To me it brought up the scenes from the prison in Iraq, and the way the "enemy" was dehumanized and humiliated.
Same here, and that's one of the reasons why it connected to me with the earlier examples on the show I gave, all of which also reminded me of those scenes. The attidude of the prison guards in RL didn't come from nowhwere, and neither did those of the Pegasus crew. We saw seeds for it in the earlier episodes on Galactica as well. Which is not to say that the Galactica people will end up doing exactly the same thing - they have choices, they can learn, and as you say, Adama and Roslin work as checks and balances for each other. But the possibility is absolutely there.
I found it a fascinating, chilling warning: if we regard the enemy as Other, how soon will we fall into the darkness, and become what we are fighting against? That is what I find so compelling about this episode, and this show.
Same here. It's so easy to do that in wartime, and especially in a war where the enemy seems to be winning most of the time. (Always easier to be considerate if you're the winning party.) Managing to retain your humanity, in lack of a better term, under those circumstances - that's incredibly important, no matter how difficult.
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Date: 2005-09-27 08:21 am (UTC)Same here, and that's one of the reasons why it connected to me with the earlier examples on the show I gave, all of which also reminded me of those scenes. The attidude of the prison guards in RL didn't come from nowhwere, and neither did those of the Pegasus crew. We saw seeds for it in the earlier episodes on Galactica as well. Which is not to say that the Galactica people will end up doing exactly the same thing - they have choices, they can learn, and as you say, Adama and Roslin work as checks and balances for each other. But the possibility is absolutely there.
I found it a fascinating, chilling warning: if we regard the enemy as Other, how soon will we fall into the darkness, and become what we are fighting against? That is what I find so compelling about this episode, and this show.
Same here. It's so easy to do that in wartime, and especially in a war where the enemy seems to be winning most of the time. (Always easier to be considerate if you're the winning party.) Managing to retain your humanity, in lack of a better term, under those circumstances - that's incredibly important, no matter how difficult.