1. Farscape - WMDs And Tragedy Are The Only Way To End Conflicts
= The inevitable result of conflict is mass annihilation. Mass annihilation ends conflict. Only mass tragedy and shared experience can create empathy on a social level. That's a depressing tag line, which is probably why they didn't make that entire thing the name of the show. "Farscape" is much more appealing. For the uninitiated, Farscape is about John Crichton, all American astronaut who gets his ass rocketed across the galaxy in a wormhole. Once there he finds himself stuck on an escaping prison barge in the middle of a war in which everyone wants to saw open his brain to get his knowledge of wormholes out. In other words, kind of a bad hand to have been dealt. On the upside, Claudia Black is all over him, so it rather evens out. For anyone versed in WWII and post WWII history, the hidden meaning isn't all that hidden. Crichton is pretty much an allegory for Albert Einstein, who is responsible for the development of the Atomic Bomb. Not that he was all that excited about it, though. Much like Einstein, Crichton's knowledge is used to start a war using weapons of mass destruction, in this case a wormhole weapon. Where this one gets interesting is that the use of wormhole weapons isn't just something Crichton is afraid of, it's something that every other character in the universe is excited to see EXCEPT Crichton, making it an eventuality. Someone was going to make one. We just didn't know who. And, once deployed, Crichton knew that the weapon would completely end the conflict by destroying one or both sides of the war. It's a pretty bleak picture that gets painted throughout the series, especially through the finale movies. WMDs will be made simply because that's how politics works. When they get used, they will do exactly what they were intended for on a scale we couldn't have imagined. But, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Crichton's use of the weapons finally does bring the universe so close to its own destruction that warring faction can make peace. The meaning? As messed up as it was, the world needed to see the horror of atomic warfare in Japan. Without that we would never have reached the "relative peace" that exists now.