jewels
March 26th, 2003, 06:15 AM
Hope you all can permit me a Muffit-like moment.
I learned something this past fall that astonished me. I've always understood that diamonds were the hardest, most indestructable, naturally occuring substance in existence on Earth. But it is possible to destroy them.
I hate to say it but I found this out from one of those many news stories about the World Trade Center cleanup. You see inside WTC were banks with vaults & safe deposit boxes. Which of course had people's valuables stored in them: including diamond jewelry. When the boxes were reached the settings for the jewelry were there, but the diamonds were gone.
You see those intense fires that raged underground for 100 days had done the one thing that nothing other than a very hot fire can do. It vaporized the diamonds. Gold and silver can be purified in fire but diamonds: that most valuable of gemstones, can be completely destroyed at the molecular level by intense heat.
I think Universal, in the case of BSG, is poised on the brink of destroying a diamond mine with fire. The Moore/Eick team think that they are handling gold: that if they expose it to enough heat, it will burn off the "dross" of 70s disco era TV, the "too perfect to be real" characters that so offends them. When the reality is: Battlestar Galactica was and always will be a diamond, not yet a perfectly cut stone but one whose value, clarity and color can be exposed only if placed in the right jewelers hands for that perfect cut that reveals the beauty of its structure.
Universal, please don't vaporize your diamond mine. You really do have something that strong, that precious and that valuable: but it needs to be in the hands of an expert jeweler, not a blacksmith. Please give her to the folks that know her and can reveal her true beauty and value.
Thanks for listening.
Jewels
now you can all tease me about my handle and this metaphor LOL!
I learned something this past fall that astonished me. I've always understood that diamonds were the hardest, most indestructable, naturally occuring substance in existence on Earth. But it is possible to destroy them.
I hate to say it but I found this out from one of those many news stories about the World Trade Center cleanup. You see inside WTC were banks with vaults & safe deposit boxes. Which of course had people's valuables stored in them: including diamond jewelry. When the boxes were reached the settings for the jewelry were there, but the diamonds were gone.
You see those intense fires that raged underground for 100 days had done the one thing that nothing other than a very hot fire can do. It vaporized the diamonds. Gold and silver can be purified in fire but diamonds: that most valuable of gemstones, can be completely destroyed at the molecular level by intense heat.
I think Universal, in the case of BSG, is poised on the brink of destroying a diamond mine with fire. The Moore/Eick team think that they are handling gold: that if they expose it to enough heat, it will burn off the "dross" of 70s disco era TV, the "too perfect to be real" characters that so offends them. When the reality is: Battlestar Galactica was and always will be a diamond, not yet a perfectly cut stone but one whose value, clarity and color can be exposed only if placed in the right jewelers hands for that perfect cut that reveals the beauty of its structure.
Universal, please don't vaporize your diamond mine. You really do have something that strong, that precious and that valuable: but it needs to be in the hands of an expert jeweler, not a blacksmith. Please give her to the folks that know her and can reveal her true beauty and value.
Thanks for listening.
Jewels
now you can all tease me about my handle and this metaphor LOL!