I liked the "gods" stuff. But it got embarrassing when they suddenly shifted from letting the characters say "goddamned" and made everyone say "gods-damned." Feh. Gimme shelter.
I will wait for the final moments of the show to make my judgement about whether their heavy reliance on religion was good or bad for my taste. It was done right on Deep Space Nine, and hardly ever done at all anywhere else, much less done well. (Babylon 5 tried, and made a total joke of it, alas.)
Lee as President? Hee. I'll look forward!
"At least there isn't the Statue of Liberty sticking up somewhere" -- but we need that. Either that, or the Eiffel Tower. How about if they found that globe thing and fountain and big panel with the writing on it that's in Cardiff? I dislike all this "America after the holocaust" crap. It was done right in a handful of things in the earlier decades of modern sci fi, and has not been done right since then to my knowledge. Enough, already. There was a perfectly lovely little future-devastation story called "Heart's-Ease" that used the premise that the islands of Britain had gone totally ga-ga and were back in the culture of the early Middle Ages, while everyone in Europe kept trying to sneak agents in and find ways to help them stop being so ignorant and oppressive. One of the agents was stoned as a witch, and good thing he was wearing a kevlar suit. But still -- ouch. Strange, strange little story.
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Re: warning: BG spoilers may follow
Date: 2008-09-09 03:15 am (UTC)I will wait for the final moments of the show to make my judgement about whether their heavy reliance on religion was good or bad for my taste. It was done right on Deep Space Nine, and hardly ever done at all anywhere else, much less done well. (Babylon 5 tried, and made a total joke of it, alas.)
Lee as President? Hee. I'll look forward!
"At least there isn't the Statue of Liberty sticking up somewhere" -- but we need that. Either that, or the Eiffel Tower. How about if they found that globe thing and fountain and big panel with the writing on it that's in Cardiff? I dislike all this "America after the holocaust" crap. It was done right in a handful of things in the earlier decades of modern sci fi, and has not been done right since then to my knowledge. Enough, already. There was a perfectly lovely little future-devastation story called "Heart's-Ease" that used the premise that the islands of Britain had gone totally ga-ga and were back in the culture of the early Middle Ages, while everyone in Europe kept trying to sneak agents in and find ways to help them stop being so ignorant and oppressive. One of the agents was stoned as a witch, and good thing he was wearing a kevlar suit. But still -- ouch. Strange, strange little story.
And I miss Number Six.
Whoa! Where is she?