Netflix is the devil, let's get that straight before we begin. And without going into exactly how addictive Netflix is... I've been watching Continuum recently.
For those of you who don't know, the premise of Continuum is as follows. In the year 2077, the planet is run by big corporations. At some point, the elected government failed, and the corporations bailed it out... then pretty much took over. There's almost no privacy, but the standard of living is very high. The corporate police are called "Protectors", and they've got some pretty good tech for upholding all of the corporate-defined laws.
There is also a group of people who are opposed to corporations running their lives. This group, called Liber8, engage in some very violent acts in their goal to oust the corporations and put a democratically elected government back in place. They want people's freedoms returned, as well as privacy. But in the process of seeking that goal, they do things like blowing up buildings full of innocent people. As such, they're labelled terrorists.
When the show starts, one Protector and six members of Liber8 get zapped back in time to 2012. The Liber8 members want to start their revolution early and take down the corporate monster before it has a chance to take root. The Protector wants them to fail so she can get back to her own time and still have a family and a son. Obviously, if they change history, the future she goes back to will be different... and her son may not even exist.
My spouse and I have had several passionate discussions about the show... neither of us supports big megalocorps being in charge of everything, but neither of us approves of killing innocent people either. But it turns out that we have different ideas of what constitutes acceptable collateral damage. We can't figure out who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are.
Here's where this gets in to the Social Issues category:
Where do you draw the line on what constitutes a terrorist versus a rebel?
How much collateral damage is acceptable in seeking a goal you see as moral?
Is Liber8 any more acceptable than religious terrorists?
For those of you who don't know, the premise of Continuum is as follows. In the year 2077, the planet is run by big corporations. At some point, the elected government failed, and the corporations bailed it out... then pretty much took over. There's almost no privacy, but the standard of living is very high. The corporate police are called "Protectors", and they've got some pretty good tech for upholding all of the corporate-defined laws.
There is also a group of people who are opposed to corporations running their lives. This group, called Liber8, engage in some very violent acts in their goal to oust the corporations and put a democratically elected government back in place. They want people's freedoms returned, as well as privacy. But in the process of seeking that goal, they do things like blowing up buildings full of innocent people. As such, they're labelled terrorists.
When the show starts, one Protector and six members of Liber8 get zapped back in time to 2012. The Liber8 members want to start their revolution early and take down the corporate monster before it has a chance to take root. The Protector wants them to fail so she can get back to her own time and still have a family and a son. Obviously, if they change history, the future she goes back to will be different... and her son may not even exist.
My spouse and I have had several passionate discussions about the show... neither of us supports big megalocorps being in charge of everything, but neither of us approves of killing innocent people either. But it turns out that we have different ideas of what constitutes acceptable collateral damage. We can't figure out who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are.
Here's where this gets in to the Social Issues category:
Where do you draw the line on what constitutes a terrorist versus a rebel?
How much collateral damage is acceptable in seeking a goal you see as moral?
Is Liber8 any more acceptable than religious terrorists?
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