Episode 8 Discussion

[A Cousin]

(03-04-2012 11:14 PM)bardgal Wrote:  

(03-04-2012 09:35 PM)Nitrus Wrote:  I think you're reading far too much into this.

It's not a sodding documentary.

No it's not, it's an award winning drama series that prides itself for being up on current world political events in present day Earth.

I disagree. It doesn't pride itself on being current or prescient. It has always promoted itself as "high octane hokum" at most hyper-inflating current affairs to the nth degree and/or taking blind stabs on what could possibly, maybe happen in the future. When they did hit the mark rather closely, no one was more surprised (and creeped out) than they.

As for that particular gaff, I have always thought that it was intentional, specifically to keep plot clearly out of the realm of actual reality. The overall plot-arc of S8 in general is pretty far-fetched, IMO. It's allegorical, not reality.

Or it was simply just a mistake. They make them all over the 10 series if you fan-wank it enough. After all, while Secretary Clinton was sworn in during January of '09, the writers start writing S8 long before that. By all accounts, soon after the prior series wraps. They just missed it. I have forgiven them much worse.