Deported to Danger

[dreamer_easy]

An overview of the recent report of what becomes of asylum seekers deported from Australia, from Green Left Weekly: Deported to Danger.

We've just finished watching the (astonishingly good) new Battlestar Galactica. I laughed when the 50,000 survivors decided to head for Earth. I don't think we have a big enough detention centre.

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[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Here's what I had to say last year when it aired here, if you're interested:



[Re: Battlestar Galactica as a model for how a series might reinvent
itself successfully]

> Hmmm. Interesting. The big question is how many of those people will
> still tune in when the series starts.

Well, I will. The miniseries took the great, mythic idea with a sci-fi
spin, added some new twists to the old Cylons, did a much better job
of explaining the backstory and giving the villains a motivation, and
didn't *immediately* jump into the trap of "we're a ragtag wagon train
of exiles looking for a lost colony after unbelievable horror drove us
from our homes....but THIS week we go to the casino planet" that the
original series did. It's the core concept, redone as serious sci-fi.
It has the tone the original strove for but never managed....and
having seen the original series not too long ago, I think it stands a
better chance of living up to the promise of its pilot in a way the
original never really did.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Jon and I had our mouths hanging open at the 9/11 stuff. And apparently the networks approve of that and want more and they're going to do Abu Ghraib. So that's where Star Trek got to!

Battlestar is good.

[digby-tantrum.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to write a commentary on Galactica, denouncing it as disrespecting the past© by its blatant refusal to be a load of wank. Because, blimey, it's not arf bad.


©Dr Jack Beven, 2002.

Re: Battlestar is good.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I do hope they get Patrick Macnee to play the Devil.