The conclusions were conciliatory, true - I suppose the whole thing felt a bit warped to me, however, from the opening scenes of the President and the Admiral coming across unlike themselves, as though some photo effect had rippled them into a goofy view of them. They just seemed off to me.
And the plotline felt forced and therefore manipulated; I guess there was one brief reference to this situation in some episode at some point - at least that is all that I recall. And then fullout, so the pilots and the Admiral are viewed as representative of the oppressor class.
Were they the oppressor class, I wonder, when they were all getting radiation poison, flying flight after flight, and leading the entire fleet to safety. They seem to work their asses off a great deal of the time, while the engineers get to toil at home, near their loved ones, and are not risking their lives at all moments.
So I still don't get Callie's beef. They are all undermanned and at war.
I'm wondering whether civilians going on strike during WWII - especially in regard to industries needed for the war - was illegal.
As for Brits rejecting W.Churchill after the war. I still find it odd, and it apparently broke his heart.
As for the Maoist comment, I was thinking not of the strike, but of the solution, which was "to reeducate" the cultured and educated classes. I don't doubt that a solution would be necessary for a civilization stuck in this kind of ongoing crisis situation, I just felt manipulated by the plot of this one, and the cultural revolution solution. And perhaps even by the fact that BSG needs "a dire situation" every single week - I thinkk they could lay off of that for a while. I'm finding it a bit tiresome the last several episodes.
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Date: 2007-03-04 01:03 am (UTC)And the plotline felt forced and therefore manipulated; I guess there was one brief reference to this situation in some episode at some point - at least that is all that I recall. And then fullout, so the pilots and the Admiral are viewed as representative of the oppressor class.
Were they the oppressor class, I wonder, when they were all getting radiation poison, flying flight after flight, and leading the entire fleet to safety. They seem to work their asses off a great deal of the time, while the engineers get to toil at home, near their loved ones, and are not risking their lives at all moments.
So I still don't get Callie's beef. They are all undermanned and at war.
I'm wondering whether civilians going on strike during WWII - especially in regard to industries needed for the war - was illegal.
As for Brits rejecting W.Churchill after the war. I still find it odd, and it apparently broke his heart.
As for the Maoist comment, I was thinking not of the strike, but of the solution, which was "to reeducate" the cultured and educated classes. I don't doubt that a solution would be necessary for a civilization stuck in this kind of ongoing crisis situation, I just felt manipulated by the plot of this one, and the cultural revolution solution. And perhaps even by the fact that BSG needs "a dire situation" every single week - I thinkk they could lay off of that for a while. I'm finding it a bit tiresome the last several episodes.
Mara