BSG ponderings (no spoilers)
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woodfaceIt highly amuses me that some of the male BSG audience seem to feel threatened by the strong female characters in their show. OMG! A female president! This of course is probably a more american reaction as it will take another century or so before the US will have a woman as president (let alone a black woman, and gay is even further away). So yes, it highly amuses and entertains me when another viewer goes on a tantrum how the male characters in the series are weak and the woman are strong. That is, it amuses me when it doesn't annoy me to no end. Just shows how fixated they must be on the issue and how little attention they are paying to the series.
All characters in BSG seem to equally have their strengths and flaws no matter what their gender. This is half of what I truly love about the show. No one is holding out a gender card. Heh, the only one who does seem to be the weak character is Gaius and that's partly because he tends to see women as sexobjects (mind you, only a small part). I find that the only show that does slightly compare to this is Farscape where the Peacekeepers seem to have equality among genders as well. But then they deny all emotions, so that's not very good either. Either way, it's funny how part of the male audience feels insecure because the women have as much balls as the men. Poor them.
On another note, I was wondering about the Cylons. Is it possible that whoever programmed them made them so that they believe in the gods? I was playing with the idea that the Cylons could have been programmed to be religious and that this programming is actually what caused their rebellion. Imagine being a Cylon and being faced with a religion that tells you that all men were made by god. Religion gives purpose to a human's life and explains the origins of it. Only, these Cylons would be faced with the fact that they were made by the humans and not by the gods. Slight snag here because their purpose would be to serve the humans and the sacred scrolls do not give Cylons a soul but only the humans. Identity crisis much? So they leave the humans and come back convince that there is only one God who meant for them to take the humans place. They find a way to say "we do have a purpose and its larger than just serving you and yes, in fact, we do have a soul and not a program".
All characters in BSG seem to equally have their strengths and flaws no matter what their gender. This is half of what I truly love about the show. No one is holding out a gender card. Heh, the only one who does seem to be the weak character is Gaius and that's partly because he tends to see women as sexobjects (mind you, only a small part). I find that the only show that does slightly compare to this is Farscape where the Peacekeepers seem to have equality among genders as well. But then they deny all emotions, so that's not very good either. Either way, it's funny how part of the male audience feels insecure because the women have as much balls as the men. Poor them.
On another note, I was wondering about the Cylons. Is it possible that whoever programmed them made them so that they believe in the gods? I was playing with the idea that the Cylons could have been programmed to be religious and that this programming is actually what caused their rebellion. Imagine being a Cylon and being faced with a religion that tells you that all men were made by god. Religion gives purpose to a human's life and explains the origins of it. Only, these Cylons would be faced with the fact that they were made by the humans and not by the gods. Slight snag here because their purpose would be to serve the humans and the sacred scrolls do not give Cylons a soul but only the humans. Identity crisis much? So they leave the humans and come back convince that there is only one God who meant for them to take the humans place. They find a way to say "we do have a purpose and its larger than just serving you and yes, in fact, we do have a soul and not a program".
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:31 pm (UTC)I don't see her making any contribution that any other guy couldn't have made. Just because she might've had some sort of extra-military relationship with Zak, doesn't really improve or enhance the storyline, in any way, shape or form. If Starbuck had remained male, they still could've been best friends, and the storyline wouldn't have been essentially changed. As for her acting, it doesn't stand out as being anything bad, in the fact that she very effectively conveys a cocky, arrogant idiot that really doesn't have any place in any military organization, aside from a Navy-analog (which has notoriously loose and lax discipline, regardless of anything they may say), which is nothing close to the Army or Marine Corps in terms of respect and discipline.
Right. I don't think that need any comments. I also keep wondering why those fans of TOS keep trying to cling to it and somehow insist on watching TNS even if they keep getting annoyed at everything.
You know, I think this is possible. It may be Moore's way of playing with the "god gene" kind of theory.
I really can't wait to find out more about the Cylons and the religion part. Scifi has been pondering about AI for a while now and the idea that they would rebel isn't all that new. Letting the Cylons rebel over religion however is not something I remember seeing before. Which someone reminds me to Space Above and Beyond where the AI's rebelled over the mere sentence of "Take a chance".