BSG remix reveals and an attempt at analyzing why I write fic

[rose_griffes]

BSG remix reveals have been posted. I wrote The Hour Is Getting Late, a tiny fic with Tory's POV during the season three finale. Tory/Sam, PG-13.

While I think the end result is fine, I sort of wish I could ask for a do-over. It was incredibly frustrating trying to write Battlestar Galactica fanfic when my brain was wanting to focus on new show

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[brickhousewench]

I've loved Zoe from the beginning. I just didn't discover the POI comms until about four or five episodes after she first showed up.

[rose_griffes]

Sometimes this show's fandom makes me miss fandoms for shows that had more female characters.

[brickhousewench]

I think it all depends on the story and how the characters fit into it

[rose_griffes]

I suspect that there are few writers in Hollywood who have any idea how to write strong female characters.While that's certainly an element, I think there's also the aspect of the audience being trained all of our lives to accept that male characters are the default "for everyone" setting. Fiction media with mostly female characters often gets dismissed as chick flicks, chick lit, etc. (Dismissed in how it's marketed, dismissed by a male audience because they're not supposed to identify with girls, dismissed by some of the women to whom it's marketed, because we're taught that women's stories are less important.) Plus female characters in male-dominated shows often get measured by a more exacting standard than the male characters

[brickhousewench]

Straczynski wrote Babylon5, which up until the new Battlestar, had the best set of female characters in science fiction (IMHO). Ivanova is still one of my all time favorite characters.

And an interesting thing that i recently read about Whedon is that a lot of what he does in Buffy is turn the genders upside down. This isn't my idea, I recently read someone's meta post about Buffy/Spike where they talked about how Buffy was the "abusive boyfriend" and Spike was the "emotionally battered girlfriend who keeps coming back for more." And i thought that was fascinating, because as much time as the Wasband and I spent hashing over all the brilliant stuff in that show, we'd never talked about the gender roles.

Fiction media with mostly female characters often gets dismissed as chick flicks, chick lit, etc.Generally true, but it also depends on how the characters are presented. Past favorites of mine with female leads include Alias (lead female is a spy), The Closer (lead female is a police interrogator), and mixed ensembles with strong

[lyssie]

The only reason I ever watched Human Target was for the ladies, so I'm one of the people who thought they did an ok job introducing them/adding them (and were interesting). Then again, I'd watch Indira Varma read the phonebook.

[brickhousewench]

I did rather like Indira Varma. I just didn't quite like how sort of helpless and flailing her character tended to be.

There was really only one episode where they did her character justice (Communication Breakdown) and I had hope that the writers might actually do something with her. That was the episode where they revealed that her character had grown up in a rough neighborhood and had actually been shot. But then they didn't go anywhere with that, like it wasn't motivation for her wanting to protect people so they didn't have to go through what she went through. It was just this random scene where Chance spots a scar on her shoulder. A scar that then disappeared in the VERY NEXT episode (Imbroglio) when she was wearing a slinky evening gown! *shakes fists at show*