Originally posted by an0n
No it isn't. The government is good. The government is right. The government represents your best interests. The government wants you to return its love by fighting its enemies. Terrorists. Traitors. Silicates. Single Mothers. The government loves you. If your parents ask: There is no government. That is all.
an0n's reference to Silicates is from S:AAB. Silicates are human-looking AI robots that occasionally appeared in several episodes of S:AAB. A list of S:AAB episodes in which Silicates appeared is as follows:
Dark Side of the Sun (Shane finds out why her parents were killed by Silicates: a coin came up tails)
Choice or Chance (Wang is tortured by a Silicate and his confession is recorded)
Angriest Angel (McQueen interrogates a Silicate (and arguably becomes a war criminal in the process) to find out where a Chig ace pilot is located)
Pearly (Wang encounters another Silicate of the same model that tortured him in "Choice or Chance" and negotiates with it to destroy the recording of his confession)
And here's a memorable quote from the
Stardust episode of S:AAB, which I still remember after more than eight years:
"So, did she give you anything?"
"Yeah. The creeps."
-- West (or was it Wang?) and Hawkes,
Stardust, Space: Above and Beyond
EDIT: Something else I just remembered: In one of my personal favorite episodes,
Who Monitors the Birds?, we see flashbacks of Hawkes In Vitro training, where he is being indoctrinated alongside other In Vitros by watching a projector slide that shows only single sentences. The projector show several slides and I remember some of the sentences saying stuff like: "You are In Vitros. Created to be soldiers. Created to combat Humanity's greatest enemy. Silicates."
After seeing an0n's above post that I quoted here, it occurred to me that his single sentences were reminiscient of the slides in
Who Monitors the Birds? DG, do I get the dollar?
