Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off the beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans. (The Constant Gardener).
Yes my friends: Season Three of Battlestar Galactica is dark indeed. What other program on American TV would dare show the use of suicide bombers to acheive a "justified" end? Ron Moore has something to say, and I can't stop listening.
Kara's undoing?
Kara's undoing?
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Battle Star Galactica? Never saw it and it sounds way to Trekky and stuff for me. Gonna keep laughing it up with the Simpsons, thank you.
Battlestar Galactica, although sounding nerdy, and a little trekish, isnt just for geeks with pocket protecter's. The current show draws parallels with current world events, and draws some interesting conclusions. The current storyline has very similar background to the Vichy government in France during the German occupation in WW2. I can't help but wonder if, by the end of the current season, we might be all supporting the Cylons - ok - I cant back that up :) Frak the toasters. Oh, and Manic, thanks for dropping by.
looking forward to the return of the series, just watched the first two episodes of the new series of lost, I'm now hooked again...
It was a long, harrowing wait for the new season to start, what?
Those cliff-hanger episode endings will be the death of me yet...
As for supporting the Cylons, it's interesting to note the pains they take to show them as a fracturing group of different aims and moral standing.
Big space battle next week!
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