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+ vid rec: obsessive24's Wicked Game (BSG), which is about Dee, omg, I remember why I loved her so much all over again. And it also made me all ragey at 4.5 all over again!
Sometimes I forget about how ALL THE WOMEN ARE DEAD, then I remember and get angry again. Just, wtf, BSG was so obsessed with women and death - it became the foremost thing in Roslin and Kara's character arcs, and Tory and Cally and Dee and Kat and Boomer and Maya and all the other women who died. this page, complete with pictures, is so, so telling - look at the race and gender make-up of the ones who survived versus the ones that didn't.
But hey, at least some of the Cylon women survived! Except that they all died at least once, too, and the whole way the show coded female cylon downloading vs. male was really weird too. You can kill the robot chicks again and again so they can go writhe around naked in some goo, because they're disposable, and they can die for their men - Caprica saves Baltar by sacrificing herself, Helo shoots Athena so she can download onto the baseship to get Hera, Ellen lets Saul poison her. But when the male cylons die it makes them more threatening, because you can kill Leoben over and over but you'll still be his prisoner, and Cavil will still haul people off to prisons, and all that stuff really hacked me off.
Oh, BSG, in the end you were just like everyone else - only the straight white dudes are tough enough to survive! With the exceptions of Adama, Hoshi, Seelix and Baltar's cult. Um.
/rant
+ Relatedly, this post on queer subtext hit me -right here-. Because yes. We have so, so little positive representation in both mainstream and genre TV, and it makes such a difference. All I want are characters who are like me and alive and get to be happy, and -- well, that's not been the case for a while. I am thus both cautiously optimistic and VERY NERVOUS about Skins S4. *clings to Naomi & Emily* I am also looking forward to the new BBC drama, Lip Service, which is about 20-something lesbians in Glasgow. *crosses fingers* (And AfterEllen's article on it made me laugh - oh, The L Word. I loved you, and am still fond of your early seasons, but really.
+ blog carnival: Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships (February 2010 edition) is being hosted by
avendya at
disability, with submissions due by February 20th. \o/
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Sometimes I forget about how ALL THE WOMEN ARE DEAD, then I remember and get angry again. Just, wtf, BSG was so obsessed with women and death - it became the foremost thing in Roslin and Kara's character arcs, and Tory and Cally and Dee and Kat and Boomer and Maya and all the other women who died. this page, complete with pictures, is so, so telling - look at the race and gender make-up of the ones who survived versus the ones that didn't.
But hey, at least some of the Cylon women survived! Except that they all died at least once, too, and the whole way the show coded female cylon downloading vs. male was really weird too. You can kill the robot chicks again and again so they can go writhe around naked in some goo, because they're disposable, and they can die for their men - Caprica saves Baltar by sacrificing herself, Helo shoots Athena so she can download onto the baseship to get Hera, Ellen lets Saul poison her. But when the male cylons die it makes them more threatening, because you can kill Leoben over and over but you'll still be his prisoner, and Cavil will still haul people off to prisons, and all that stuff really hacked me off.
Oh, BSG, in the end you were just like everyone else - only the straight white dudes are tough enough to survive! With the exceptions of Adama, Hoshi, Seelix and Baltar's cult. Um.
/rant
+ Relatedly, this post on queer subtext hit me -right here-. Because yes. We have so, so little positive representation in both mainstream and genre TV, and it makes such a difference. All I want are characters who are like me and alive and get to be happy, and -- well, that's not been the case for a while. I am thus both cautiously optimistic and VERY NERVOUS about Skins S4. *clings to Naomi & Emily* I am also looking forward to the new BBC drama, Lip Service, which is about 20-something lesbians in Glasgow. *crosses fingers* (And AfterEllen's article on it made me laugh - oh, The L Word. I loved you, and am still fond of your early seasons, but really.
+ blog carnival: Disability Blog Carnival #63: Relationships (February 2010 edition) is being hosted by
avendya at
disability, with submissions due by February 20th. \o/
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