The "they have a plan" at the opening of each episode does rather imply that the writers ought to have a plan as well, but I'm not sure they realize that.
But trying to build a social commentary about current events while building a mythos to sustain your own universe can certainly be tricky.
Yes, although as you say B5 managed to pull it off -- of course my sense was that the writers there took the fictional universe as seriously as (or more seriously than) they took the political story, so the whole thing never became unbalanced. And they were referring to a single modern dilemma, whereas BSG is all over the place, sometimes.
Rewatching the "genocide" episode, it struck me that all the commentary I read was about the humans, none at all about Three and Six torturing Baltar. Why do you think that was?
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Date: 2006-12-17 10:44 am (UTC)But trying to build a social commentary about current events while building a mythos to sustain your own universe can certainly be tricky.
Yes, although as you say B5 managed to pull it off -- of course my sense was that the writers there took the fictional universe as seriously as (or more seriously than) they took the political story, so the whole thing never became unbalanced. And they were referring to a single modern dilemma, whereas BSG is all over the place, sometimes.
Rewatching the "genocide" episode, it struck me that all the commentary I read was about the humans, none at all about Three and Six torturing Baltar. Why do you think that was?