Posted: March 11, 2000 at 02:02:34: by Karyn
The adage about a good military force acting like a "well-oiled machine" applies to not only how efficiently it behaves but as to how mechanical its soldiers behave. You have to desensitize to some degree--otherwise how do you come to grips with the fact that you are called upon to kill your fellow man?--and the more successfully the army can desensitize the more successful they are on the battlefield. Well, mostly; an army with its back to the wall, stirring emotion, fights well...but that's another tangent.Anywho. The concensus so far is that the Peacekeepers are not without emotion--take another look at Aeryn as she leaves Crais in the Aurora chair if you disagree--but that it has been conditioned out of them as much as possible. Keep in mind they are kids when they are taken from their families & indoctrinated into the Peacekeeper army; they are much easier to mold as such. A more extreme example of this would be the recent flick Soldier...it's kind of cheesy but the presentation of a "perfect" soldier that has been raised as a soldier literally from birth was pretty dead on, I thought. As for John & D'Argo...chalk it up to another plot oversight like the missing mask dude (just blanked on his name, John's cellmate) or what happened to Emlee. Maybe there was an explanation there somewhere, lost among the same key details like how many people Emlee ate and whether John's cellmate is currently contemplating his navel somewhere on Moya or an unnamed planet they dropped him off on... Karyn
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