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BSGwatch: Hacks In Space!
SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal
Not nearly as much to comment on in this week's Galactica, though, after all, you can't expect them to kill off (or pseudo-kill off) a major character every week. While I was glad they got back to the fascinating character of Baltar, I was less interested in the legal machinations, especially the business with Space Ramsey Clark, or whoever it was they got to handle Baltar's case. It always throws me a little when BSG has plots that center around media sensations, trials of the century and other such stuff--not because they're unrealistic, per se, but because it doesn't seem like a decimated civilization struggling for survival would have the psychic energy or simple infrastructure for media circuses like that.
Case in point: whenever President Roslyn has an issue to address, she's always speaking to a healthy-sized White-House-gaggle of reporters. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the human population of the fleet down to around the size of a county seat in the Midwest? In America, that size community would be lucky to have a weekly paper that wasn't full of wire copy. But BSG seems to contain its own media universe. Proportionally, journalism must be the biggest civilian employer inside the fleet.
Don't get me wrong, though: It's always nice to think that, in the event of a potentially species-eradicating catastrophe, I'd still have a job. How many TV critics you think there are in the Galactica-verse?
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A lot of those press people are the ones that were with Roslin waaaay back in the miniseries, to cover the Galactica's decomissioning. And if you figure that space travel for Capricans was the equivelant of air travel for us - that is, lots of the "professional" classes on board - then the odds that there'd be at least a moderate number of journalists aboard makes sense.
As for TV critics, I figure there were at least a few that survived the initial attack, but they were probably taking space cruise vacations on ships without FTL drives, so they never made it to the first season. Sorry, dude.
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The press are somewhat like cockroaches.....it is impossible to rid yourself of the pests regardless of your best efforts at eradication. Maybe it is the Ceylon's last laugh at humanity.
There has to be a ship full of lawyers out there too.
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We've stopped watching BSG cuz of the same reason we have turned off MSM - manufactured drama between the the govt and the people - to distract from the real story of the day.
Bring back the aliens and the fight for human survival and we'll start watching either.
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