And speaking of Hitler, the problem with most superheroes being depicted in that war is why they didn’t kill or capture him.

Ares, the epic Greek god of war, as a middle-aged British man with a silly 1910s mustache

It’s a fun trope to play with Hitler’s fascination with the supernatural, but it would not be fun to suggest that Hitler’s rise to power and command over the German people was a result of supernatural influence.

It’s that kind of demonic image of the Germans that was also whipped up by Allied propaganda and helped to ensure that the Treaty of Versailles was so punitive. Maybe we should just be grateful the screenwriters didn’t go with Kaiser Kong as their villain.

IN A WORLD
Ruled by the iron fist of Rome
Where faith is threatened
Even death
Could not stop
One Man
From meeting his Destiny

A show that was ahead of its time and unfortunate to run on the wrong network.

He’s considered a catch in hell.

The only lesson they want to teach us plebeians in this regard is the same it’s been for thousands of years - quod licet iovi, non licet bovi (colloquically: “Gods may do what cattle may not”).

That’s barely a blip on the Kylo Ren scale, but it did make me laugh.

But calicos are adorable. Who wouldn’t start a war humanitarian invention over this little fellow?

Pacta sunt servanda - agreements must be kept.

What I find most infuriating is the luddite, fundamentalist critique of technology as inherently bad, culminating in a finale that can only be described as disturbing: Remember how everyone, and I do mean everyone just magically agrees to destroy the fleet, and with it almost all the technology, agrees with not…

(the interior sets of the ships were monotonous and unimaginative, while the exterior shots were made up of the fugliest CGI since Alex Mack)

Raiders Of The Lost Ark has the same problem, yet is still an awesome film.

Of course the top brass in the military and government of the twelve colonies must have been an incredible band of morons and idiots to make the decision of connecting their entire fleet via “the internet” (the “defense mainframe” as it was called in the show), given that their only antagonist and entire raîson d’être…

Because that’s exactly how it was written.

Which is why Babylon 5, a show that predates BSG for a decade, was such a visionary show for its time and has held up reasonably well (cheap special effects aside). The detailed series bible JMS wrote well before the pilot was filmed ensured that the dense mythology remained coherent right until the end. The man even…

Hollywood seems to love ginger cats.

Wes Anderson raises his hand politely.

If he starts moving around on a hover suspensor the young interns have cause to worry.