You know, we all do that sometimes, just because fannish space is so BIG, there's no way to follow everything. I often go out of my way to form irrational judgments about fandom just so I don't have to bother to keep up with them!
Anyway, I assure you that BSG does not lack for male OR female eye candy (steers you to hotcupofanders, for starters). And Apollo's love live is. . .complicated, to say the least. And usually the least interesting part of his character, just as the quasi-sibling rivals relationship between Apollo and Starbuck is more interesting than their occasional flirtation.
As for the racial changes in the original characters, I do think it's kind of tricky -- if they had kept Tigh as African-American and made him the darker character he is in the new series, you would have gotten "the black guy is a drunk!"; if they had kept his race and made him a purely virtuous character, he would have been accused of being a "Magical black person" -- etc, etc. Fandom needs to breathe sometimes.
And partly because I'm pimping this left and white, but also because it's a great introduction to Kara-as-a-character, and because it's about the joy and pain of reading comics, I need to rec Hellfire, which is a BSG/Xmen crossover, of sorts. And just because (http://community.livejournal.com/summers_fling/4753.html)
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Anyway, I assure you that BSG does not lack for male OR female eye candy (steers you to
As for the racial changes in the original characters, I do think it's kind of tricky -- if they had kept Tigh as African-American and made him the darker character he is in the new series, you would have gotten "the black guy is a drunk!"; if they had kept his race and made him a purely virtuous character, he would have been accused of being a "Magical black person" -- etc, etc. Fandom needs to breathe sometimes.
And partly because I'm pimping this left and white, but also because it's a great introduction to Kara-as-a-character, and because it's about the joy and pain of reading comics, I need to rec Hellfire, which is a BSG/Xmen crossover, of sorts.
And just because (http://community.livejournal.com/summers_fling/4753.html)