One thing about The Drumhead vs. Litmus (and I might be wrong about this, as I haven't seen the latter since it first aired): I thought we were supposed to take away from Litmus that Adama was wrong, and that's why it was an angsty, Moore-style BSG remix; I thought we were supposed to be unhappy with Adama for just ending the tribunal because he felt like it; that unlike The Drumhead, Litmus' Satie was actually right. Again, I haven't seen it in a while.
Would you class Data as part of the "child of two worlds" trope? I enjoyed reading your thoughts on that, btw. That's a tricky trope -- I mean, it's basically the "tragic mulatto" thing that has been justly decried. At the same time, there is something powerful about it.
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Date: 2009-06-02 10:46 am (UTC)One thing about The Drumhead vs. Litmus (and I might be wrong about this, as I haven't seen the latter since it first aired): I thought we were supposed to take away from Litmus that Adama was wrong, and that's why it was an angsty, Moore-style BSG remix; I thought we were supposed to be unhappy with Adama for just ending the tribunal because he felt like it; that unlike The Drumhead, Litmus' Satie was actually right. Again, I haven't seen it in a while.
Would you class Data as part of the "child of two worlds" trope? I enjoyed reading your thoughts on that, btw. That's a tricky trope -- I mean, it's basically the "tragic mulatto" thing that has been justly decried. At the same time, there is something powerful about it.