I think it was more Marxist than Maoist and pretty conciliatory in its conclusions but since the strongest part of the episode was setting up the situation, it won’t have been everybody’s cup of political tea.
Esther Summerson was the heroine of Bleak House and probably not the best example of the point I wanted to make, there’s a little more to her than most of the ‘good’ women in Dickens. Little Joe was a pretty classic ‘puppy’ though.
With the book I don’t think they were saying that the people reading it had become followers of Baltar, in fact part of the reason it was effective is that they still despised him personally after reading it. The book was catalyst not cause. Just because Baltar is ‘evil’ doesn’t mean he can’t make a persuasive argument or articulate pre-existing discontents. The reverse is certainly true historically, the British rejected Churchill in the polls after the war in spite of his hero status.
It had to be Chief, the point wasn’t to be against the military but for the workers by the workers and Anders hasn’t been shown to be anything other than an ex-sports star in civilian life. Chief had been elected the Union leader on New Caprica so although the strike call completely followed dramatic rather than democratic conventions they could just about get away with it.
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Date: 2007-03-03 05:23 am (UTC)Esther Summerson was the heroine of Bleak House and probably not the best example of the point I wanted to make, there’s a little more to her than most of the ‘good’ women in Dickens. Little Joe was a pretty classic ‘puppy’ though.
With the book I don’t think they were saying that the people reading it had become followers of Baltar, in fact part of the reason it was effective is that they still despised him personally after reading it. The book was catalyst not cause. Just because Baltar is ‘evil’ doesn’t mean he can’t make a persuasive argument or articulate pre-existing discontents. The reverse is certainly true historically, the British rejected Churchill in the polls after the war in spite of his hero status.
It had to be Chief, the point wasn’t to be against the military but for the workers by the workers and Anders hasn’t been shown to be anything other than an ex-sports star in civilian life. Chief had been elected the Union leader on New Caprica so although the strike call completely followed dramatic rather than democratic conventions they could just about get away with it.