Comments on: SBSG #1: The Cylon Who Knew Too Much

By: Zina

Zina — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:37:53 +0000

Hi Borellian,

Yes, we will be discussion Mormonism. There is a strong LDS Church story in the current series as well.

As far as the original series, we want to talk about the ship of lights and other images and ideas taken from the original series and subtly woven into the re-imagining.

Thanks for listening!

By: Borellian

Borellian — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:22:19 +0000

God said if Adam ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil then he would surely die on that day. The talking serpent, who was according to Genesis the most cunning of all the animals, was right; Adam did not die that day. Adam live for hundreds of yahrens.

Your podcast notes that you will be discussing the original series. Will you be discussing Mormonism? Mormonism is the key to TOS and may be the answer to the current series.

By: Christopher Humphries

Christopher Humphries — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:23:16 +0000

Excellent podcast, thanks! I really like bridging one of my favorite shows with my faith. Super awesome for my mind and soul!

By: Zina

Zina — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:43:11 +0000

Hi Chris,

You may certainly be spoiled.

However, I routinely read spoilers for movies that I want to see. If the movie is really good, the spoilers won’t interfere with my enjoyment of the story.

The writing, acting, and effects are so great in BSG. I actually watched the series out of order so I knew some things that happened. It really didn’t affect me.

I recognize that I am probably in the minority though…

Enjoy the show!

By: Fr. Roderick

Fr. Roderick — Sat, 17 May 2008 14:34:34 +0000

Chris, you definitely want to catch up first before listening to this podcast! Don’t even read these comments.. oops.. too late, I guess

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:40:01 +0000

I just started watching Battlestar Galactica – I’m currently on disc 3 of season 1. Can I listen to your podcast, or is it full of spoilers for those of us who have not caught up to the current season?

Chris

By: Domenico Bettinelli

Domenico Bettinelli — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:06:30 +0000

Oh believe me, I understand. I have often written in haste and corrected at leisure on my own blog. I can’t imagine that I would do even that well recording a podcast!

Looking forward to SBSG#2 right now. (Incidentally, my compliments on the production values too; very nice.)

By: Zina

Zina — Fri, 16 May 2008 04:16:21 +0000

Domenico, You are right. Thanks for the corrections. Jeff may actually elaborate more, but in short, misspeaking will happen when we record a first podcast (after putting kids to bed and tired from our “real” lives). We appreciate the feedback, and I am glad you enjoy the show! I am cleaning up SBSG #2 for release right now.

By: Domenico Bettinelli

Domenico Bettinelli — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:38:19 +0000

Good discussion! A couple of points about your reference to the Garden of Eden. First, it was not God who said don’t even touch the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but the serpent who was lying. He extended God’s command, making it more onerous. God only said not to eat of the fruit.

Second and more to your point in the show, it was not the tree of knowledge, per se, but the tree of the knowledge of *good and evil.* That is an important distinction because it’s the difference between interpreting that as God wanting to keep us ignorant or Him being anti-intellectual versus God wanting us to not sin.

Knowledge and “to know” in the Bible often means “to have intimate relations”, as in “Adam knew Eve and they had a son.” So what eating of the fruit of that tree did was to allow Adam and Eve to know, to become intimate not just with good, but also evil.

On point to your discussion, I can’t think of anywhere in Church teaching that we are told not to pursue knowledge of God or to plumb the depths of His mystery. In fact, we are encouraged to do so, as long as we keep in mind that we cannot truly know God, we can’t figure Him out, like a puzzle we solve. St. Thomas Aquinas spent a life time thinking about God and pursuing Truth, and while his may be the greatest intellect of all time, even he at the end of his life looked back on his great body of work and said, “It is all straw.”

There was no intellectual pride in him. He knew that even his great delving could not even scratch the surface of the Truth about God.

I look forward to more thought-provoking episodes of the Secrets of BSG.

By: Teresa Krone

Teresa Krone — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:22:58 +0000

I love it! Can’t wait for the next one!

By: Fr. Roderick

Fr. Roderick — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:34:44 +0000

At the moment, you can add the feed to iTunes manually, but the Secrets of Battlestar Galactica is not included in the iTunes library yet: a show must have a minimum of two episodes to be accepted by Apple. But I’m sure Zina and Jeff will do something about that

By: Aleigh

Aleigh — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:03:39 +0000

Itunes feed is updated. Its syncing right now to the IPOD. YIPPEE!!

By: Zina

Zina — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:46:53 +0000

Jeff, I don’t think the feed will be on iTunes till Monday. This is a sneak peek.

By: Terry H Jones

Terry H Jones — Mon, 12 May 2008 01:41:18 +0000

Won’t show in iTunes until a.m. Monday.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:33:52 +0000

Not finding the feed in iTunes. The link above is a Feedburner/Winpodder link, rather than a “phobos.apple.com” link.

By: mary

mary — Sun, 11 May 2008 23:41:31 +0000

It’s good to see you guys are on sqpn now.

By: Inge Loots

Inge Loots — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:05:50 +0000

Way to go Jeff and Zina. Excellent job! Well done!

By: Terry H Jones

Terry H Jones — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:37:24 +0000

Just learned that the “Final Season” goes on hiatus from the end of May until 2009. Grrrr….. Think I’m going to have to go find some one from SciFi and have a “discussion” with them.

By: Brad Newgent

Brad Newgent — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:32:01 +0000

I’m really looking forward to this podcast!