Escape Artists
Escape Pod => Science Fiction Discussion => Topic started by: Heradel on March 18, 2009, 07:40:01 PM
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Last night the UN hosted some of BSG's cast and creators for a discussion with it's staff on Human Rights in the show and in the world (this one, not Caprica or BSG-Earth). IO9 has a writeup here (http://io9.com/5173862/the-night-battlestar-galactica-took-over-the-un) and the UN has video here (http://www.un.org/webcast/2009.html), that I haven't gotten to work yet.
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That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard. What's next - gathering the cast of Wacky Races to discuss urban traffic congestion or air traffic patterns? Idiots!
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That's the dumbest goddamn thing I've ever heard. What's next - gathering the cast of Wacky Races to discuss urban traffic congestion or air traffic patterns? Idiots!
Well said, sir.
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To be fair, the UN doesn't organize these things in order to learn more about the nature of the world's problems - these are publicity stunts, designed to draw attention to serious work that the UN does. To the degree that attention is drawn, I'm all for it.
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To be fair, the UN doesn't organize these things in order to learn more about the nature of the world's problems - these are publicity stunts, designed to draw attention to serious work that the UN does. To the degree that attention is drawn, I'm all for it.
Agreed. And BSG's darkness certainly parallels the dark world around us. The thing was for publicity and outreach, and I hardly see trying to get people to think about Human Rights abuses that would otherwise be fixated on Starbuck's lineage to be a bad thing.