Dear Mr. Olmos,
1. Are there any themes (political or dramatic) or character dynamics or relationships involving your character or any other characters that you wish the series had had the time to explore or – in the case that they were explored at all – further pursue?
2. Looking at Season 4 and parts of Season 3, I get the sense that Ronald D. Moore was less involved in rewriting others’ scripts? Was this the case? Also, did David Eick stop being involved in editing the show after Season 2?
3. Would you be willing to take a look at a script for a BSG miniseries once I've finished? If so, could I email or physically mail it to you? I could provide a summary so you have a sense of what it's about so you don't feel like you're wasting your time.
4. Don’t you think that the political issues should be hit upon more emphatically by the writers or other artists involved to induce political action on the part of the viewer? For example, since the theme of torture was portrayed with regard to how the humans treat the cylons in “Flesh and Bone”and “Pegasus”, shouldn’t viewers be made aware that this stuff is going on in Guantanamo Bay or is being carried out regularly by US allies like Israel or Saudi Arabia? Another example is how the show at least posited, especially in “Occupation”/”Precipice,” that terrorists just as morally ambiguous as those practicing state-oriented forms of coercion through unjust laws and war. Indeed, terrorists' actions are often rooted in desperation and anger that grows out of occupation and persecution. The real world parallels perhaps should be drawn not only to historic colonialism, Vichy France, and the US war in Vietnam, but to the Israeli occupation of Lebanon and Palestine just as it could to the treatment of Kurds by Turkey and Iran or of the Chechens by Russia.
5. Do you think the show ended strangely in warning about the cycle of creating artificial intelligence? It seems to me that the show’s central theme is about the cycle of violence among all “humans” (including cylons) and about the dehumanization and homogenization of “the other” (while assuming that "our side" is inherently morally superior and principled) that has happened over and over in Earth’s history. Isn’t that the real message: that we the viewers should help to end humanity's cycles of violence by standing ready to criticize "our side" and to understand "the other" – not simply to watch out for AI?
Message Edited by Muldfeld on 10-19-2009 03:34 AM
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