Battlestar Galactica Last Supper

From a recent Entertainment Weekly spread, the Last Supper as posed by Battlestar Gallactica characters. Just in time for Passover, too. Sacrelicious! Link (via WTBW)

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Takuan

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It’s BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Kickass!

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Emma

Assumetehposition, the Last Supper was Jesus’s last meal – Passover is when Moses took the Jews from Egypt!

It would make a lot more sense to say “just in time for Easter” seeing as Easter marks Jesus’s death and rebirth, not Passover.
Antinous

Emma,

The last supper was a seder for Pesach. Jesus and his followers were Jews. Hello?
Takuan

and jesus probably looked a lot like this;
http://64bitheadlines.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/ahmadinejad.jpg

isn’t reality a bitch?
assumetehposition

You mean he wasn’t a blonde in a red dress? Darn.

I can’t believe you said Ahmadinejad looks like Jesus. Somehow I don’t think Iran’s premier would be happy with you.
Takuan

hey, some Semitic two thousand years ago is gonna look like Ahmadinejad a lot more than some blond, blue eyed, long haired,besandalled hippie.
Takuan

ah damn it!.. I meant to say “hair-farming soap dodger” not “hippie”….
ttcfcl

One more month!!!
horsepj

That’s not God, it’s a waffle!
0xdeadbeef

Wait, so does this mean Starbuck is secretly Six’s wife?

Hawt hawt hawt!
franko

let the speculation begin! remember, kids, the 5th cylon is NOT one of the people pictured…
assumetehposition

The Last Supper was a Passover supper.
Geoffrey Sperl

The Six in the middle is Baltar’s imaginary Six, though and not Caprica Six. I think it would be difficult to consider that Six as human. But does that mean Baltar will seek redemption? After all, the hybrid in “Razor” said the one would redeem themselves.

And Douglas’s dismissal is pretty hard to ignore. Moore likes playing with his audience and I doubt a marketing picture is going to give us much info.

Still a cool picture.
DrWho42

It was originally printed in “Entertainment Weekly”. For more information: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper

I think there’s credence in Aaron Douglas’ dismissal.
Antinous

The Middle East was already Greco-Romanized by that era. He could have looked European. Especially since we know that Joseph wasn’t his real father!

Joseph:You’re what! But we haven’t!

Mary:It was God. No, really.
Patrick Dodds

I’m not sure about that dress.
mappo

Franko: It’s Gaeta! That dirty toaster!
Takuan

Alright, I’m dating myself, but he had a squint and bad teeth. Dandruff too.
Jeff

It’s obviously putting a Cylon where Jesus should be. She’s dressed in red, which tells me she is representing the blood of Christ–his humanity. This show has raised the philisophical issue of what it means to be human, which I’m sure we’ll need to define before long. What happens when we’re digital? I hope the meatbags will let me retain my rights as a bit of copyright-protected intellectual property. I don’t want anyone having the right to copy me or use me without permission. I may be 1 and 0s, but I’m still a human being, damnit!
Takuan

“What if God was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make his way home

If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see
If seeing meant that
you would have to believe
in things like heaven and in Jesus and the saints
and all the prophets (*)”
tacticus

The picture is most awesome but i have one question
Where’s the kangaroo?
balexander667

I’m pretty sure that I read/saw this when I went to my in-laws on christmas day, and then magically yesterday someone posted it on the tubes and it’s brand new?
Bonnie

I could be biased but I think I like the Star Wars Last Supper painting better:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/17/star-wars-last-suppe.html
NikFromNYC

Use Photoshop to flip the image, horizontally. That matches moods and motives of each character MUCH better. Notice that a blue clad person is pointing to the center from the RIGHT side thus, casting doubt on the divinity of the female with a beard Son of God.

Also note the higher actual amount of sublimity of the Galactica image. Why Because Christ is not only androgynous (a machine), but is also invisible to everybody else, more or less, being looked at by only 4 people instead of 9.

A wet-robot Cyclon indeed would be more godlike than St. Paul’s version of Christ.
ogvor

Man, I thought I missed the beginning of the forth season last night (for some reason I thought I rememebred seeing the season starting up in March). Luckily (I guess) it’s in just one more month (and Season 3 is on DVD in 2 weeks! I know what I’m doing spring break).

Love the picture!
Art Carnage

Nice. But not as good as the Star Wars Last Supper posted on BB a few years ago.
Antinous

Ma nishtanah Cylon hazeh mikol Cylonot?
Art Carnage

And BTW, shouldn’t the corners of the picture be cut off? Somebody’s not paying attention.
Emma

What on earth does it have to do with Passover?
iamcantaloupe

There are a few of these going around, like the Star Wars one linked above as well as this one done with the cast of House.