So I asked SGA's Joe Mallozzi a related question at his blog... ( and got the following response )

As a person of faith who's also an unabashed science fiction and fantasy fan, my interest was piqued by this recent article on God Is My Co-Pilot (spoiler warning for BSG) which looks at how scifi embraces (or not) religious issues.

Despite a recent trend toward secularism, God is still front and center in the ages old debate between science and ( Read more... )

I have a lot of respect for Ron Moore and co for successfully positioning BSG as a "serious space drama."  That said, the series lost some of its appeal for me since mid S2 when it used one too many plot devices, melodramatic social commentaries and also butchered Lee Adama's story line (even if there was some master plan for this, the execution ( Read more... )

Work-life balance (or the lack thereof) and certain individuals have made work a real bitch lately. I just got back from a long business trip in Europe, haven't seen the hubby in a week as he's now off in Vietnam, and am too exhausted to "go out." Instead, I spent this evening catching up with sci-fi TV shows and fanfic, and hawkers food (aka local ( Read more... )

"Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible." - Rod Serling, creator, The Twilight Zone

This article in The Guardian discusses the reversal of fortune for sci-fi since the days of classic Star Trek, Doctor Who and Star Wars, to today's prime-time network hits: Lost, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica. Here's ( Read more... )

I might be in the minority, but I'm looking forward to BSG's final season. The series started out strong, and now could potentially end really strong after floundering somewhat through S2 and S3. Meanwhile, I'd read that Eick and Moore were planning variations of the show for BSG fans and am intrigued by these rumours on Razor, the proposed ( Read more... )

It's a week of mixed news for BSG fans. While the show won a Saturn Award for Best Syndicated / Cable TV Show, Eddie Olmos and Katee Sackhoff mentioned that next season will be its LAST, citing "it's expensive, we don’t have the viewership that a great show should get," and Eddie's "in respects of the way we have this show constructed, this is the ( Read more... )