Dysfunctional Shipping Awareness Month, Days 6&7

[pocochina]

Have y'all missed my stabby pointer finger? I know I have! Adama-grade temper tantrum about some extremely disturbing topics below the cut.

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[pocochina]

only started hating her in seasons 3 and 4 when everyone seemed to be treating her as a perfect hero (while Boomer got the opposite treatment and was turned into a scapegoat)

man, I love Boomer. That poor girl. I think Athena's anger at the other Cylons was super-interesting, but it doesn't make her seem sympathetic and righteous to me.

I can imagine Roslin's PR spinning it all that way if it got found out

ha! Consider me Laura Roslin's PR team. favorite ever.

What happened was that Laura Roslin kidnapped a baby from its parents. Pure and simple.

This is my thing: that spin on events (and it is spin just as much as my version) gets plenty of airing in the show, and even more airing in fandom. In part because people have a visceral reaction to this, and that's fine, it's a heavily emotional storyline. But *my* spin on events never gets presented except by me, and I think that's in large part because the show is successful in whitewashing Athena and guilting us into losing sight of what she did, to billions of people generally and Helo specifically.

That she kidnapped a baby as a person with state authority makes it all the creepier.

I mean, that's a valid reaction, and certainly the one the show intends you to have. But I happen to think that as a matter of ethics and policy, there are a very small number of circumstances where people lose their right to parent their biological children. and, um, emotionally exploitative rapist mass murderer fits the bill. There's things Roslin does that I wouldn't agree with in a rw context, but I gotta say this isn't one of them.