David Weddle Quotes (2 Quotes)

We are not on the sets very often because the show is shot in Vancouver, and we are here at Universal (in California) frantically hammering out future episodes, ... We participate in preproduction meetings and cast table reads via conference calls and get storyboards on special effects sequences from Vancouver. We often do rewrites to accommodate ideas from the director or to address production problems.

In other words, the Sharon interrogation scenes are not in any way meant as a comment on gender roles or domestic abuse. They embody one of the main allegorical themes of the show, which is the tendency to dehumanize the enemy in times of war. This has been going on since the dawn of time. We convince ourselves that the enemy is somehow less than human, does not value life the way we do or share any of our common values. This enables us to rationalize and justify the terrible things we do to our enemies such as kill and torture them.