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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Obviously I'm up-to-date by the miracle of eighth-of-a-byte-flooding, and will have to remain so even if Sky One gets ahead of North America, because I have Freeview and not Sky. I'll still gloat though. Pegasus is obviously smaller and more compact than Galactica. And now I'm even more reminded of that early Voyager concept with the underslung nacelles, that really looked like the original Galactica. OK, now, I don't want to come all over Malcolm Reed (if some parts of the fanfic community are to be believed, that's Trip's job), but in my capapcity as weapons expert I noticed Cain's collection of antique pistols, flintlocks or wheel-locks it looked like. This presents problems when we imagine how Colonial culture might have developed while taking into account the number of real-Earth weapons and vehicles we see. . . Either the original Colonists arrived from Kobol, then reverted to savagery, then had to develop from scratch until they were able to re-discover lost technologies like space travel, FTL drive and Uzis. Or, everything we see is just something we're meant to suspend disbelief over, like in Star Trek where we hear sound in space, see aliens' lips synching with Universal Translator output, and believe that's really Captain Kirk's hair. That it isn't really a Humvee Starbuck's driving, that sort of thing. Of course, that opera house on Kobol looked to be of Renaissance-era architecture, so the Colonists could have been of that level of tech and were merely transported to the Colonies by the Gods, whoever they turn out to be. [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]So you're wondering if maybe they're trivialising one of the most heinous crimes that occurs in our modern world by merely using it to underline how nasty the Pegagsus crew are, or have become? Maybe, although it didn't seem trivialised to me. In fact I thought they did it quite well by not actually revealing Six/Gina had been raped (although I wondered as soon as I saw her condition) but letting us draw our own conclusions once we saw how Sharon was going to be treated. What's the alternative? "Tonight, on a very special [i]Battlestar Galactica[/i]. . ?" After reading the Battlestar Wiki page on this ep, and the deleted scenes detailed therein, it seems safe to say that Cain has gender issues. Just about everyone we saw on the Pegasus was male, she blanked the President who's a woman. . . And while the Galactica women showed revulsion at the idea of even a female Cylon being raped, she obviously doesn't have a problem with it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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