{"id":8644,"date":"2016-02-11T08:30:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2016-02-10T22:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T06:09:27","slug":"is-this-where-battlestar-galactica-got-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/11\/is-this-where-battlestar-galactica-got-started\/","title":{"rendered":"is this where battlestar galactica got started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so Battlestar Galactica<\/i>, right? The excellent reboot which was a remake of the Glen Larson 1970s better-than-first-impression demi-classic. Mormonism plus Ancient Astronauts = Space Apocalypse and\/or Space Adventures, depending.<\/p>\n

I’ve never really studied how far back that whole Ancient Astronauts bullshit goes, because I have better things to do with my life, but I stumbled across something today. Could this bit of I-can-see-how-you-get-there-but-wow nuttiness from the March 1961 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact<\/i> be the starting point<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The article is called “The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel,” and its thesis is that they were not so much angels as space travellers, misinterpreted. Only it’s not really billed as fiction, it’s more of a “what if?” kind of piece.<\/p>\n

Searching around for more about the “Ezekiel” author, I found this blog post from a “UFO Investigator”<\/a> which talks about how you can draw a straight line from Jack Kirby’s comic book character, “Metron,” to this very article<\/em> in Analog<\/i>. Halperin asserts Metron is Metatron – which I think we all have to agree is the most Kirby name ever invented for an angel, but that’s beside the point – with the serial numbers filed off, and points at the similarities in drawings between the article and the comics.<\/p>\n

So – Analog Science Fiction and Fact<\/i> (1961) to Jack Kirby’s Metron (1971) to D\u00e4niken’s Chariots of the Gods<\/i> (who even cares get out of here you hack<\/small>) to Glen A. Larson’s Battlestar Galactica<\/i> (1978) and BSG<\/i> (2007)? Is this a thing?<\/p>\n

And if so, does Neon Genesis Evangelion<\/i> belong in here too?<\/p>\n

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I don’t even know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so Battlestar Galactica, right? The excellent reboot which was a remake of the Glen Larson 1970s better-than-first-impression demi-classic. Mormonism plus Ancient Astronauts = Space Apocalypse and\/or Space Adventures, depending. I’ve never really studied how far back that whole Ancient Astronauts bullshit goes, because I have better things to do with my life, but I [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8649,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}