*giggles*

[conuly]

Watching B5, viewing the Psicorps headquarters.

I can see that they'd have plain signs reading "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" (and Maternis, Paternis was nice too). I can see they'd have the same signs reading "Protect the Family".

But "Obey"?

Granted, this is the show that unironically brought us politicians mindlessly echoing Neville Chamberlain, and Orwell of all things. (And that's still a far cut above all those endless shows with obvious Hitlers prattling on about "final solutions". Honestly, we get the Holocaust analogy, we're not stupid!)

I'm still giggling over the sign, though. And I can. Because it's a free country, nyah.

Edit: Trust the Corps, ah. I'm beginning to understand why Bester is so messed up. There's no art on these walls. You know what I blame that on the breakdown of? Society! (I love the Simpsons too.)

Edit: My, what an exposition of an episode. Weak!

Comments

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

Actually, in The Face of the Enemy, William Edgars does use the phrase "final solution", when he's talking about using that virus as "the final solution to the telepath problem".

B5 is rife with WWII references.

[maelorin]

for some very good reasons.

[and ivanova is god.]

[maelorin]

yes, obey. the corp is your mother and your father. you should obey your parents [old school rules about ettiquette and so forth. children should be seena nd not heard. etc.]

your fellow psicorps people must therefore be your brothers and sisters.

protect the family - the corp and it's people.

and obey. obey the corp above all else.

pretty standard military-totalitarian-orwellian stuff.

[ex-chaos-by-699.livejournal.com]

Actually, in The Face of the Enemy, William Edgars does use the phrase "final solution", when he's talking about using that virus as "the final solution to the telepath problem".

B5 is rife with WWII references.

[maelorin]

for some very good reasons.

[and ivanova is god.]

[maelorin]

yes, obey. the corp is your mother and your father. you should obey your parents [old school rules about ettiquette and so forth. children should be seena nd not heard. etc.]

your fellow psicorps people must therefore be your brothers and sisters.

protect the family - the corp and it's people.

and obey. obey the corp above all else.

pretty standard military-totalitarian-orwellian stuff.