BSG character typing

[pocochina]

So a couple of days ago I took a stab at the Myers-Briggs types of the Supernatural characters, and one of you enablers was like "hey, you don't happen to have an OBSCENE amount of thoughts about the BSG ensemble by any chance?" and I was like "LOL OF COURSE NOT, BY WHICH I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY." This is a lot more off-the-cuff but I think I can defend

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[noybusiness]

Interesting, very interesting.

Nothing on the Sixes?

[pocochina]

I've seen Caprica typed as an INFJ but I think I'd actually go with ENFJ? I think they have have epic middle child issues and are out for as much validation as they can get.

too much fun

[auroramama]

Dear Spouse and I were both intrigued by this, so I tried to find out about the shadow functions, but got hopelessly lost in the lower-case e and i and the rules about which one goes with which type.

I did like the explanation that dichotomies like N/S are not extremes on a scale but paired functions, because the single thing that bothered me most about the assessment test was the set of T/F questions: on a short form (7 questions per section) my answer to every question was "Yes, both, extremely."

Dear Spouse, on the other hand, ends up as INFP pretty consistently. He's also one of the few people I know who fit their astrological sign perfectly.

Re: too much fun

[pocochina]

I did like the explanation that dichotomies like N/S are not extremes on a scale but paired functions, because the single thing that bothered me most about the assessment test was the set of T/F questions: on a short form (7 questions per section) my answer to every question was "Yes, both, extremely."

Yeah. I took a test at....similarminds.com, maybe? or with a group doing a study, I can't remember... a while back and the way the results were scored made a lot of sense to me in how it showed how strong each function was and it didn't have to be, you know, all-or-nothing or even zero-sum. ie, I was an introverted thinker, so my strongest preference was for logical reasoning type stuff, but I had more use of extraverted thinking (like, executive functioning) than either use of sensing. And I think that can be useful.

You are so right about Laura

[anonymous]

When I have seen this before, I have been dumbstruck at what's attributed to Laura. She is SO ISTJ. It is interesting how Laura's latter half of season one and Kobol storyline seems do distracting. She spells it out so clearly in her 'Reality says ...' dialogue in the first KLG episode. There's nothing intuitive about the way she approaches things, and the only time in her decision-making she lets feeling override thought is over the election and that is brought about by Bill pressing emotionally very hard. With Baltar he gets under her skin but she has a constant thought commentary. She's actually more scary with Baltar in Escape Velocity because she has thought out what she is doing

Re: You are so right about Laura

[pocochina]

Yeah, every time I've seen BSG typing, the choices for Laura have been not just things I disagreed with, but found downright bizarre. I mean, I think it's symptomatic of how people project weird shit onto her always, but it's frustrating because there is such solid logic there, both in how she works as a created character and how she thinks in-universe. SO ISTJ, I can't see her as anything else.

I stand by my Bill typing! I think he's very outwardly-focused - he gets his self-image from being a father (the "you see yourself reflected in their eyes" conversation in Razor, frex); he is very conscious of the image he presents to his crew, which leads him to be somewhat isolated in his effort to preserve his seniority, but he doesn't like it (the first thing he'll crab about to Saul is how no one understands the pressures of command). He blows up in front of people easily; it's not just a heat of the moment thing, he calls Dee into his office in Home so she can hold his hand through his talk about ~rage. He likes to learn names and

Re: You are so right about Laura

[anonymous]

The Bill introvert-extrovert one is very interesting . I entirely see your case. It just seems to me that he shows clear introverted tendencies as well that to me seem stronger. Even in the boxing he is only putting a part of himself out there. The deep struggle going on is an internal one about Laura. I think he needs company but he doesn't seem to get energy or his sense of self from it.

Using the way Jung originally defined the distinction using the focus of psychic energy between object and subject I can see him and Laura as different here as it makes him introverted and her extroverted given the way he filters much more of the way he looks at the world through his sense of self and she always starts with the world. That would then make Bill, Lee, and Kara and Gaius similar in this respect and Laura stand out as being very different, which I think she does.

Re: You are so right about Laura

[pocochina]

he filters much more of the way he looks at the world through his sense of self and she always starts with the world.

I tend to think of that as a S/N thing? Laura is a sensor, very in tune with facts, which means observing the world in as depersonalized a way as possible. Intuitives are way more likely to put our own spin on things in order to see more possibilities, and then have to use personal judgement to choose one on which to act.