BSG Series Finale
Mar. 22nd, 2009 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blairprovenceOtherwise know as "First, let's kill all the WOMEN!"
But I'll get to that in a minute...
I always think people who romanticize the past and wax nostalgic about simpler times are SO FUCKING STUPID! You'd think they'd have landed a few ships just to scavenge the metal so they wouldn't be farming with STONE IMPLEMENTS or some such shit. For God's sake, Lee, it's not like they were gonna build Caprica city - but maybe an infirmary and a grain silo and a few other luxuries wouldn't be, like, the beginning of the end, but rather a way to keep the 30,000 or so who survived the damn trip a possibility of living through the next year!
But, honestly, my biggest problem with the series was that they killed ALL OF THE WOMEN who ever had a speaking line who weren't Cylons willing to fuck human men. And every time they had some kind of a choice between a natural pair, they offed the woman.
Tory or Galen - bye bye, Tory
Racetrack or Hotdog - Racetrack
Roslin or Adama - Roslin
Starbuck or Lee - Starbuck
Bye Prophecy Lady, bye Admiral Cain, bye Dee, bye Cally, bye Boomer, bye Natalie etc. etc. etc.
Why did Galen survive? Why did Adama? Narratively, they didn't have to, but of course they have penises.
And I thought the Helo resurrection was cheap for just that reason.
Seriously, of the significant characters, the only women who lived were Ellen, Athena and Caprica. And the only men who died were Zarek, Gaeta and Sam. Am I right?
It's funny to me now that one of the hooks for this show was GREAT FEMALE CHARACTERS! Yeah, so you could KILL THEM!
Agh. It's really galling, because I think the narrative could have worked, but there was a lot of FAIL in the details.
But I'll get to that in a minute...
I always think people who romanticize the past and wax nostalgic about simpler times are SO FUCKING STUPID! You'd think they'd have landed a few ships just to scavenge the metal so they wouldn't be farming with STONE IMPLEMENTS or some such shit. For God's sake, Lee, it's not like they were gonna build Caprica city - but maybe an infirmary and a grain silo and a few other luxuries wouldn't be, like, the beginning of the end, but rather a way to keep the 30,000 or so who survived the damn trip a possibility of living through the next year!
But, honestly, my biggest problem with the series was that they killed ALL OF THE WOMEN who ever had a speaking line who weren't Cylons willing to fuck human men. And every time they had some kind of a choice between a natural pair, they offed the woman.
Tory or Galen - bye bye, Tory
Racetrack or Hotdog - Racetrack
Roslin or Adama - Roslin
Starbuck or Lee - Starbuck
Bye Prophecy Lady, bye Admiral Cain, bye Dee, bye Cally, bye Boomer, bye Natalie etc. etc. etc.
Why did Galen survive? Why did Adama? Narratively, they didn't have to, but of course they have penises.
And I thought the Helo resurrection was cheap for just that reason.
Seriously, of the significant characters, the only women who lived were Ellen, Athena and Caprica. And the only men who died were Zarek, Gaeta and Sam. Am I right?
It's funny to me now that one of the hooks for this show was GREAT FEMALE CHARACTERS! Yeah, so you could KILL THEM!
Agh. It's really galling, because I think the narrative could have worked, but there was a lot of FAIL in the details.
