Well-argued and very interesting, though knowing absolutely nothing about BSG apart from what you've written here (plus that apparently, it has something to do with toasters) I cannot really agree/disagree with any specific point. Though one question, and please correct me if I'm wrong: as I understand it from this post, Cylons are (from a human perspective) unquestionably evil, correct? They are The Other, The Enemy - the Demon, to speak Buffyesque? Roslin was never appointed/elected/chosen to protect them as well as the humans? It's us or them, they are trying to eradicate mankind, and anything is better than that?
But like you say, the situations are completely different. Buffy's problem here is that she's had everything turn on her; from protecting humanity against the supernatural, she now sees herself forced to protect the supernatural against humanity. Buffy doesn't know who her enemy really is, whom they represent and what they stand for - and against whom she is supposed/allowed to fight. For all we know, by "doing whatever it takes to protect", acting as if it's us or them, she may well be making matters worse. Though I definitely agree that it would be nice if she were prepared to listen to her (human and demonic) critics and change policy accordingly, this issue showed her being dead set against exactly that. Roslin cannot (as far as I understand) possibly prove worse than her enemies; they are the monsters. Buffy, by acting the same way you say Roslin did, might just still become her enemies' best soldier. The kind of monster they imagine her to be.
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Date: 2008-01-10 02:46 pm (UTC)But like you say, the situations are completely different. Buffy's problem here is that she's had everything turn on her; from protecting humanity against the supernatural, she now sees herself forced to protect the supernatural against humanity. Buffy doesn't know who her enemy really is, whom they represent and what they stand for - and against whom she is supposed/allowed to fight. For all we know, by "doing whatever it takes to protect", acting as if it's us or them, she may well be making matters worse. Though I definitely agree that it would be nice if she were prepared to listen to her (human and demonic) critics and change policy accordingly, this issue showed her being dead set against exactly that. Roslin cannot (as far as I understand) possibly prove worse than her enemies; they are the monsters. Buffy, by acting the same way you say Roslin did, might just still become her enemies' best soldier. The kind of monster they imagine her to be.