"Lest ye not do battle with monsters..."
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shadowkat[Note to self - it is 12:24 am in the morning and cold and you have been up since 6:30 am, your throat is dry, it is time for a hot shower and going to bed! Now. Not writing a long rambling entry about a tv show you just saw, which you'll either have to edit later or delete completely, because I rarely make much sense late at night and tend to ramble and make many errors. Speaking of errors, have come back now to hopefully edit this a bit.]
"Lest ye not do battle with monsters, lest ye become a monster yourself and when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you" - Nietzche. (not a Nietzche fan - but I like this quote. Fitting for our times.)
Tonight's episode of BattleStar Galatica entitled "Resurrection Ship" was part 3 of a three part episode arc in the series and a potential turning point. It echoes in some aspects three or four episodes in the original series, which I still remember pretty vividly. I was a huge fan of the original series and more or less memorized certain episodes - I was also 12 at the time, so you have to forgive my taste. It was cheesy, but it was also the early 1980's and back then BattleStar Galatica was a kid's show. Also, we, as a culture, were a tad less cynical. The original series had a group of episodes about Admiral Cain, Adama's superior played at that time by Lloyd Bridges. Fitting since both Lorne Green and Lloyd Bridges were old tv stars - Bonazana and Sea something. Also both starred in Westerns. It was definitely stunt casting of the finest order. In those episodes Cain was a bit crazy, he did things that put the entire fleet at risk and much like Helen Cain, saw the battle as being the focus. The difference between the two characters is Bridge's Cain was far more romantic - he was the legendary hero who'd lost his lustre. The old guy wanting to go out with a big bang, whose daughter worshipped him, and wanted to be him. The focus in the old series was mainly on the father-son/father-daughter relationship - yes that old theme, I struggle with Daddy's approval and hope and pray I'm not the same, but end up becoming the same anyway. The new series is far more interested in the ethics of warfare and how war changes people, what it turns people into and whether we become the monsters we are fighting. A theme that is much closer to the one examined in Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness". The other group of episodes this arc reprised from the original series - were the ones where Apollo dies and is brought back - in those, Apollo sacrifices himself for someone, the death is mystical, and his resurrection very romantic - here - it's grittier and more realistic. In some ways closer to the events of Coppola's war film, at the very least - the Nietzche metaphor taken literally - gazing into an abyss and drowning as a result.
As stated above, Apocalypse Now was Francis Ford Coppola's flawed masterpiece starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, based on Jospeh Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, which I'll confess I've never been able to read all the way through. Dense writer Conrad. Spends lots of time describing things in minute detail. If you like that type of stuff - you probably adore Conrade, but dense description tends to lull me to sleep. So I skimmed it back in 2002 while working on an essay for another tv show.
The gist of Apocalypse Now, is a special ops solider named Marlow, who has become weary with war is ordered by his commander to go into the jungle and get rid of a rogue Colonel, named Kurtz. He's basically sent to kill him. Conrad's novel is slightly different, in that the protagonist is not sent into the jungle to kill the man, so much as goes to seek him. Both protagonists come face to face with the abyss and both realize that the line between the man they are looking at and themselves isn't that wide, they are in effect looking at who they could become. Much as Adama, Roslyn, and Starbuck look at Cain and see who they could become. In Apocalpyse Now - which I remember better - partly because it was visual and partly because I've seen it more than once, and people keep doing parodies of certain sequences from it, Marlon Brando (Kurtz) asks Sheen's character, Marlow, point blank if they are all that different. And would Sheen be able to do what he had to do in order to survive, more to the point, in order to help others survive? Before Sheen faces Brando, he sees the ravages of war.
Each ravage more bizarre than the last, more twisted. He sees what the enemy has done. And what his side has done. To the point in which he can't tell who is worse. One sequence involves Robert Duvell playing an insane solider who literally mows people down with gunfire from his helicoptors while playing classical music (I think it's Wagner...). By the time he reaches Kurtz's jungle commune, he's gone through the heart of darkness, and part of him wonders if maybe Kurtz's way isn't the right one. He know's Kurtz's background, that Kurtz was special ops, like him, that Kurtz was an idealist, that Kurtz experienced heavy casualties, witnessed horrible things and realized the only way to combat his enemy was to make his enemy afraid of him to show his enemyt that he could be as bad if not worse. Destroy the enemy by becoming the enemy. Do what they do without flinching. Yet, Marlow knows...deep inside that this is wrong. Down that path, that route, lies disaster. If he goes there, he cannot come back again, he will drown.
