Franchises Of The Living Dead

[Monterey Jack]

A Doomcock Halloween special...!

[AndyDursin]

Oh that's brilliant I have to check that out later tonight!

[Eric Paddon]

Well done. There are so many franchises that have been ruined that could have earned their own tombstone as well.

I could go into a long litany about the Ron Moore Battlestar Galactica was one of the biggest trendsetters in this area of trashing the positive values of the original for the sake of pushing dysfunctional woke agendas, but that would take forever.

[Paul MacLean]

I could go into a long litany about the Ron Moore Battlestar Galactica was one of the biggest trendsetters in this area of trashing the positive values of the original for the sake of pushing dysfunctional woke agendas, but that would take forever.

I don't feel the Moore reboot really succumbed to wokeness. Yeah, Starbuck and Boomer were changed to women, but on the other hand, a white actor was cast as Colonel Tigh.

Commander (or Admiral) Kane was also played by a woman, but as the charcter turned out to be an icy, sadistic lesbian, it could just as easily be read as a condemnation of feminism.

In any case, I personally preferred the sight of these two over Herb Jefferson, jr. and Dirk Benedict...

[Eric Paddon]

Actually because Tigh was turned into a dysfunctional drunk and a thoroughly dislikable character, it represented the woke agenda by making sure he was played by a white bread actor rather than still being a black man from my standpoint.

The instant I saw what had been done to Starbuck when I had fits watching the original miniseries I knew the next thing Moore was going to do was turn Commander Cain into a lesbian female, because no way was he going to allow the other classic action hero warrior exist in his universe. So again, that was part of the same pattern by taking a character who was iconic in the Galactica universe and deliberately subverting it so no such character could exist in his universe.

The original series had a positive view of faith and the Colonial system was rooted in a monotheistic structure. Moore and company subverted that by making the Cylons monotheists and the Colonials pagan polytheists and he gave us a universe that instead of affirming the concept of Good vs. Evil and codes that exist that even applied to the Devil, was dark and nihilistic on all levels. Another classic example of the woke agenda playbook in action.

As for the women on that show not one of them is worth looking at more than the women of the original from my standpoint. Give me Anne Lockhart, Laurette Spang, Maren Jensen and Sarah Rush any day of the week.

[Paul MacLean]

The original series had a positive view of faith and the Colonial system was rooted in a monotheistic structure.

I have to be honest, I always felt the original series danced around the specific beliefs of the colonists. While the characters frequently invoked "God", they would as often remark "Thank the Lords of Kobol" (in contrast the the Juseo-Christian expression "Thank the Lord", singular). Who were the "Lords of Kobol"? Did the colonists believe (and worship) multiple "messianic" figures (as "thank the Lords" would suggest)?

The planet Kobol has Egyptian pyramids (which would infer Egyptian religious beliefs). Plus that episode's title, "Lost Planet of the Gods", and characters named after Greek deities (Apollo, Athena) strongly suggest polytheism.

So I see the original Galatica as more of a pastiche of ancient beliefs, and influenced by the "Chariots of the Gods" and "ancient astronauts" fad of the 1970s. (Beyond that, Gen Larson was a Mormon, which rules-out any purely scripture-based agenda on his part.)

As for the women on that show not one of them is worth looking at more than the women of the original from my standpoint. Give me Anne Lockhart, Laurette Spang, Maren Jensen and Sarah Rush any day of the week.

Spang and Jensen were dishes, I absolutely agree, but I like Korean women, so they can't compare to Grace Park as far as I'm concerned!

[Eric Paddon]

The "Lords" reference is easily explainable in a monotheistic context as being a counterpart for "Saints". Catholics invoke Saints but that doesn't make the faith polytheistic. In addition, the novelization of the second episode "Lost Planet Of The Gods" (under its original title "Tombs of Kobol") has a lengthy explanation that the faith is monotheistic at one point. (The change in episode title to the more melodramatic one undoubtedly caused confusion). While there are occasional inconsistencies, the overwhelming weight of the evidence shows a monotheistic based faith and Ron Moore was once again showing his ignorance when he altered it (this is a guy who also couldn't get it right that Pyramid is a card game and Triad is the game you play on the court).