reason number 6,877,642 why i dig Ron Moore

[somedaybitch]

I hope this show makes you think. I hope this show makes you question the moral choices that are being made in your name and by your representatives. I hope this show angers you at times and makes you outraged at the actions that good people like Kara and Laura sometimes take. But the show is not a polemic; our aim is not to screech and demagogue these issues in search of facile answers. Good people can make bad, even horrific decisions, just as bad people can make noble, even righteous ones. Balancing civil liberties with security is a complicated, difficult gymnastic act which defies the easy, pat answers typically served up by an hour of episodic television.

there's a sharp guy.

....it also brings up a question I'm often asked -- namely what are the politics of the show and what is its political agendat? The quick answer is that the show doesn't really have a political agenda in the sense that it's neither liberal nor conservative in the way those labels are thrown around in the sound-bite era of demagoguery that currently passes for political discourse in this country. One would be hardpressed to say that watching Laura Roslin break her word to a prisoner and then kick him out an airlock would be advancing a progressive, liberal agenda, or that Adama questioning his society's worthiness to be saved is somehow indicative of a conservative bias.

hat tip again to shawn at bsg_news, who has a link.

Comments

[thevaliumsofalj.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that they're bringing up the hard questions and illustrating just how hard the answers are...

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

"...and illustrating just how hard the answers are..."

yes, this. ideals and rules and laws are one thing. reality is a whole 'nuther clusterfuck all together.

[suenix.livejournal.com]

Okay I like this guy. He has talent and the
smarts to defend his choices. His story telling
is rock solid. And the characters are given a
chance to really evolve.

I WILL be watching next season.

Suenix

P.S. love the icon.

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

isn't he sharp?

P.S. love the icon.

helo or creegan?

[suenix.livejournal.com]

That would be cregan.

Another one that I love.

Suenix

[somedaybitch.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm, creegan. did you catch the actor in the 2nd season ep of Witchblade? ohmilordsofkobol, he was hot.