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BSG 2x09 - "Flight of the Phoenix"
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [qb] These are people that have mastered artificial gravity and FTL travel. I'm sure they can counteract G-forces too. [/qb][/QUOTE]But rather the point of the show is to have a science fiction setting with people using technology in such a setting [i]without[/i] using that explanation every week. Oh, sure, the hastily assembled, bubble-gum and bailing wire, hobby-project-on-the-side starfighter has inertial dampers! None of us can definitively say anything like that, but the point of the show is not to have to say things like that. Did anybody else notice the Master At Arms in the corridor? I liked the episode as a follow up to "Final Cut." You have a point in the fact that on the surface, it doesn't make much sense, given everyone's respective feelings. But, I look at it this way. At the beginning, I was dissapointed by the ending of "Final Cut," as it was far too "rah rah hoorah let's go team" for my tastes, use of the original theme aside. But upon revelation that Lucy Lawless was a Cylon, it puts a beautiful twist on everything. Whether RDM was doing this intentionally or not, I have no idea, but I think the ending of "Final Cut" was a way of saying how intoxicating rah rah patriotism can be, but ultimately how empty. The ending of "Phoenix" on the other hand, was a demonstration of what real hope is like and where it comes from. It's about people; people coming together, working together, accepting each other, and making something together, whether it's a future, a home, or a kit-plane. There's nothing elaborate about it, nothing over the top and pompous. Instead, just quiet and understated. People doing their jobs and occasionally taking a rare moment to acknowledge it. The ending of "Phoenix" was far more deeply powerful than "Final Cut" and the two are wonderfully paired. But that's me. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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