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To: Woahhs
"No one is saying PC is good, but you are justifying an opinion based on secondary information that doesn't quite square with the primary source for those who actually watched the thing.

Well now you have just managed to confuse the heck out of me, not that it takes much. My opinions are based on a pretty good source, the main outlet for Moore and Co. And since neither you nor I are capable of going back to Pre-Battlestar release days, what Moore says now is irrelevent, so we must rely on second hand knowledge as most of us do day to day.

People who watch the program for the first time have no Idea if it's PC or not. While some of the scenes may hint at it, I understand nothing is blatant PC, but I am not talking about watching, I am talking about knowing that Moore thinks the original series was sexist and then changing some of the main characters genders to fit that ideal.

I still say it's like the Libs tried to do to the original 9/11 flag raising men. You can't change facts, and fact is Starbuck was a Man not a Woman. If he wanted to do a good epic then he should have made this version a future to the original version. Not try to convince us that Starbuck somehow changed into a Woman overnight.

343 posted on 12/09/2003 2:36:24 PM PST by JustAnAmerican
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To: JustAnAmerican
What I'm trying to tell you is the writer made a creative decision, regardless of the stated reason, and it worked. If SciFi is about anything, it's about suspension of disbelief. You are refusing to suspend disbelief on the weight of pre-pub prattle rather than any failure of the writing or acting.

Hell. Who doesn't know Kira Nerys from DS9 was a literary male? It didn't detract from the entertainment value of the series though.

347 posted on 12/09/2003 2:48:25 PM PST by Woahhs
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To: JustAnAmerican
and fact is Starbuck was a Man not a Woman.

Not a fact, its fiction! Get real! Some PC is good, its bad when it goes overboard. The original show was sexist and campy, it needed to be toned down for todays audiance. IMO to be realistic all of the fighter's should be RPV's or robots. Second to that all or nearly all pilots should be women. Men cannot hold up to G forces as well, but our culture does not raise women who are intrested in flying fighters.

411 posted on 12/10/2003 6:42:02 AM PST by ItsTheMediaStupid
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