Love Sha're and Kasuf and Skaara! And Chaka is fantastic. I love Chaka episodes and how he relates to Daniel :)
The other disturbing thing is how the "north" chooses benevolent aliens to make into Gods, and the "south" chooses the demons. And of course, the religion of SG1 is a true religion.
I have to wonder how conscious the decision to make the Norse gods the White Hats was for the writers. They were already stuck with the Egyptians as bad guys, and if they wanted another ancient pantheon it was either the Norse or the Greeks/Romans. But yeah, I know what you mean about the north/south divide. (Of course, then we later see how almost every ancient culture's gods ended up as bad guys except the Norse gods and, um, Buddhism. Which, hmm.)
The religion of the SG-1, however... I think the show itself is actually very atheistic. Or at least promoting an "all gods and religions should be approached with P-90s locked and loaded" mentality. Except for General Hammond who says things like "Godspeed" and "pray for your safe return", we don't really get any positive representation of Christianity. Jack (or at least my Jack (http://www.livejournal.com/users/scrollgirl/106035.html)) doesn't have much use for God. Sam is portrayed as too scientific for religious beliefs, and Teal'c looks at Christianity as merely another aspect of Tau'ri culture. (Daniel... is another matter. I'm not sure if he got religion, or just enlightenment. It's hard to say!)
And of course we have Kinsey, who is the stereotypical fundie Christian, foaming at the mouth, with more "faith" than brains.
I do find it all fascinating though! Heh, which you can tell by my very long posts :)
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The other disturbing thing is how the "north" chooses benevolent aliens to make into Gods, and the "south" chooses the demons. And of course, the religion of SG1 is a true religion.
I have to wonder how conscious the decision to make the Norse gods the White Hats was for the writers. They were already stuck with the Egyptians as bad guys, and if they wanted another ancient pantheon it was either the Norse or the Greeks/Romans. But yeah, I know what you mean about the north/south divide. (Of course, then we later see how almost every ancient culture's gods ended up as bad guys except the Norse gods and, um, Buddhism. Which, hmm.)
The religion of the SG-1, however... I think the show itself is actually very atheistic. Or at least promoting an "all gods and religions should be approached with P-90s locked and loaded" mentality. Except for General Hammond who says things like "Godspeed" and "pray for your safe return", we don't really get any positive representation of Christianity. Jack (or at least my Jack (http://www.livejournal.com/users/scrollgirl/106035.html)) doesn't have much use for God. Sam is portrayed as too scientific for religious beliefs, and Teal'c looks at Christianity as merely another aspect of Tau'ri culture. (Daniel... is another matter. I'm not sure if he got religion, or just enlightenment. It's hard to say!)
And of course we have Kinsey, who is the stereotypical fundie Christian, foaming at the mouth, with more "faith" than brains.
I do find it all fascinating though! Heh, which you can tell by my very long posts :)