To be honest, the whole story of BSG has little to do with science fiction, but it pays extraordinary attention to human nature. If Camander/Admiral Adama in the first three seasons is still a serious and kind old man, Admiral Cain in Razor is simply synonymous with coldness. Our era has entered the 21st century. Women becoming generals and presidents are no longer a fiction in science fiction, but the earth has become a living reality. But the nature of human power has never changed, and human nature has remained unchanged for tens of thousands of years. General Cain and her subordinate, Lieutenant Kendra Shaw, are no exception.
The story is actually very simple. The new officer Kendra of the Ministry of National Defense just arrived on the Battlestar Pegasus and encountered Cylon airstrikes. They escaped with a single ship under the command of General Cain. However, unlike the Adama fleet, they set their own decisions. The goal below is not to maintain the human race and find the homeland of the earth, but simply two words-revenge. They went further and further on the road of revenge until they finally met Galactica of Adama. However, Captain Kendra Shaw refused to leave in a mission a few months later, manually activated the nuclear bomb and died with the Cylon battleship.
But after watching this thrilling adventure of Pegasus, I can't help but want to ask myself: Did General Cain do something wrong? I don't think so. All 12 human colonies were destroyed, which was tens of thousands of times more severe than the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese. Every resident who survived should be eager to eat the enemy's flesh and skin. As for the execution of those who disobey orders, this is the iron law on the battlefield; the torture of prisoners is to obtain information; the killing of civilians is to eliminate unnecessary resistance. All of this, as the god of Cylon said, has happened before and will happen again in the future. Of course, we can believe that just wars are won with flowers and hymns, as stated in a history book compiled by a certain party, and believe that victory can be won entirely by virtue of treating subordinates, preferential treatment of captives, and loving the people like children. But the real war cannot be like this. Victory is forged with blood, which includes not only the blood of the enemy, but also the blood of one's own people, but also the blood that flows silently from the trauma of the war experiencers. We have never experienced a war. Even if we are now thrown on the battlefield, no one has the courage to kill without blinking, even against the enemy. But I'm not sure whether we will be so civilized—or, according to General Cain's point of view—cowardly when our family and friends are all killed by the enemy and hatred fills our hearts.
Lieutenant Shaw is one of ordinary people like us. When disaster strikes, my heart is filled with shock, fear and anger, and the hope of revenge no longer echoes in my heart all the time. But what General Cain did during the months on the Pegasus continued to torture his own conscience: Can you shoot the XO you've been along with yourself? Can you send your lover to torture with torture + gang rape? Can you order the execution of the families of civilians who resisted? Most people, including most of the Pegasus crew, can only answer this: I can't, you should kill me. And General Cain's reaction to this was the cold bullet and the decisive words bursting out of the teeth: execute the command!
Shaw is sinking deeper and deeper in this environment. She almost believed General Cain's explanation for this: this was done to survive. She even began to take the initiative to implement General Cain's orders: to shoot at the families of the crew members who resisted forcibly accepting the civilian ship. She only fired one shot, but ten people fell in the subsequent looting. So she was commended by General Cain, promoted to captain, and received a gift: a sharp knife from Cain. From then on, she began to treat her subordinates as seriously as Cain, and at the same time strictly required herself to be ten times the standard: be strong and decisive, not afraid of danger, not afraid of sacrifice, and complete the task as the highest goal. But when she is alone, she is fragile. She can face the gun without fear and order the opponent to pull the trigger, but every time she thinks of the incident on the Scylla, she has to use drugs to numb herself. Starbuck discovered her secret. Although he had killed a mmm for the same reason before, he still remained unresolved. Captain Shaw chose not to return.
All of it had happened before, and it will happen again, again, again...
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