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Date: 2009-02-16 07:05 am (UTC)
How dare she try and claim the people have 'a right to know' about the Ikaran weapon's attacks? Next she'll be claiming the people have a right to know about who funded the excavation of the weapon, or what happened to it after the episode!

Shocking, isn't it! Yes, exactly that. It also reminds me of the attitude towards historians in the s4 finale - how dare they critisize Sheridan for being a lousy President and making the wrong decision regarding telepaths on the station! Except then the show proceeds to show Sheridan as a lousy President and, etc. Or the s2 interview with Delenn - how dare the nasty reporter make Delenn cry! Except, of course, this is the same Delenn who goes head to head with Neroon, Shadows, Drakhs etc without crying, and intimidates the hell out of everyone when she wants to, so this is just cheap emotional manipulativeness on the writing's part.

The funny thing is, it's not like JMS is incapable or writing an episode that shows Our Heroes from the perspective of someone critical to them. The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father is an example of this. We get a scene we've seen before - Bester arrives at the station in pursuit of a telepath gone rogue, tells Zack as the representative of station security that the guy has killed a Psi Cop, and Zack replies "and that is bad because...?" It's the kind of reply Garibaldi, Sheridan or Ivanova have made before, only then we were in their pov, mocking the evil Psi Corps. In this case, we've seen the murdered man's widow crying over his dead body in the preceding scene, so Zack's remark looks callous and bigoted instead of cutting-Bester-down-to-size. Just imagine if we'd gotten episodes from a reporter pov which weren't about how great Our Heroes are or how unfair the media is...
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