Cally, Dee, and Ellen: on the reviled feminine on BSG (Ellen)

[pocochina]

womenlovefest TIME!

Day 1: what gender-neutral society?
Day 2: why these ladies?
Day 3: Ellen Tigh

I was going to go in alphabetical order to avoid showing favoritism, but there have already been a couple of comments about Ellen! Possibly I have tipped my hand regarding my everlasting love slight bias.

Comments

[pocochina]

I am thrilled to have inspired Ellen thoughts! <3 <3

The Final Five thing was a bit of a mixed bag, I agree. It paid off for Ellen so I'm biased in favor, but I acknowledge the problems with Tyrol and Saul. I thought it worked for Anders in terms of making him so much more interesting, but it was pretty incongruous with his backstory. It would've worked brilliantly for Tory if she'd gotten the screen time she deserved.

we have to talk around what their motives are for and how their character development actually works behind the scenes that we see and guess what was in their heads at certain times, and rely on how awesome the actors may be and how well they throw themselves into their character and scenes.

Yeah. I also think it's a byproduct of volume - so much to say and so little time - and then the question of ownership is so murky. (ie, I think my Lee belongs far more to Jamie Bamber than to Moore or Eick, but because they did decide what would happen to him, it pulls at the seams sometimes.) I feel like we have to kind of flip the end product on its side to see it all. Which I know gives the series a lot of depth it wouldn't have otherwise, but the prioritization choices can be so frustrating.