Roslin's not clueless.
So very far from it.
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amych - Jan 26, 2006 2:33:55 pm PST #6799 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DCJensen - Jan 26, 2006 2:54:03 pm PST #6800 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe they were thinking of her predecessor?
ETA: Like you, I don't find Roslyn clueless. If anything she was hesitant to take on the mantle of president, but once she did, she ran with it. She's not clueless, she was hesitant to confess she thought she was the prophesized president, and wary of the military.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 2:56:51 pm PST #6801 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They were thinking of Baltar? I dunno....
Jessica - Jan 26, 2006 3:07:33 pm PST #6802 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nope -- they're trying to compare her to Bush:
Similarly, President Laura Roslin (played by Mary McDonnell) is not simply a stand-in for Bush, but she was an unprepared chief executive -- forty-third in the line of succession -- who has lately turned to holy scriptures to guide her through a time of war. (Note, too, the number forty-three.) On one show she says, "The interesting thing about being president is you don't have to explain yourself to anybody," a direct lift of a Bush quote in Bob Woodward's Bush at War.
sumi - Jan 26, 2006 3:08:25 pm PST #6803 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
The flying? The ring? ETC - - that was a dream, right?
sumi - Jan 26, 2006 3:16:11 pm PST #6804 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, not a dream. . . so, does this mean that Lana dies?
Also, so funny that the whole Supes turning coal into a diamond-thing just came up on the Colbert Report. . . although that isn't exactly what Clark did.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 3:20:55 pm PST #6805 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Nope -- they're trying to compare her to Bush:
I'd say that those similarities are rather tenuous. Also, Moore has stated that he doesn't mean the show to be a direct parallel to events in the US (if his intent is relevent here). He gave the example of the anti-war people being the villians in last week's episode.
sumi - Jan 26, 2006 3:27:48 pm PST #6806 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Damn, that was good. They're not going to take it back, are they?
sumi - Jan 26, 2006 4:06:03 pm PST #6807 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Of course, they took it back and I guess that the Smallville folks haven't heard of the new Superman canon either. . .or maybe the old canon is the new canon.
Strega - Jan 26, 2006 5:20:11 pm PST #6808 of 10001
I have a different nit to pick in that article (though it is a good piece):
The original Battlestar Galactica aired on ABC for one season and was such a blatant rip-off of Star Wars, the network got sued.
Er. It was so blatant that when they finally got to trial, the judge said, "Not so much," and dismissed the case.
I really liked this, though:
"I can be as highfalutin as anybody about the socio-political relevance of contemporary science fiction," says Eick. "But sometimes I just want to see shit blow up."Hee.