Stargate

[NapoleonXIV]

And so SG enters its eighth???(ninth, I dunno) season. How much longer? esp. since an apparent spinoff/successor Stargate Atlantis is online soon? And how will they end it? Reveal themselves to the public, bury the Stargate, be killed by Anubis, be assimilated by...oh wait, sorry.

My other question is; isn't there anybody left who worships the Egyptian gods, and who feels offended that this show is saying they're all really evil aliens? I've noticed that the System Lords actually run the gamut of the non-Christian religions (and even intesect with them at one or two points). Isn't anyone in the religious community offended? Especially since most of these 'gods' are seen today as metaphors which still exist in modern religion as either Saints or Aspects of the Deity.

Don't get me wrong. I like the show and not least because the Goa'uld are about the most original and interesting villain races I've seen in a while. Its just sort of like Imhotep in the Mummy. Imhotep was one of the few Egyptian demigods who was unambiguously good, worshiped as Aesculapius by the Greeks and considered the first physician as well as the greatest engineer. It seemed unfair to use him as a villain just because most people would find his name vaguely familiar in an Egyptian kind of way.

[David Howery]

I don't think anyone worships the ancient Egyptian gods anymore... the Christians and then Muslims converted them all. The show also uses some Norse gods, and I think they made some of them up. One episode used Satan, and there is one named after one of the Chinese gods; those are the only two I know of that use names from current religions. You have to admit, most people won't know many of the names they use anyway, much less their origins to modern theologic thought, so damn few will be offended...

[david3565]

I don't think anyone worships the ancient Egyptian gods anymore... the Christians and then Muslims converted them all. The show also uses some Norse gods, and I think they made some of them up. One episode used Satan, and there is one named after one of the Chinese gods; those are the only two I know of that use names from current religions. You have to admit, most people won't know many of the names they use anyway, much less their origins to modern theologic thought, so damn few will be offended...

I know of at least one Isis cult around and I suspect there are some loons out there that have started up worship of other Egyptian gods. There are probably even a few still around in Egypt. However, there aren't going to be many who would be the intended audience