a description of the amazing and exciting adventures i have here in baltimore--- and other lies.

 
When I was younger, I loved to watch science fiction shows. I would sneak Star Trek whenever I could, I loved Planet of the Apes (even though I would not understand the underlining message until many years later) and I thought Battlestar Galactica was super. I had a lot of the action figures for these shows, and Star Wars, and Space 1999.

However, Phantom Menace, Atack of the Clones, POTA re-done with Markie Mark, and some of the Trek movies ("What does God need with a Starship?") have made me jaded against any re-make of my beloved childhood classics. SciFi network has done a lot to cement the oldies in my head, as they played Galactica and Trek alot, and even played the abomninable Galactica 1980, which was as painful to watch as I thought it would be, and a lot stupider than I remember.

With that said, the remake of Battlestar Galactica is far more thoughtful and far less
cheesy than I expected it to be. I have not read any other blog concerning this matter,
at least as of yet, and I will not go looking for it. I cannot tolerate fanboys and their
nonsense for too terribly long, and have lost patience with any and all LOTR freaks
who make it their life's work to find picayune mistakes in the movie adaptations of
Tolkien's books. The remake of BA is fairly thoughtful, and it seems to address some
of the issues of today, e.g., the tensions between military and civilian in a crisis, the
issue of women in command of executive office, the larger fear of technology abused
by humans coming back to haunt us. In the original series, the Cylons were a
reptillian race who traded skin for metal and became cybornetic organisms. In the new
version, the robots are created by us and then subsequently abused by humans.
They exact their revenge in terms of war, and after costly losses for both sides, come
to detante. This is where we have the tension, of man vs. the machine he created, akin
to your Frankenstein's monster or golem more than Terminator.

But the miniseries hints that we reap what we sow. I have to watch tonight to see the
resolution to the crisis. More analysis tomorrow.

However, the actual point I wanted to make was that pop continues to eat itself, but
it is not always bad. I will talk more about this in the next installment, but, as we read
in Ecclesiates:“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (1:1-3)
So let pop eat itself; we didn't start the fire.




posted by gregorio at 8:26 PM