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Skriven 2007-01-14 08:23:23 av Vorlonagent (13561.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Suspension of disbelief - an open debate
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"Dwight Gruber" <dwightg@pacifier.com> wrote in message 
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> "Jon Schild" <jjs@aros.net> wrote in message
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>> ...But everyone has limits. I quit
>> watching BS Galactica very early in the revival series because I could
>> not suspend far enough to believe that a robot would be so well made and
>> well programmed that a human male having sex with that female robot
>> would be unable to tell it was not human...
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> I think your unwillng suspension of disbelief in this circumstances has
> stumbled over the essence of the show: when an automaton has been so well
> constructed and programmed to be indistinguishabel from a human, including
> the ability to interbreed, where/how do you draw the line to determine 
> what
> "human" actually is? This is a philosophical conundrum which has not yet
> occurred to the characters, either Cylon or Human...

That is one of the questions BSG asks, "What is human?"  and "What character 
traits describe themselves as  'human' or 'inhuman'?"

I had different problems.

All my critiques some from season 1 and the first half of season two because 
I dropped the show at that point.

SPOILERS, just to be safe.




































The characters emote genuinely but I have issue with the motivations that 
put them there.

In general, the characters don't act like disciplined military.  They act 
like people who happen to be wearing uniforms.  The fact they the actors 
generally played their roles well was almost enough to make me forgive the 
flaw.  But it bothered me almost every episode.

Adama's coup generated a good deal of drama but what the hades was he 
thinking?  He should never have recognized a civilian government that soon. 
The fleet was still in crisis and needed a single voice of authority.  But 
once he does something like that, it's twice as insane to knock that 
government over again.

Rosalyn's order to abort Sharon's baby made no sense.  Sharon made it 
possible for the fleet to survive a big attack (betryaing her own kind in 
the process) and THIS is the thanks she gets?  And Adama went along with it?

What tore it for me was the Cylon Sympathizers, whatever their name was, 
that started sabotaging the fleet blaming the Colonies for their own 
destruction by the Cylons.  I couldn't believe that any group of people 
could possibly end up blaming themselves so completely as to sabotage their 
own survival from within.

I gave BSG one mor episode..and it was the one where we find out Apollo has 
a girlfriend, heartstring-pulling sick daughter, the whole works.  Then he 
covienetly loses the girlfreind again so as to not mess up any other sexual 
tensions the show has going.

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