thread: 2005-10-05 : Various Media Comments
On 2005-10-05, Blankshield wrote:
The danger to kids thing goes away. The next bits are a little spoiler-ish, so I'll font them out.
The little baby at the beginning of the pilot, I flip-flop on. There's some compelling arguements that the scene isn't about "evil cylon babykillers, oooh, scary" but is actually showing #6 displaying a twisted kind of compassion by killing the baby quickly, in it's sleep instead of letting it die from the nukes. The little girl on the greenhouse ship was plain 'ol in-your-face TV manipulation and made me roll my eyes. They generally are pretty good about not using/abusing that kind of blatent pathos, though. I was happy to see the ship used; nice nod to Silent Running..
BSG is just about my favorite show right now, although I'll confess that part of that is fanboyish squeeling glee. I am the guy who built (most of) a 6-foot long model of the original Galactica out of Lego, after all. (beyond those pictures it got a skin, but never quite finished before it had to give way to other projects.)
James
This makes BS-jam go "Forgot, this is spoilerific for the BSG pilot only."
