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I think some of youse guys [-n- gals] are being just a little too harsh on the PC aspect, especially with regards to the decision to cast Starbuck as a broad. Obviously that decision was made in part to satisfy the PC censors, but largely it was made because Katee Sackhoff is hot, hot, hot. And she's a broad in the classical sense of the term - huge, broad hips - but also in the modern of the term as well: Huge, broad shoulders. [Rack ain't half bad either, and seemed to be natural, although that's increasingly difficult to discern these days...] She's so athletic, in fact, that she looks like she's got some competitive swimming in her background [think Jenny Thompson, Mary T. Meagher or Janet Evans s/p puberty].

And Tricia Helfer as Evil Cylon Babe #6 is simply über-hot.

There's some excellent work on the male side as well; granted, Lee/Apollo was a little on the whiny side last night [and I wasn't thrilled about the fact that his Mom & Dad got divorced], but there was outstanding chemistry between Edward James Olmos, as Adama, and Michael Hogan, as his Number Two. [Hogan is the one who gets bitch-slapped by Lady Starbucks at the poker table, but it turns out he ain't the wuss you'd expect him to be.]

The jury will rule on Political Correctness with the conclusion this evening. The biggest dilemma is presented by Stands With A Fist Up Her Ass: Will she become an evil Marxist-Fascist-Cylon-Fifth-Columnist Hillary Clinton, or a take-no-prisoners, iron-maiden, I'm-straddling-you-in-your-wildest-fantasies Ann Coulter? I'm worried that they're pushing her towards the former, and that Olmos, Hagen, et al will degenerate into a bunch of Harold-Ickesish-Sidney-Blumenthalian-Rahm-Emanuelian girly men.

It will also be interesting to see what they do with the character of Baltar. He was a really slimy [Bill] Clintonesque philanderer in part one [although it's hard to blame him, given the quality of the chicks that were spreading for him last night]; we'll see whether he grows a spine in part two.

PS: For the record, the 9-11ish parallels are really striking. As you watch the Cylons nuking the human colonies, you get a strong sense of Homo Sapiens facing the very real possibility of extinction.

That's why it's so important that they make the correct decision tonight in re the development of Stands With A Fist Up Her Ass.

Oh, great - you just had to post a link to Tricia Helfer photos. Productivity just went way down...