Hmmm, honestly I think that most of new BSG fandom isn't particularly familiar with the original series. I bet if you polled the majority of fans they wouldn't be able to tell you that Tigh and Boomer were originally black men. Also:
Tigh's transition from competant (black) admiral to apparently evil (white) colonel,
Tigh may be evil in the same mentality that has Tony Stark up for "best comics villain" in some poll I just saw. I'm willing to bet if you watched the show, he'd be your favorite (except maybe Tom Zarek -- *points to icon*, fans self with Richard Hatch love)
and about the fact that the writers chose to cut Sheba (the female pilot who serves as Apollo's love interest in the original) and replace Starbuck with... a female pilot who could be a love interest for Apollo (so, what was wrong with the one they already had?)
Most fans (or, cough, most people who watch the show for the stories and not for their beloved ship) will tell that Starbuck and Apollo are far more compelling when NOT framed as each other's love interests. In fact, Apollo had his first major romance -- and current marriage --with a different (and, incidentally, non-white) character. Seeing Starbuck as primarily "Apollo's love interest" seems to be baggage that fandom brought to the show but not part of the show itself from the beginning. Kara is actually introduced as the former fiancee of his dead brother, which (if fandom wasn't crazy) one would think would actually mitigate against shipping them.
The race wank definitely HAS happened in BSG, though -- it just mostly happened in 2003 when the show was initially cast. If the wank is not going on now, it's because (a) it's been gone over before and (b) there have been a lot of recent developments in that fandom that are keeping people busy.
I would agree that the casting of major roles, as with almost all television shows (is there a current exception besides Grey's Anatomy?) could be more diverse. (Though Edward James Olmos is so heavily identified as a Latino actor -- even while not playing a Latino character -- that it's hard to view even the major cast as lily-white).
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Date: 2007-03-31 06:14 am (UTC)Tigh's transition from competant (black) admiral to apparently evil (white) colonel,
Tigh may be evil in the same mentality that has Tony Stark up for "best comics villain" in some poll I just saw. I'm willing to bet if you watched the show, he'd be your favorite (except maybe Tom Zarek -- *points to icon*, fans self with Richard Hatch love)
and about the fact that the writers chose to cut Sheba (the female pilot who serves as Apollo's love interest in the original) and replace Starbuck with... a female pilot who could be a love interest for Apollo (so, what was wrong with the one they already had?)
Most fans (or, cough, most people who watch the show for the stories and not for their beloved ship) will tell that Starbuck and Apollo are far more compelling when NOT framed as each other's love interests. In fact, Apollo had his first major romance -- and current marriage --with a different (and, incidentally, non-white) character. Seeing Starbuck as primarily "Apollo's love interest" seems to be baggage that fandom brought to the show but not part of the show itself from the beginning. Kara is actually introduced as the former fiancee of his dead brother, which (if fandom wasn't crazy) one would think would actually mitigate against shipping them.
The race wank definitely HAS happened in BSG, though -- it just mostly happened in 2003 when the show was initially cast. If the wank is not going on now, it's because (a) it's been gone over before and (b) there have been a lot of recent developments in that fandom that are keeping people busy.
I would agree that the casting of major roles, as with almost all television shows (is there a current exception besides Grey's Anatomy?) could be more diverse. (Though Edward James Olmos is so heavily identified as a Latino actor -- even while not playing a Latino character -- that it's hard to view even the major cast as lily-white).