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Upon revisiting Battlestar Galactica fandom, I have come to two conclusions. 1), I love this show. 2), the only way I'm going to live with the finale is to stick my fingers in my ears and pretend that the nuclear wasteland planet is our Earth, and the one they settle on is another, similar planet. (We're not even going to get into the Luddite thing, because that's a wallbanger for me). What? It's possible! If Kobol can have our constellations and the Twelve Colonies can just happen to have our accents, there can totally be an Earth mark II. Perhaps it was built as a supercomputer. A civilization similar to ours but subtly different, influenced by the immigrated Colonials and their merging with the proto-humans as well as the different ecology, evolved along a track that brought it to a state similar to our modern one - which is similar to the Colonies, to Earth mark I, and to the world the Five came from. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again. (Though this brings up interesting issues, because I thought the implication was that by allying they were going to break the technology vs humanity cycle?). What's that you're talking about? Word of God? I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR YOU ALL THE WAY OVER THERE. *hums loudly*
Also, could we mention that The Plan, besides being an enormous(ly satisfying) humiliation conga for Cavil, proves what a giant fucking badass Tori is - and then is promptly not touched on? I can only assume that Rekha Sharma wasn't available for much of the filming, because I would love to see how she got from crawling out of a wrecked car in a nuclear zone to getting on a ship to being the President's aid. I also feel she got kind of screwed in 4.5. I totally understand how killing Cally would be a moral event horizon, but her sudden anti-human turn isn't IMO properly explained, and then no one particularly cares when she gets killed. (Tigh's "if someone did that to Ellen" line bothered me a bit, because, dude, you did do that to Ellen).
Some of the meta about queerness in media that's been going around has been ticking me off. I'm not saying that one should never critique media or that one must be complimentary to everything at all times, but it just seems like a useless exercise to criticize old media - such as shows that are off the air - on the grounds of heterosexism/similar. The point is not that old shows failed at stuff. The point should be figuring out how to influence the canons that are still running, or better yet the canons of tomorrow, to be more inclusive. And, no, I don't know how to do that. But running around going "Oh, [canceled show] is so heterosexist" just seems like beating a very dead horse to me. (Also, I am a stickler for correct use of language and do not like the use of homophobia when there is not a fear or prejudice being displayed. If the show is just devoid of queer, it's not actually homophobic).
(And finally, looping back to the topic in the beginning, while I think it's a great point that all the queer in BSG happened extratextually, I am totally ready to have an argument about whether Gaeta is a villain or not. Cain is one of the most reprehensible characters in the series, but Gaeta was, like almost everyone, a character who was faced by bad options and took the one that he thought was right. He explicitly refused to cross the moral event horizon with Zarek. He was on the wrong side in the end, but I can't say that he was a bad guy).
Furthermore: Warm fuzzies - I lacks them. This video provides.
Also, could we mention that The Plan, besides being an enormous(ly satisfying) humiliation conga for Cavil, proves what a giant fucking badass Tori is - and then is promptly not touched on? I can only assume that Rekha Sharma wasn't available for much of the filming, because I would love to see how she got from crawling out of a wrecked car in a nuclear zone to getting on a ship to being the President's aid. I also feel she got kind of screwed in 4.5. I totally understand how killing Cally would be a moral event horizon, but her sudden anti-human turn isn't IMO properly explained, and then no one particularly cares when she gets killed. (Tigh's "if someone did that to Ellen" line bothered me a bit, because, dude, you did do that to Ellen).
Some of the meta about queerness in media that's been going around has been ticking me off. I'm not saying that one should never critique media or that one must be complimentary to everything at all times, but it just seems like a useless exercise to criticize old media - such as shows that are off the air - on the grounds of heterosexism/similar. The point is not that old shows failed at stuff. The point should be figuring out how to influence the canons that are still running, or better yet the canons of tomorrow, to be more inclusive. And, no, I don't know how to do that. But running around going "Oh, [canceled show] is so heterosexist" just seems like beating a very dead horse to me. (Also, I am a stickler for correct use of language and do not like the use of homophobia when there is not a fear or prejudice being displayed. If the show is just devoid of queer, it's not actually homophobic).
(And finally, looping back to the topic in the beginning, while I think it's a great point that all the queer in BSG happened extratextually, I am totally ready to have an argument about whether Gaeta is a villain or not. Cain is one of the most reprehensible characters in the series, but Gaeta was, like almost everyone, a character who was faced by bad options and took the one that he thought was right. He explicitly refused to cross the moral event horizon with Zarek. He was on the wrong side in the end, but I can't say that he was a bad guy).
Furthermore: Warm fuzzies - I lacks them. This video provides.
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