10-15-2009, 04:08 PM
Every story is pretty much based on the same basic human archetypes and just remade with details relevant to the culture and time it is being told.
The new Battlestar Galactica is just the Aeneid for 21st century nerds. (Humans are the remenants of destroyed Troy fleeing for a new home, baltar is the Trojan Horse, Adama/Apollo Aeneas/Aecanius, New Caprica = Crete, etc. etc.)
I always love when a music/literature/film critic calls something derivative, as if there has been a truly original piece of 'art' in the past 2000 years. Every idea builds off of other ideas.
The new Battlestar Galactica is just the Aeneid for 21st century nerds. (Humans are the remenants of destroyed Troy fleeing for a new home, baltar is the Trojan Horse, Adama/Apollo Aeneas/Aecanius, New Caprica = Crete, etc. etc.)
I always love when a music/literature/film critic calls something derivative, as if there has been a truly original piece of 'art' in the past 2000 years. Every idea builds off of other ideas.