In a message dated 3/2/01 3:33:01 AM Eastern Standard Time, una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk writes:
<< Leaving aside the fact that I don't believe you can dissociate the production environment from the effect of the finished product, how about the premise? Ika pointed this out to me over the weekend, so thanks to her, but I can't think of another country whose public service broadcasting corporation would produce a programme about resistance against an arguably illegitimate goverment when the government of that self-same country is in the middle of a heightened version of such a struggle (late 70s were a bad time in Northern Ireland).<<
Two words: X-Files. Week by week, American shows are *constantly* airing programs that have scripts involving evil government agencies and plots against the public in general and the well-being of the individual and their rights. Conspiracy shows are all the rage, and government conspiracy plots that accuse Washington of everything up to and including mass murder are frequent plot themes, even in non-conspiracy shows. So are plots showing US abuse against the indigenous minority and other ethnic groups within its borders.
In the
society we see in B7, there doesn't seem to be any remembrance of World War II or of "our" world at all.<<
Apart from the portrayal of a facist regime? Terry Nation puts this into
pretty much all his scripts for 'Dr Who' too.<
I'm sorry, but the Germans did not invent totalitarianism and fascism, nor did the Brits. The existence of a totalitarian government does not automatically imply a knowledge or awareness of WWII.
Leah