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Originally Posted by Livingston

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Yeah, it's a little more evident in Caprica than in BSG, especially with the Soldiers of the One group. I'm looking forward to it coming back in the fall.

Hope they do better because they're monitoring the ratings on the Gateworld Forum and it's apparently dropping steadily as is SGU. The negativity against SGU is so massive the owner of Gateworld is now attempting regulate the SGU bashing on the web site and has even restructured the Forum in kind.

You are not lying. I promised to stick with the show for an entire season before I let it go some I'm still..."On board" but this is one of the most boring shows I've ever seen. So little happens every week. (which isn't necessarily bad) I'm just pulling out my hair at why they do somethings, why do the Fans like this show and why am I supposed to like SGU.

I love character driven plots but something still has to happen. You can't neglect the principle plot concerns either. Creating contrivances to cover over plot holes doesn't look that much better than the plot hole itself. It seems so lazily and I heard they did this show LITERALLY to keep a certain writer on board and go where Stargate hasn't gone before.

I miss the fun, the innocence, the lovable characters and the warm fuzzy moments like when Ronon hugs Shepperd when they leave Atlantis or when Carson dies or when Weir died. The Greatness of the city....the battles...oh the battles.

Rising, Adrift, First Strike...were some favorites....and I'll always love them.

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I see what you're talking about in your spoiler but I disagree. That character was an evil disgusting bastard, they could've expressed that in other ways than showing him kill the kid but it certainly made the point. That was a straight to DVD release. I don't think they could show that on TV that graphically.

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Yeah I know people thought it was a great point to make but they showed it on cable TV. I had no tolerance at all for those kinda points made so graphically. That crossed the line.

Look at the Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus. This play is performed around the world and studied in colleges everywhere. In it, a woman is raped, her tongue cut out and then she is dismembered and branches of a tree forced in what's left of her arms. In addition two brothers are murdered, mutilated and put into a stew and then fed to their mother unbeknownst to her.

That's sick.

Certainly Shakespeare's bloodiest and most violent play, but still considered a masterpiece and revered everywhere. Then there are the Greek tragedies. Anything in BSG is absolutely tame compared to these, but when murdering a child in cold blood is considered tame, you have a point.

I hate regretting watching an obviously good show just because a tendency of the writers to add visually indecent acts. I hear people rave about the shows but all I can see is the vivid amoral. I can't be a good christian watching this show. I don't want to be desensitized toward violence...I want to remain just as sensitive to the suffering of others as I've always been.

That's something I didn't have to EVER worry about with Atlantis.

But by the same token there are many stories in the bible especially the old testament where this is common. Herod and the slaughter of the innocents, Lot being seduced by his own daughters, Abraham willing to kill his own son to appease God, though God is merciful in that instance and does not put Abraham through that. Regardless, I see your point, but anything that's happened in the BSG series is tame compared to the acts depicted in many of what are considered to be the greatest works of human canon so to speak.

But there is a different between thing written as history for our instruction and things vividly shown to us for...entertainment. That goes for the Passion of the Christ too. The point of the Bible isn't to entertain by shock value it's to learn a lesson. There is no entertainment factor at all in the bible...trust me it's not that exciting as a book after you get passed Genesis.


They need some kind of rating system because I'm just ready to stop watching Sci Fi period because of this network. I don't want to be offended in my own home. I just want to watch good exciting shows.