.
To find out more about the connection, look at this commentary. If you want more in depth information about the Mormons, look at mormon.org, an official "info" site from the Church.
Interesting to see the basis of some of the things in the show...
The creators of Battlestar are urging people not to torrent the show, because if nobody's watching it on the actual television, it'll get cancelled even if half the world is torrenting the episodes. If you like Battlestar, do yourselves and the rest of us the favor of tuning in. It really is rather unfortunate, if you think about it, that the audience most likely to love this show matches up so well with the audience most likely to download it rather than watch it on TV.
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