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R.I.P Glen A. Larson

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Aziraphale:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 17 Nov 2014, 03:01 ---Watching the original BSG opening reminded me of how our fiction follows our society. When the show was created, the great uniting fear of Western society was a 'Red Storm' overwhelming military assault by a faceless, collectivist enemy without individuality or true humanity and aided by foolhardy and self-obsessed traitors (the Communist block, or at least the popular view of it). Whereas, when Ron Moore wrote his own version of the show, the West's overwhelming fear was destruction that came primarily from within in the form of fifth columnists, disguised as fellow citizens, driven by a murderous religious ideology (Islamicist terrorism).

A similar popular awareness is visible in seasons 8-10 of Stargate SG-1 with their new enemy - the religious fundamentalist followers of the Origin religion.

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I think Larson's Mormonism goes farther in explaining the initial version of Battlestar (though I think you're right that the reboot was very much influenced by current events). I didn't notice the theological aspect to it initially (I was six years old when the first one came out, and I don't think I gave it much thought beyond, "Spaceships! Cool!"), but years later, having read up on the theology and especially the history of Mormonism, it made a lot of sense.

Kugai:
Hey, at least he wasn't L. Ron.

Aziraphale:

--- Quote from: Kugai on 17 Nov 2014, 21:32 ---Hey, at least he wasn't L. Ron.

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Or Orson Scott Card.

To clarify, neither man's Mormonism bothers me. In Larson's case, it's just an added dimension to his storytelling, and in Card's case... well, he's just a colossal prick, but that has nothing to do with the fact that he's a Mormon.

And L. Ron... that there's a level of cynicism that'd make Ayn Rand blush.

Kugai:
The sad thing about L. Ron is he's one of the Sci-Fi authors of that era known as 'The Golden Age'.  A contemporary of such lights as Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke et-al, yet he seriously lost the plot at some stage and started believing in his own hype and started Scientology.

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