Brilliant questions, and ones I, too, would love to see addressed in fic, but even more than that we need to see in canon.
The shift for the civilians must, I think, be even more significant than for the crew of the Galactica - they are, to some extent, doing what they always do, while the entire world order has changed for the civilians - with the possible exceptions of the ships' crews.
I'm holding up the 'crew' of Lost in my mind, up against what we've seen of BSG, and Lost isn't coming out looking so good. I hope - I expect - that what we're eventually going to be shown of the civilian social structure will be more cohesive and competent than either Jack's refugees or Tigh's fears low expectations.
I don't agree that the show's producers/plotters view the civilian component of the fleet as plot-disposable, it's just that things are rather busy this sec, and with the threat of the Cylons hanging right there to trump any minor things like heart attacks, broken laundry machines, rude cabin staff and people sleeping in hallways, I can see where they haven't had the chance to address those issues yet.
I think we're getting hints, though. Roslin asked Adama if he had a physican on board - I wonder how much of that was resonable precautions and how much was driven by her not knowing if there were any other doctors in the Fleet. Following the attacks, physicans/police officers/public officals might have not left their posts, and might be less well represented among the Fleet than normal population distributions would indicate. (Wildly speculating, here.)
As for who we could follow through the fleet - the military doc could be a interesting fellow to follow for a day.
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Date: 2005-02-09 04:59 pm (UTC)The shift for the civilians must, I think, be even more significant than for the crew of the Galactica - they are, to some extent, doing what they always do, while the entire world order has changed for the civilians - with the possible exceptions of the ships' crews.
I'm holding up the 'crew' of Lost in my mind, up against what we've seen of BSG, and Lost isn't coming out looking so good. I hope - I expect - that what we're eventually going to be shown of the civilian social structure will be more cohesive and competent than either Jack's refugees or Tigh's
fearslow expectations.I don't agree that the show's producers/plotters view the civilian component of the fleet as plot-disposable, it's just that things are rather busy this sec, and with the threat of the Cylons hanging right there to trump any minor things like heart attacks, broken laundry machines, rude cabin staff and people sleeping in hallways, I can see where they haven't had the chance to address those issues yet.
I think we're getting hints, though. Roslin asked Adama if he had a physican on board - I wonder how much of that was resonable precautions and how much was driven by her not knowing if there were any other doctors in the Fleet. Following the attacks, physicans/police officers/public officals might have not left their posts, and might be less well represented among the Fleet than normal population distributions would indicate. (Wildly speculating, here.)
As for who we could follow through the fleet - the military doc could be a interesting fellow to follow for a day.
- hg