See, this is what I get for not, you know, actually ever having watched an episode of the show ^_~. My knowledge of New BSG is based entirely upon the titles and blurbs of stuff that shows up on metafandom, plus the odd bit of semi-coherant rant or squee. (Kind of like basing one's knowledge of comics off s_d and the meta titles on comicstore_news--I should ahve known better).
The "Not really sci-fi 'cause it's good" attitude I saw in a couple of places in the mainstream press, plus the fact that Original!Starbuck was my favorite character (from old BSG re-runs), has, as I said, poisoned me against it sight-unseen. I watched the old show for the buddy vibe between Apollo and Starbuck, and so that I could drool over Starbuck in his flight uniform--and I have a much harder time drooling over female military pilots because my sister is one.
I'm glad to hear that they kept Apollo's marriage in the plot (is the kid still around, too?).
The race wank definitely HAS happened in BSG, though -- it just mostly happened in 2003 when the show was initially cast.
My faith in fandom's ability to deconstruct absolutely everything ever looking for implicit or explicit racism is restored.
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Date: 2007-04-01 10:42 pm (UTC)The "Not really sci-fi 'cause it's good" attitude I saw in a couple of places in the mainstream press, plus the fact that Original!Starbuck was my favorite character (from old BSG re-runs), has, as I said, poisoned me against it sight-unseen. I watched the old show for the buddy vibe between Apollo and Starbuck, and so that I could drool over Starbuck in his flight uniform--and I have a much harder time drooling over female military pilots because my sister is one.
I'm glad to hear that they kept Apollo's marriage in the plot (is the kid still around, too?).
The race wank definitely HAS happened in BSG, though -- it just mostly happened in 2003 when the show was initially cast.
My faith in fandom's ability to deconstruct absolutely everything ever looking for implicit or explicit racism is restored.