The one thing that always kinda bothered me about BSG and now, apperantly Caprica, is the use of smoking to denote coping with stressful situations.

And in this day and age where smoking is very non-PC, to show over and over again in the Stolz/Morales promo shot seems pretty lame..

I make no apologies about my feelings about this, and yes, I know I don't have to watch it.. I just hate to think of a show with such good potential having to resort to a cliche to denote emotion..

Re: smoking - from what I've seen the world looks like a strange amalgam of 80s and 80s fashion and design with some futuristic stuff through it, so it could be part of trying to evoke that. Besides, BSG has never tried to comforting, it was always challenging and yet, oddly enough, quite often PC in the sense of portraying a society with true gender equality - which I rather think matters more than showing smoking.

I think what I'm trying to say is that it is not our world and it picks and chooses from values that may or may not be entrenched in our world, right?

Oops, 50s and 80s, i mean.

I hate smoking; I got an eye infection or something because I was hanging around this guy who kept smoking when we'd talk. The medical bill for getting help solving it cost my dad thousands of dollars to pay because I was just visiting Austria and didn't have a right to the coverage there.

Anyway, I also hate people getting drunk, but BSG has this, too. I don't think it's necessarily endorsing it, but I thought people did smoke in desperation -- just like when they drink. Maybe part of it has to do with Moore being a social smoker, too, though.

Regardless, I can't wait for this show, provided it has the same level of political insight and we don't get any Buffy-style melodrama from certain writers.

Still don't have a character of the quality of Baltar, though.

If you want to see Star Trek and be a part of a politically correct universe, whip out the DVD's and indulge yourself. Leave the BSG universe alone.

So what is PC, espoused by a vast majority of fascists and their sheep, should be stricken from entertainment and public display? Way to send our society backwards.

If we can't have smoking and drinking, lets not have death, adlut relationships, or terrorism. Heck lets just watch yo gabba gabba instead!

marillion: oh shut up. you are just so lame.

Smoking and drinking has been going on for more than a thousand years before today and is going to continue for thousands of years from here on. You can complain, whine, cry, and moan about people doing it everyday day for the rest of your lives, the government can pass all the laws and restrictions they can possibly think of against it, and you can still guarantee millions of people are still going to do it no matter what anyone says.

Bottom line everyone has free will if they want to do it leave them alone and let them do it, because complaining does nothing , but annoy others. And if you want to complain cause they are polluting your air well honestly noone says you have to sit next to them.

And drinking well some people shouldn't drink because they get violent or they decide to take a roadtrip. But as for others some people just like to drink some people it just relaxes them and all these religious people who look down upon them are just gonna have to get over it.

And this stuff has been going on in movies way before alot of you people were ever born. You can't live in society being against everything if you do noone is going to like you.

I think the issue is that the civilizations of Battlestar (and Caprica) are supposed to be more advanced than our own present day civilization (they have spaceships that travel faster than light and can create robots that are sentient). You would expect such an evolved civilization would realise the damage that smoking causes, especially since we've already gotten to that stage ourselves. Perhaps the cigarettes in the Galactica universe are herbal or something and dont pose the same health risks, but if this is the case I think the show needs to say so. Smoking in a show like Mad Men is appropriate because its set in a society that was less informed. Galactica and Caprica dont have that excuse.

I swear, some of you people need to step back, take a breath, and calm down. Interesting article about Esai Morales's take on on how his character fits in the over-all make-up of the future Admiral and what are some of you taking offense to? Smoking? Please...

Honestly, (and borrowing from RDM when he was talking about something else) if you can sit down and watch BSG or what we've seen of Caprica and the thing you walk away with is, "That sure was alot of smoking!"; you missed show. That simple.

Never ceases to amaze me how we Americans have such weird values nowadays. TV show has ppl getting graphically murdered-thats ok its just a show. Another has graphic love-scenes that are bare threads away from being porn-its part of the plot. But god forbid someone light up a smoke within a 25 mile radius of a camera. Then its like Hitler and Stalin both rose from the grave and have decided to be little-league coaches on your block.....

Taking my own advice now and stepping back. But seriously guys, smoking is bad-we get it. Now please, would you shut the hell up about it?

smoking has happened before and it will happen again :)

As I have said before (many times) and will now say again: BSG is not for liberal fascists.

BSG is for rational commonsensical people who live in the real word and have a true understanding of human nature.

The odd thing is - even though they spew their effete whiny complaints about the show ad infinitum - I am astounded by how many leftwing nuts 'religiously' watched BSG.