If I wanted to get religion shoved down my throat, I would have just stepped my atheist ass into church BSG.
In a world of paying bills and cursing no good drivers on my way to the cursed 9 to 5 that allows me to pay said bills, I've found there is ever decreasing time to enjoy the finer things in life such as gaming or quality movies/tv.
Much like you, the quality time that I am able to sit with a cold one in hand, a remote in the other, I expect to be left the hell alone and have some quality chill time. Over the last four years, there was one show that I allowed to occupy my precious free time. That show was the remake of Battlestar Galactica.
It was fresh. Bold. Innovative. It broke the sci-fi mold. For a show based in science-fiction, BSG adhered to a pretty feasible, solid scientific standing. The technology was in a believable realm of possibility, people behaved normally from sex life to emotions (murder, revenge, bitterness and so on) and seldom were any punches pulled. The show had a nice gritty realism, something that was a far jump from other space shows like Trek.
Even when the show tied in cultural elements of religion, it was always from a sense of mythology making allusions to historical events, rather than mythology being stated as hard fact. I found this to be refreshing, as Christianity (monotheism) was treated with the same relevance as Greek myth and other polytheistic traditions.
Season 4 rolled in and I was forced to ask, 'What the frak is up with Starbuck?" Her story seemed to be taking an odd, tales of the unexplained turn. It started to happen more and more, these small little tales of the unexplained in the storyline.
Like millions of other people, I fully expected those little holes to be somewhat tied up in the season finale (
full synopsis here). But no, it was not. Instead what we got was one of the biggest, the writers wrote themselves in a corner and cried Mary events in modern television.
These guys had the audacity to take all the 'unexplained tales' and say, "They were angels!". Then they said the show was all part of God's divine plan!
If I were religious I'd do everything from burn flags like the Muslims and call for national boycotts like the eternally butthurt Christians, because the writers couldn't get themselves out of a whole, and just like when people cannot figure something out, they turned to religion. Unbelievable.
Once again, religion screwed us over because people were too lazy to think for themselves.
In closing let us find holiness in the bodies of Six and the ridiculous Grace Park. It's hard to decide who's hotter and if you have links to finale throw them up so others can properly bitch too.