In BSG, Helen Cain is the Brando character from Apocalpyse Now. A solider who was sent alone with a few men into the abyss. She faced horrors beyond imagining and faced them alone. To ensure her own survival and that of her men on-board her ship - the Pegasus, she commits atrocious acts just as Brando in Apocalypse Now committed atrocious acts to ensure his team's survival. After a while, the war she is fighting becomes a personal one, it does not exist outside herself and her ship. Everyone and everything she encounters are tools to fight that war. All that matters is winning that war. Fighting that war. Destroying the enemy by any means necessary. She's stopped intellectualizing, stopped worrying over consequences - it is about the complete extermination of the enemy and in effect, she herself has become like the enemy, she has taken on the enemy's traits. She thinks like they do. Her rhetoric is theirs. "They do not deserve to survive, they are machines, they are unworthy, I am doing the world, the universe, a great justice by exterminating them. All lives lost to kill them are worthy sacrifices." She is justified in her cause. She is righteous. And her words if you listen closely echo the words of Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now, not to mention the cylon's she fights.
The three parter starts with last season's cliff-hanger episode Pegasus, which begins the Galatica's journey into the heart of darkness, except if you think about it - that journey started long before that. I'm not sure you can completely appreciate this three-parter without seeing what lead to it - it would be like only seeing the last half hour of Apocalpyse Now - the part where Sheen finds Brando - the part most people parody. Prior to Pegasus, the Galatica suffered some losses - almost had a mutiney, Adama almost lost his life, they almost turned the fleet into a dictatorship, Starbuck almost got turned into an incubator for baby cyclons and almost died, she thought she lost the man she loved...and Boomer tried to kill Adama, turned out to be a cylon, got pregnant by Helio and was almost brutally raped by an interrogator. Pegaus was the episode where Boomer almost gets raped. The episode where Adama locates the notorious and legendary Cain and her Pegasus. Where the fleet almost goes to war over the possible execution of the two men who save Boomer from Cain's interrogator who is about to rape her. The atrocities pile up. And they are brutal. The last sequence - the two teams are at war. Pegasus against Galatica.
Then we have a six month break. Along comes the opening act of Season 3, Home - or I think that's its name.
Note sure. It was last week's episode at any rate. Starbuck comes back from her secret recognizance flight to explore the cylon Resurrection ship, a ship of life rather than death - only to discover that Galatica and Pegasus, her home ships, are about to kill each other.
Much like Marlow's character in Apocalypse Now, she's bewildered that the two are at odds, when the enemy is elsewhere. She stops it. But it is made clear during the episode how truly deranged Admiral Cain has become during her tour of duty. Human life, life period has become less valuable than her cause. Yet, her justifications, even to Kira, who sees can't help but see a reflection of herself in Cain, ring true. The enemy is horrendous. They do face extermination at this enemy's hands. After all the enemy did attempt to exterminate them on their planet and is trying to exterminate them now, chasing them through space. It is us or them. And if they are willing to go after us by any means necessary, no matter what the sacrifice, shouldn't we take the same approach?
Kira and Cain trade histories, just as Col. Tigh and Cain's second in command trade. The two stories are juxtaposed, we jump back and forth between them - hearing both Cain's second in command's version and Cain's similutaneously.
Through Cain's eyes - the glorious hero's path of hard choices, tough decisions, grit and determination, take no prisoners and no second-guessing. Win or die. Through her second's the horrible consequences - whole families slaughtered to persuade men to join, stripping civilian ships of necessary people and supplies, leaving them defenseless, murdering men and women and children to cut losses, anything to fight the enemy. Becoming the enemy.
An echo perhaps of the current US' administration's view that torture should be allowed to catch terrorists.
Even if it means hurting innocent people along the way. Wiretapping and the invasion of privacy should be allowed - to catch terrorists. Even if it means putting innocents at risk. Any means necessary. Col. Kurtz's words to Marlow - to fight a war, you have to fight dirty. You have to be willing to do what your enemy does, if not worse, you have to get them to fear you.
