From the Battlestar Galactica Blog:
"Why does the doctor smoke?"
Because smoking is cool. Don't let anyone tell you different, kid.
Ooo, he's worse than Hitler saying that to the kids :-). I got the pilot episode for BG the other day from Amazon.ca and ... it's unbelievably good (except for the part of the vipers flying 8 feet away from each other). I sat down and put on the headphones, ignored the family and watched the whole 3 hours straight through.
It continues:
Seriously, we're showing people doing what people really do and not all of their choices are smart ones. We smoke, we drink, we have sex with the wrong partners -- we make lots of bad choices and some of them we do knowingly and in full cognizance of the risks and consequences. Dr. Cottle obviously knows the risks associated with smoking and he elects to do it anyway -- that's his choice.
I'm also frankly tired of all the anti-smoking p.c. crap that we're bombarded with these days and I decided that this was a world without all that. Call it my one sop to the idea of an idealized society, the notion that adults can make informed choices and not be nagged to death or run out of public spaces for making choices that others may not like or agree with.
No wonder I think this show is so good. The writer's a fracken frakkin' Libertarian.
