thoughts on Bastille Day

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Because when serialkarma pokes, I listen...



After re-watching Bastille Day, which I haven't seen since November as I was one of the impatient ones that downloaded the Brit feeds, certain things really struck me harder than before:

- I love how they've introducing us to the characters and the problems of the Ragtag Fugitive Fleet in media res, just as they should. Thank you for not pandering to the audience, PTB. We're thrown into this situation, much as the Colonials are thrown into their refugee status, and we're expected to pick up and follow along. I can't tell you how much I freaking love that simple, logical idea.

- I'm an avowed history and poli sci geek, so watching Zarek go off on his tirades again had me thinking of Lenin and Robespierre and all those other French guys that I really should remember from my uni lectures. I just wanted Lee to smack him upside the head and tell him, "Hey, dumbass, we're talking basic survival here." Granted, that's exactly when civil liberties can be, and often are, suspended and/or taken advantage of, but gah...Lee witnessed the attack that brought his civilisation to this precarious point and all Zarek can (understandably, if not rightly) see, is an opportunity to play the ego maniac that we all know Richard Hatch to be. (Sorry, a bit more personal commentary there than I had intended.)

Anyhoo, no one is throwing any punches with regard to these hard questions and no matter what happens to this series, that's one thing I hope it will be remembered for.

Other, older and less serious, comments can be found here.