Stargate is for atheists?

[anotheranon]

Hmm....

Been watching season 9 of Stargate. I'm about 3 episodes in and able to keep up - the series seems to have "rebooted" when they brought Ben Browder on board.

In addition to Claudia Black in a corset, I'm noticing a distinctly anti-religious bent to the story: lots of talk about how just because beings are on a "higher plane of existence" and have real power doesn't mean they deserve worship, and references to freeing other people from the influence of false gods.

I find this theme intriguing, because Zogby et. al. paint the U.S. as a largely religious country yet Stargate seems to be enormously popular (at least for a sci-fi series). Are earlier seasons like this as well?

Comments

[skill-grl.livejournal.com]

Yup. Claudia Black's costumes are drool-worthy in that season. Sigh. I like that season.

[badmagic.livejournal.com]

Dunno. "Freeing people from false gods" is one of the things a Christian is supposed to do.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have been terribly surprised if the writers had taken that tack, but they didn't - in one episode they have Colonel Mitchell (Ben Browder's character) comparing his grandmother's Bible-beating ways unfavorably to the villian clergy's evangelizing.

And this latest episode (the 4th? 5th? of season 9) demonstrates the evils of false gods, introduces the idea that species with superior tech need not be worshiped, and talks about the virtues of free will.

Promising..

[semmie17.livejournal.com]

I know there's a plot somewhere in Season 9... and then Claudia Black comes in, wearing something slinky and leathery, and I lose track. **glassy eyes**

('scuse me while I lick the screen....)

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Just saw the episode where Vala impersonates a god... in a haltertop dress... Hell, I know I'd be on MY knees...