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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [qb]I guess the problem is that rape, as a symbol, is so. . . serious, so [i]loud[/i], maybe, in this sort of semiotic sense, that unless it's treated properly (and I don't pretend to know what I mean by that; I'm certainly not claiming that Battlestar Galactica didn't), it can unbalance things. If that makes any sense. Put a rape in a story that's not, I don't know, mature enough to really handle it and you get an offensive mess.[/qb][/QUOTE]Yeah. It's not like we didn't already think these Pegasus lads maybe were a bunch of jerks. I suppose it makes it dramatically OK that our heroes may be shooting at them by the next episode, but those scenes were especially disturbing. It's pretty bad when you feel more compassion for the agents of a race who comitted genocide (on a massive scale) than the revengeant survivors of that genocide. I do get the impression that there is more to Cain's story than meets the eye. I hope that she and her crew do get a chance to redeem themselves in the coming episode(s?). I found I was thinking about Cain's actions from a corporate raider mentality as far as undermining Adama's support before... well, persumably before either a coup or a liquidation. Something bad anyway. I think maybe the turnabout would have been more effective had we spent a little more time with the crews re-uniting and making us think this was a positive thing. That despite all we know about human beings, that cooperation would be carrying us towards a suburb of hope. My memory is hazy, but I seem to recall the original series episode had more of that. Maybe that's what those extra 15 minutes did. (And I can tell you that it was the scenes with catatonic captive Six that made the writers think their script would squeeze into that hour.) As it was something was off from the start, and I'm not just talking about the music. You just knew that despite the apparent trippling of their military capacity, somehow this wasn't going to end good. How did the original series episode introduce us to the Pegasus? I just felt like maybe they telegraphed the turn a little too much. But then maybe I'm just pissy that I have to wait until January. (It'll be interesting to see the Survivor count then.) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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