It was probably always going to go that way - the original series was so full of Mormon theology, that the new remake was always going to have religious undertones to it.
Still, they could have toned down the “Starbuck is space Jesus” thing a bit.
I think my problem with it is that it just transplanted the regular nonsensical ad hoc deity that works in mysterious ways into anotherwise realistic SF drama. That’s extremely unsatisfying to create a machina whole cloth and still need to Deus ex your way out.
Yeah, agreed. All that groundwork of gritty and brutal politics, war, ethics, survival, difficult choices etc touched on a lot of contemporary issues at the time, then all seems a bit wasted by Space Jesusing the end of it.
It was probably always going to go that way - the original series was so full of Mormon theology, that the new remake was always going to have religious undertones to it.
Still, they could have toned down the “Starbuck is space Jesus” thing a bit.
I think my problem with it is that it just transplanted the regular nonsensical ad hoc deity that works in mysterious ways into anotherwise realistic SF drama. That’s extremely unsatisfying to create a machina whole cloth and still need to Deus ex your way out.
Yeah, agreed. All that groundwork of gritty and brutal politics, war, ethics, survival, difficult choices etc touched on a lot of contemporary issues at the time, then all seems a bit wasted by Space Jesusing the end of it.