It won’t leave me alone….
…so I have to get this out of my head. Ever since I heard it I can NOT get it to frakking leave (I know that looks wrong but I checked) so I gotta post this and get it out of my brain.
In the season premiere for Battlestar Galactica (and it’s been like a month so this is not a spoiler) there’s a ship that gets blown up in the big battle at the start of the episode. Right out of the gate, wham! Roslin is on the bridge and when the sitrep comes in for the Pyxis the President (Roslin) looks physically affected, she holds on to something almost for support, and she says (something like), “My Gods, there were 600 souls on that ship…”
It continues to echo in my head, every time I hear about Iraq and how the number of casualties continues to increase. Because nobody says souls or people or young people or kids or any of that. I used to hear Americans a lot too, but even that not so much anymore. It’s usually “casualties” or “soldiers”. That’s crap. Here are some better words to use when reporting this:
souls
spouses
children
parents
friends
brave _____
volunteers
I’ve been known to toss up a political post or two in my time (ahem), but I’ve given up on most of it quite honestly because I got frustrated and I got worn down. I can blog about injustice till the cows come home, but let’s be honest here, I have a LIVEJOURNAL for gord’s sake and really I’m just not going to get the kind of attention others get who do this all the time and are all professional about it. But I can’t tell you how hard it has been the last couple of weeks to keep hearing Mary McDonnell in my head. I knew nobody else was hearing it but me, and we all know how THAT story ends…
2 Responses to “It won’t leave me alone….”
sarkenobi says:
May 15, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I do like it when they say “souls” on BSG. I do like your list of what real life should refer to the people killed as. War is lame.
liplash says:
May 16, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Political blogging is futile… unless you’re Ariana Huffington. Still, better to have blogged and lost than to never have blogged at all. Keep posting and I’ll keep reading.