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The Night Battlestar Galactica Took Over The U.N.
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(Sadly, I could not figure out how to incorporate a venereal disease.)
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There are just those out there who haaate sci fi in any form, and will cling to that hatred until the day they die. Silly, and they're just missing out anyhow (I'm looking at you, MOM.)
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When I called the UN, I was given the Orwellian explanation that the public couldn't go, because it wasn't being held "in a public place."
WTF did that mean? I could have asked to go as a journalist, but I had no reason to cover this. And as someone who has been to a thousand of these types of events, I knew there would be plenty of random schmoes there (i.e. press, friends of friends, what have you).
It's just kind of weird to seriously talk about human rights and then set up an elitist event. And yeah, I know you invited 100 high school kids, but... I dunno. Still didn't ring right to me.
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I watched some of the video from the UN website and it seemed like it turned out really great.
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Pegasus-Six (Gina...really one of the best characters the show ever had) was really just revenge. I don't even think they ever got actual "information" out of her successfully, while Caprica-Sharon (Athena) actually "defected" sort of to the humans and at the same time, was willingly telling them Raider combat specifications, etc.
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If this post is about an actual, serious event and not a tongue-in-cheek joke about how a fatuous sci-fi show is grandstanding and being taken way to seriously, then I am actually morally offended that this event took place.
If this is a joke, then it's slightly confusing??
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I dunno, I like to think that fiction (especially sci-fi) can often make people open their minds to new ideas. Real art (whether it be TV show, literature, etc) should be more than something to entertain us.
That being said, this is still a weird effing event.
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Let me just say that I don't even have the words to describe how absolutely offensive this event is. It's shallow, venal, idiotic and offends me as a thinking being.
For a panel of actors and producers to assemble in front of a gathering of high school students, take questions from children and then berate the representative of an organization that actually tries to help the real world despite all its failings and setbacks seems to me to be the absolute height of hubris.
I understand that the UN is an organization that suffers from very poor and unfortunate marketing, but this event simply demeans them.
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So are you annoyed because you think this TV show is irrelevant to current issues, or just pissed because they're intellectualizing and relating a TV show to real problems? It seems like the latter, which I can empathize with if it were for shows I felt were irrelevant. But since I like BSG and I do feel that just because you're an actor doesn't mean you can't have an educated opinion on anything, I don't find this offensive. It's pretty obvious that they're trying to use a popular medium to relate larger real world issues with kids/people who normally don't care, but is there really an issue with getting people concerned and interested?
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The actors, writers and producers spent a hell of a lot of time thinking about the actions and reactions of those events, so why not bring them into this discussion?
Or more plainly -- even if you think this event did no good, how did it do harm to the UN?
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But don't just try to flame me. It won't work. You've done it before, if I recall and I worked out poorly for you. Just PM the account if you want to flame me. I never read it anyways.
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Bad. ASS.
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I love you Olmos.