And we see how the enemy reacts to Cain through the tortured Six - with fear, with hatred. Reflecting Cain's feelings back. Like looking in a mirror. What's equally interesting about the juxtaposition is the genders are reversed. Cain is female. Cain's sole supporter amongst the Galatica crew is female - Starbuck. Cain's second in command, who is questioning her actions, who questions the ethics and looks pained, is male. The women in the episode make the hard decisions - to go to war, to assaignate, to carry it out. Yes, you could argue Adama made the decision whether or not to kill Cain, but his order came from Roslyn, and he chose Starbuck not Apollo to carry it out and it was Apollo not Starbuck who questioned it. Just as in the end, it is Six not Gaius who kills Cain, although Gaius does provide Six with the suggestion and does provide as an alternative to Six's own death.
The flipping of genders here - forces us to look beyond our safe assumptions and generalizations. We can't think oh that's just how "men" are - so aggressive. Not true. Instead, the audience needs to look at the human race as whole - not rely on the classification, which I think people do too often, rely that is, on easy classifications.
The end of Home, the second episode in the three part arc, has, as I stated vaguely above, Pres. Roslin asking Adama to do the same thing that Marlow's commander requested from him - go into the jungle and kill Cain. Except in Adama's case, he's asked to send someone to do it, before Cain kills him and his fleet. So Adama sends Starbuck, while Cain sends her second-in command to kill Adama. Neither party wants the mission, but both are willing to do whatever their commandants request without question.
At the end of Home, we wonder, whose the real villian here? The cylons or the humans?
If we think Resurrection Ship, the finale of the three parter, will answer that question, it doesn't. In Resurrection Ship - they complete part one of their mission, they destroy the ship. But the episode doesn't start as expected nor does it focus on the destruction of the Resurrection Ship. It starts oddly, with Apollo out in space, drowning in head and spirit and body. Oxygen depleted. Staring at the fight from a distance. How he gets there - is through his father, Starbuck asked him to back her up in the assaination of Cain, ordered by his father. He questions his father on it, only to learn that the President, a woman he admired, had ordered it.
While the battle is taking place, Adama meets with Boomer, asks her point blank why the cylons hate the humans.
She says she's not sure hate is the right word. He says forget semantics. Just tell him why. She quotes his own words back to him - "You said in a speech that humans were a flawed race. Killing one another over petty jealousies and greed. Do you deserve to survive? To live? Are you worthy? We don't think so."
Just as the battle ends. The Resurrection ship is destroyed - a ship that the cylons use to download their minds after their bodies are killed - it's a midway station. The main site being too far away for their resurrection. Destroying it makes it harder for the cylons to follow the humans without risking permanent death. A metaphor in of itself. I think.
At any rate - when the battle ends, Kira is forced to face Cain alone without Apollo, who has been brought back to life after almost drowning in space and is recuperating. She waits for Adama's command. Cain calls Adama. Adama asks to speak to Kira. He tells Kira - "I think humanity needs to show it's worthy of surviving..." in effect echoing the words given back to him by Boomer. Cain similarly drops her order to slay Adama. Yet, Cain has already crossed too many lines - much like Kurtz did in Apocalypse Now. She isn't killed by her own kind, but rather by the Cylon Woman she tortured, the one who begged her repeatedly to kill her. Six. Six aided by the Baltar - not only aided but prodded by him - shoots and kills Cain and escapes with Baltar's help. Gaius Baltar calls it "justice" and it echoes oddly Cain's words to Kira. Cain's words, like Adama's come back to haunt her. The abyss gazes back into her - her final scene is literally a locked gaze with her enemy through the barrel of a gun.
But the show doesn't end there. It ends with three additional scenes, all haunting in their own way :
1. Apollo telling Kira that he did not want to come back, he wanted to stay out there, he wanted to drown.
2. Kira stating that whether they liked it or not they were safer under Cain, she didn't second guess, she didn't flinch, she got things done and saved more lives - the hard approach works in times of war. (Yet, as I'm beginning to realize, safety can be overrated. Especially when it comes at a high cost. Yet, I wonder watching her face, is she right? Is she willing to sell her soul as Cain has done?)
3. The feeling that Roselin did not regret her decision to kill Cain, but was in the end relieved it was not necessary and equally relieved someone else did it for them.
