ebonlock | I *heart* Ron Moore (Reply)

Atrios points to Ron Moore's blog today (yay, one of my favorite bloggers is a big old BSG freak too!), about an episode that (much as I loved it), really disturbed me. I'm glad it diturbed him too.

I firmly believe that what Kara Thrace did to Leoben in "Flesh and Bone" was wrong. I believe that a society which employs torture on the defenseless captives in its custody has crossed a bright shining line that civilized people should not cross. Likewise, I think that Laura Roslin promising a man freedom only to kill him in the end is abhorrent to the ways in which I want my president to behave. However, I also understand why each of them did what they did. I understand the emotional, psychological and moral quandries which can lead two moral, good people to take such ghastly actions. And, in the end, I also believe that it was true to who characters really are, and that trumps everything else.

A show that allows for moral ambiguities and lets its characters make the wrong choices because that's who they are and what they would do. *happy sigh*