It would have been less an outsider's POV than a different POV from inside, and that would have been much more interesting.
Yeah. It's difficult to have any kind of impact this way, when the whole format is a one-off thing. Not that I think we've heard the last about the Gideon massacre, or anything like that, but... yeah. (Although, does this mean that any civilian anger over that from now on is going to come across as a result of the Cylon journalist stirring up trouble?)
I don't want to be told how to interpret a text. It makes me sulky and resentful and turns me to such perversions as Delenn/Lennier shipping and Warrior Caste apologetics.
And thank Valen for that, or you could have ended up writing Sheridan/Delenn fics set post-S5 where the Shadows, Vorlons, Warrior Caste and ISN all line up before them to apologise for doubting their true love and unquestionable wisdom.
(It's weird, though - the first-year English students I teach have a habit of stopping mid-interesting-point to say "Am I reading too much into this? The author wouldn't have meant that, would he?", and I hadn't realised until I taught them how much it irritated me to imagine an author standing at my shoulder the whole time I was reading something.)
Would the BSG equivalent be Cylon apologetics, or the POV of some of the civilians?
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Date: 2005-09-21 11:22 pm (UTC)Yeah. It's difficult to have any kind of impact this way, when the whole format is a one-off thing. Not that I think we've heard the last about the Gideon massacre, or anything like that, but... yeah. (Although, does this mean that any civilian anger over that from now on is going to come across as a result of the Cylon journalist stirring up trouble?)
I don't want to be told how to interpret a text. It makes me sulky and resentful and turns me to such perversions as Delenn/Lennier shipping and Warrior Caste apologetics.
And thank Valen for that, or you could have ended up writing Sheridan/Delenn fics set post-S5 where the Shadows, Vorlons, Warrior Caste and ISN all line up before them to apologise for doubting their true love and unquestionable wisdom.
(It's weird, though - the first-year English students I teach have a habit of stopping mid-interesting-point to say "Am I reading too much into this? The author wouldn't have meant that, would he?", and I hadn't realised until I taught them how much it irritated me to imagine an author standing at my shoulder the whole time I was reading something.)
Would the BSG equivalent be Cylon apologetics, or the POV of some of the civilians?