Unlike other tv shows, this one does not answer questions, it asks them. How far are you willing to go and what are you willing to sacrifice to do what you believe is right? Are you willing to become a monster? And once you become one, what then? Will you even know? Will it matter?
"Lest ye not do battle with monsters, lest ye become a monster yourself and when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you" - Nietzche. (not a Nietzche fan - but I like this quote. Fitting for our times.)
Tonight's episode of BattleStar Galatica entitled "Resurrection Ship" was part 3 of a three part episode arc in the series and a potential turning point. It echoes in some aspects three or four episodes in the original series, which I still remember pretty vividly. I was a huge fan of the original series and more or less memorized certain episodes - I was also 12 at the time, so you have to forgive my taste. It was cheesy, but it was also the early 1980's and back then BattleStar Galatica was a kid's show. Also, we, as a culture, were a tad less cynical. The original series had a group of episodes about Admiral Cain, Adama's superior played at that time by Lloyd Bridges. Fitting since both Lorne Green and Lloyd Bridges were old tv stars - Bonazana and Sea something. Also both starred in Westerns. It was definitely stunt casting of the finest order. In those episodes Cain was a bit crazy, he did things that put the entire fleet at risk and much like Helen Cain, saw the battle as being the focus. The difference between the two characters is Bridge's Cain was far more romantic - he was the legendary hero who'd lost his lustre. The old guy wanting to go out with a big bang, whose daughter worshipped him, and wanted to be him. The focus in the old series was mainly on the father-son/father-daughter relationship - yes that old theme, I struggle with Daddy's approval and hope and pray I'm not the same, but end up becoming the same anyway. The new series is far more interested in the ethics of warfare and how war changes people, what it turns people into and whether we become the monsters we are fighting. A theme that is much closer to the one examined in Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, based on Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness". The other group of episodes this arc reprised from the original series - were the ones where Apollo dies and is brought back - in those, Apollo sacrifices himself for someone, the death is mystical, and his resurrection very romantic - here - it's grittier and more realistic. In some ways closer to the events of Coppola's war film, at the very least - the Nietzche metaphor taken literally - gazing into an abyss and drowning as a result.
As stated above, Apocalypse Now was Francis Ford Coppola's flawed masterpiece starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando, based on Jospeh Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, which I'll confess I've never been able to read all the way through. Dense writer Conrad. Spends lots of time describing things in minute detail. If you like that type of stuff - you probably adore Conrade, but dense description tends to lull me to sleep. So I skimmed it back in 2002 while working on an essay for another tv show.
The gist of Apocalypse Now, is a special ops solider named Marlow, who has become weary with war is ordered by his commander to go into the jungle and get rid of a rogue Colonel, named Kurtz. He's basically sent to kill him. Conrad's novel is slightly different, in that the protagonist is not sent into the jungle to kill the man, so much as goes to seek him. Both protagonists come face to face with the abyss and both realize that the line between the man they are looking at and themselves isn't that wide, they are in effect looking at who they could become. Much as Adama, Roslyn, and Starbuck look at Cain and see who they could become. In Apocalpyse Now - which I remember better - partly because it was visual and partly because I've seen it more than once, and people keep doing parodies of certain sequences from it, Marlon Brando (Kurtz) asks Sheen's character, Marlow, point blank if they are all that different. And would Sheen be able to do what he had to do in order to survive, more to the point, in order to help others survive? Before Sheen faces Brando, he sees the ravages of war.
Each ravage more bizarre than the last, more twisted. He sees what the enemy has done. And what his side has done. To the point in which he can't tell who is worse. One sequence involves Robert Duvell playing an insane solider who literally mows people down with gunfire from his helicoptors while playing classical music (I think it's Wagner...). By the time he reaches Kurtz's jungle commune, he's gone through the heart of darkness, and part of him wonders if maybe Kurtz's way isn't the right one. He know's Kurtz's background, that Kurtz was special ops, like him, that Kurtz was an idealist, that Kurtz experienced heavy casualties, witnessed horrible things and realized the only way to combat his enemy was to make his enemy afraid of him to show his enemyt that he could be as bad if not worse. Destroy the enemy by becoming the enemy. Do what they do without flinching. Yet, Marlow knows...deep inside that this is wrong. Down that path, that route, lies disaster. If he goes there, he cannot come back again, he will drown.
