I'm a big fan of the remade Battlestar Galactica, especially of the creators' willingness to take us places we're not expecting. They have been willing to make some really tough calls for the sake of good story telling. But after this past week's episode, it seems that they might be losing their nerve. Why do I say this?
It has been known since the mini-series that the President's illness is terminal. She could not survive. It has been a staple of the story that Rosalyn would die, it's even part of the prophecy. But the writers have now saved her from certain death and cheated one of the toughest story arcs of the show. Now I will give that the way they brought this about opens up a lot of potential for human drama and real moral crisis. However, they still backed out of a tough call. Maybe this was actually their plan the entire time, but listening to commentaries implies that they truly intended to kill off the character. And who knows, perhaps they're still going to kill her, just in a different way. But for the time being, I can't help but think that the writers took the cheap and easy way out. This is made even more dissapointing by the fact that Moore and crew have so rarely resorted to such tactics previously.
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