quote:You have to wonder if the writers chose Simon knowing it'd get a dumb cry out outrage and hoping that enough people had their heads screwed on tightly enough to see it for what it was.
Nope! I listened to Ron Moore's podcast (recorded before the episode publicly aired), and the reason that they put Simon in that scene was because their original idea of having the Six in there didn't work out, because it wasn't in character for Six to be the one to be willing to talk. There had been an angle with Leoben and Kara (that didn't work out and was cut), and they didn't want to use him too much. So they picked Simon, because he hadn't had anything to do lately. They could easily have done the Sharon model that was captured, but that would be a bit confusing. Dean Stockwell wasn't even in the episode, either.
I'm 100% sure that the writers didn't give the race thing a single thought, and for very good reason.
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I thought it kinda fit what we knew of him so far. As a doctor, it would be in character for him to look for a cure.
MM, where'd you get that quote in your sig? I'm sure it's from the podcasts, but specifically which episode and about what?
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