Wow ok...
All I can say is, I'm in my 30s... I grew up on TOS as a kid...
I grew up on Star Wars as well...
I've noticed that each incarnation of the Star Wars universe, is still targeted toward the child I once was... This irritates me... Something I love didn't grow up with me...
The BSG new series did... It isn't target toward the child I once was... and it IS realistic...
Is everyone blind to the way humans in this day and age really are?
We have real beheadings on the internet...
We have people strapping bombs to themselves and running into crowds...
During the Hurricane Katrina ordeal, we had looters killing other looters for their loot... People looting bodies of the dead laying in the streets... People trampling and killing other people in order to save themselves...
So many other evils going on in the world, which only get amplified during times of crisis and devastation... During these times, people are out for themselves... they are animals...
So why isn't it realistic that people behave the same way or worse when their entire world gets destroyed and they are trapped, stir-crazy and constantly being hunted down for termination? I have yet to see anything in TNS that I wouldn't think that people are capable of here and now...
As for the military, I spent a decade in the U.S. Army, in a combat arms unit, and have seen some awful things... There is no sugar-coating to make things go down easier... There is no hard candy shell to protect you... Some people just change during these situations and end up doing awful things...
So while some of you would rather avoid or denounce realism by hiding in the fru-fru cosmic joyride that TOS gives to you, I'd rather see truth depicted as well... the way humans *really* are... Of course TOS was more familiy friendly, the FCC/broadcasting laws were very different back then as were the target audiences...
TOS and TNS are works of art and expression...
TOS being more traditional while TNS being more avante-garde in their direction...
To ban, boycott, denounce, etc TNS is censorship and repression...
This is a huge sci-fi website... not unlike a huge art gallery...
You banish an avante-garde work in favor of the traditional old way...
So did Hitler...
Does TNS really have to be considered "Entartete Kunst"?
If the problem is that grown adults are actually being so juvenile as to fight/argue/flame each other over the differences of TV shows in the threads because they have no other outlets for frustration in their dull and pathetic lives, then just get rid of them... Hell, bring the section back and I will mod it... I'm admin on a couple boards now, I'm sure I can mod on yet another one...
The people who don't like TNS don't have to go into the section... I'm sure that people who don't like Stargate SG1 don't go into that section... Seems simple to me... Just like changing the channel when there is an infomercial on you don't want to see...
I like both shows, so I would fight just as hard to keep either one...
Just my two cents...
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