As you can tell from the one day header change I am pretty pumped!!! Tonight is the night of the Final Season Premire
Ok Look at the intriguing Photo that was released for the Final Season
Let us compare it to the real thing
One person has given her interpretation with aid of her Catholic Education she notes.
Catholic Media Review is a fan and has some good links here to a Catholics in arts view on it at BSG
Interesting read here and also a good one for first time viewers at Ready to Blast Off Soon into ... Battlestar Galactica's Spiritual Cosmos?
The Spero Forum has been running a thread here for the past couple of months
Temptation Alert-DO NOT CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS IN TONIGHT'S EPISODE- FIGHT THE URGE- OFFER IT UP :)
This is find in one of the links above but this Catholic Screenwriter really puts into words about what I like about this show. It is worth quoting:
And the complexity just gets better when it is echoing all the issues of post-9/11 geo-politics. It is very hard to watch BSG and not want to have discussions afterward about politics and war. I think the net result of the show’s complexity is to move the audience away from self-righteousness and towards compassion. Because these issues are fundamentally complex, despite the highly polarized climate these days in which each side just wants to point at the other and dismiss them as stupid. As in, "The War in Iraq is stupid. We should get out." Or, "It's stupid to think that everybody everywhere doesn't want American style democracy." Both of these are over-simplifications that encourage people to posture about with a sense of superiority. There is something about the way BSG establishes ambiguity in so many of the issues that leaves me really, really glad that I'm not the one who has to make the call that the characters are having to make. There is no possibility of posturing simple and superior. The show makes me want to pray for people with power. And to be clear, it’s not that BSG makes things like torture ambiguous. But it definitely gives you a sense of how and why terror and social disorder drive people to try torture as a solution. Or else stealing elections. Or resorting to martial law. Or trampling on civil liberties.
I shall update more throughout the day as Hopefully more Catholic and other Christian Bloggers comment
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