I know I'm years behind the times, but I'm finally watching Battlestar Galactica and completely in love with it. (Only about three quarters through the third season! Don't spoil it for me
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It's fascinating to see how completely differently we can read the same thing ;)
I disagree with you about Cain versus Adama - I think there was nothing good or essentially subversive about the gender reversal, because it basically played into the paternalistic notions of a good military commander US is in love with, whose role is basically that of a father to all (whereas his morally questionable behaviour is completely out of line, he is arbitrary, sanctimonious and nepotistic, and the show consistently tries to spin it as though he were awesome). Besides, I hate how his love for Tigh is so important when there is no friendship between any women on the show. Bromances. Ugh.
Cain, on the other hand, served to show how women who achieve success in traditionally male environments cannot stay humane, especially if they are transgressive in other ways. That's not unusual, that's actually a stereotype, especially considering the show's ongoing critique of Roslin's moral fibre and its insistence that she needs to be more human and feminine. This is also why I hate Adama/Roslin - it is constantly used to show that Roslin, to be normal/human, has to play the heterosexual game.
Lee is the white, blue-eyed, upper class hero whose Childhood Trauma gives him carte blanche to be a jerk all his life, and who the viewer is supposed to identify with. I think both Kara and Dee are too good for him ;)
I disagree with you about Cain versus Adama - I think there was nothing good or essentially subversive about the gender reversal, because it basically played into the paternalistic notions of a good military commander US is in love with, whose role is basically that of a father to all (whereas his morally questionable behaviour is completely out of line, he is arbitrary, sanctimonious and nepotistic, and the show consistently tries to spin it as though he were awesome). Besides, I hate how his love for Tigh is so important when there is no friendship between any women on the show. Bromances. Ugh.
Cain, on the other hand, served to show how women who achieve success in traditionally male environments cannot stay humane, especially if they are transgressive in other ways. That's not unusual, that's actually a stereotype, especially considering the show's ongoing critique of Roslin's moral fibre and its insistence that she needs to be more human and feminine. This is also why I hate Adama/Roslin - it is constantly used to show that Roslin, to be normal/human, has to play the heterosexual game.
Lee is the white, blue-eyed, upper class hero whose Childhood Trauma gives him carte blanche to be a jerk all his life, and who the viewer is supposed to identify with. I think both Kara and Dee are too good for him ;)
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