"The War Prayer" discussion [spoilers]

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for the episode 1X07, "The War Prayer". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Extra reading:

The article for "The War Prayer" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

Re: Part 2

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Agreed on both Home Guard and Mayan; it would have added much emotional depth and more of a dilemma to our heroes if things had been more shade of grey. As mentioned in my own comment, I think the Malcolm character instead of an unconvincing ex should have been an old comrade from the war whose trauma had driven him to xenophobia and then to violence; someone tragic, rather than an obvious slime bag the audience could only despise. And I like your idea about Mayan.