In BSG, Helen Cain is the Brando character from Apocalpyse Now. A solider who was sent alone with a few men into the abyss. She faced horrors beyond imagining and faced them alone. To ensure her own survival and that of her men on-board her ship - the Pegasus, she commits atrocious acts just as Brando in Apocalypse Now committed atrocious acts to ensure his team's survival. After a while, the war she is fighting becomes a personal one, it does not exist outside herself and her ship. Everyone and everything she encounters are tools to fight that war. All that matters is winning that war. Fighting that war. Destroying the enemy by any means necessary. She's stopped intellectualizing, stopped worrying over consequences - it is about the complete extermination of the enemy and in effect, she herself has become like the enemy, she has taken on the enemy's traits. She thinks like they do. Her rhetoric is theirs. "They do not deserve to survive, they are machines, they are unworthy, I am doing the world, the universe, a great justice by exterminating them. All lives lost to kill them are worthy sacrifices." She is justified in her cause. She is righteous. And her words if you listen closely echo the words of Marlon Brando's character in Apocalypse Now, not to mention the cylon's she fights.
The three parter starts with last season's cliff-hanger episode Pegasus, which begins the Galatica's journey into the heart of darkness, except if you think about it - that journey started long before that. I'm not sure you can completely appreciate this three-parter without seeing what lead to it - it would be like only seeing the last half hour of Apocalpyse Now - the part where Sheen finds Brando - the part most people parody. Prior to Pegasus, the Galatica suffered some losses - almost had a mutiney, Adama almost lost his life, they almost turned the fleet into a dictatorship, Starbuck almost got turned into an incubator for baby cyclons and almost died, she thought she lost the man she loved...and Boomer tried to kill Adama, turned out to be a cylon, got pregnant by Helio and was almost brutally raped by an interrogator. Pegaus was the episode where Boomer almost gets raped. The episode where Adama locates the notorious and legendary Cain and her Pegasus. Where the fleet almost goes to war over the possible execution of the two men who save Boomer from Cain's interrogator who is about to rape her. The atrocities pile up. And they are brutal. The last sequence - the two teams are at war. Pegasus against Galatica.
Then we have a six month break. Along comes the opening act of Season 3, Home - or I think that's its name.
Note sure. It was last week's episode at any rate. Starbuck comes back from her secret recognizance flight to explore the cylon Resurrection ship, a ship of life rather than death - only to discover that Galatica and Pegasus, her home ships, are about to kill each other.
Much like Marlow's character in Apocalypse Now, she's bewildered that the two are at odds, when the enemy is elsewhere. She stops it. But it is made clear during the episode how truly deranged Admiral Cain has become during her tour of duty. Human life, life period has become less valuable than her cause. Yet, her justifications, even to Kira, who sees can't help but see a reflection of herself in Cain, ring true. The enemy is horrendous. They do face extermination at this enemy's hands. After all the enemy did attempt to exterminate them on their planet and is trying to exterminate them now, chasing them through space. It is us or them. And if they are willing to go after us by any means necessary, no matter what the sacrifice, shouldn't we take the same approach?
Kira and Cain trade histories, just as Col. Tigh and Cain's second in command trade. The two stories are juxtaposed, we jump back and forth between them - hearing both Cain's second in command's version and Cain's similutaneously.
Through Cain's eyes - the glorious hero's path of hard choices, tough decisions, grit and determination, take no prisoners and no second-guessing. Win or die. Through her second's the horrible consequences - whole families slaughtered to persuade men to join, stripping civilian ships of necessary people and supplies, leaving them defenseless, murdering men and women and children to cut losses, anything to fight the enemy. Becoming the enemy.
An echo perhaps of the current US' administration's view that torture should be allowed to catch terrorists.
Even if it means hurting innocent people along the way. Wiretapping and the invasion of privacy should be allowed - to catch terrorists. Even if it means putting innocents at risk. Any means necessary. Col. Kurtz's words to Marlow - to fight a war, you have to fight dirty. You have to be willing to do what your enemy does, if not worse, you have to get them to fear you.
And we see how the enemy reacts to Cain through the tortured Six - with fear, with hatred. Reflecting Cain's feelings back. Like looking in a mirror. What's equally interesting about the juxtaposition is the genders are reversed. Cain is female. Cain's sole supporter amongst the Galatica crew is female - Starbuck. Cain's second in command, who is questioning her actions, who questions the ethics and looks pained, is male. The women in the episode make the hard decisions - to go to war, to assaignate, to carry it out. Yes, you could argue Adama made the decision whether or not to kill Cain, but his order came from Roslyn, and he chose Starbuck not Apollo to carry it out and it was Apollo not Starbuck who questioned it. Just as in the end, it is Six not Gaius who kills Cain, although Gaius does provide Six with the suggestion and does provide as an alternative to Six's own death.
The flipping of genders here - forces us to look beyond our safe assumptions and generalizations. We can't think oh that's just how "men" are - so aggressive. Not true. Instead, the audience needs to look at the human race as whole - not rely on the classification, which I think people do too often, rely that is, on easy classifications.
The end of Home, the second episode in the three part arc, has, as I stated vaguely above, Pres. Roslin asking Adama to do the same thing that Marlow's commander requested from him - go into the jungle and kill Cain. Except in Adama's case, he's asked to send someone to do it, before Cain kills him and his fleet. So Adama sends Starbuck, while Cain sends her second-in command to kill Adama. Neither party wants the mission, but both are willing to do whatever their commandants request without question.
At the end of Home, we wonder, whose the real villian here? The cylons or the humans?
If we think Resurrection Ship, the finale of the three parter, will answer that question, it doesn't. In Resurrection Ship - they complete part one of their mission, they destroy the ship. But the episode doesn't start as expected nor does it focus on the destruction of the Resurrection Ship. It starts oddly, with Apollo out in space, drowning in head and spirit and body. Oxygen depleted. Staring at the fight from a distance. How he gets there - is through his father, Starbuck asked him to back her up in the assaination of Cain, ordered by his father. He questions his father on it, only to learn that the President, a woman he admired, had ordered it.
While the battle is taking place, Adama meets with Boomer, asks her point blank why the cylons hate the humans.
She says she's not sure hate is the right word. He says forget semantics. Just tell him why. She quotes his own words back to him - "You said in a speech that humans were a flawed race. Killing one another over petty jealousies and greed. Do you deserve to survive? To live? Are you worthy? We don't think so."
Just as the battle ends. The Resurrection ship is destroyed - a ship that the cylons use to download their minds after their bodies are killed - it's a midway station. The main site being too far away for their resurrection. Destroying it makes it harder for the cylons to follow the humans without risking permanent death. A metaphor in of itself. I think.
At any rate - when the battle ends, Kira is forced to face Cain alone without Apollo, who has been brought back to life after almost drowning in space and is recuperating. She waits for Adama's command. Cain calls Adama. Adama asks to speak to Kira. He tells Kira - "I think humanity needs to show it's worthy of surviving..." in effect echoing the words given back to him by Boomer. Cain similarly drops her order to slay Adama. Yet, Cain has already crossed too many lines - much like Kurtz did in Apocalypse Now. She isn't killed by her own kind, but rather by the Cylon Woman she tortured, the one who begged her repeatedly to kill her. Six. Six aided by the Baltar - not only aided but prodded by him - shoots and kills Cain and escapes with Baltar's help. Gaius Baltar calls it "justice" and it echoes oddly Cain's words to Kira. Cain's words, like Adama's come back to haunt her. The abyss gazes back into her - her final scene is literally a locked gaze with her enemy through the barrel of a gun.
But the show doesn't end there. It ends with three additional scenes, all haunting in their own way :
1. Apollo telling Kira that he did not want to come back, he wanted to stay out there, he wanted to drown.
2. Kira stating that whether they liked it or not they were safer under Cain, she didn't second guess, she didn't flinch, she got things done and saved more lives - the hard approach works in times of war. (Yet, as I'm beginning to realize, safety can be overrated. Especially when it comes at a high cost. Yet, I wonder watching her face, is she right? Is she willing to sell her soul as Cain has done?)
3. The feeling that Roselin did not regret her decision to kill Cain, but was in the end relieved it was not necessary and equally relieved someone else did it for them.
Unlike other tv shows, this one does not answer questions, it asks them. How far are you willing to go and what are you willing to sacrifice to do what you believe is right? Are you willing to become a monster? And once you become one, what then? Will you even know? Will it matter?
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Date: 2006-01-14 10:11 pm (UTC)I really need to see the episode a second time, I had too much going on to give it the attention it deserved (but I saved the tape).