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To: JustAnAmerican
If you enjoyed the show, then more power to you, but a lot of us refuse to follow the "PC is good" road.

...and a lot of us refuse to reflexively presume that anything with women in it is due to "PC".

To me it looked like the real motivation for the changes was to add more "eye-candy" to the primary cast, and to enhance the possibilities for sexual activity/tensions in the plot (as opposed to just "what shall we shoot today"). That's not only *not* PC, it borders on the polar opposite (sexism).

Besides, as someone else pointed out, the original (Dirk Benedict) Starbuck was practically a woman anyway. :-)

Another hint that the changes weren't due to a "PC" motive is the fact that there are no significant black roles in the new BG, despite the fact that there were at least three in the old one. That's not something that "PC" writers would do.

281 posted on 12/09/2003 11:53:58 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
Did you bother to actually read my post or did you just stop at the mention of PC and Woman? Just in case you were in a hurry, or just decided you wanted to be the devils advocate without brushing up on facts, here is the passage in post 219 you conveniently missed.

It was not about who was best for the job it was all about PC. There are no "What If's" here, the point is they used females in the spots that males were originally used because of PC. No more no less. All one has to do is search the Internet to find this out."

Where in that passage did you see anything about "My guess is?", Facts is the buzzword here. If watching the new BSG floats yer boat then by all means watch it, but please don't insist the show wasn't trying to be PC, there are too many facts that say otherwise including "Interviews" of the Producer about the show.

297 posted on 12/09/2003 12:46:58 PM PST by JustAnAmerican
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To: Ichneumon
Another hint that the changes weren't due to a "PC" motive is the fact that there are no significant black roles in the new BG, despite the fact that there were at least three in the old one. That's not something that "PC" writers would do.

Wasn't the 2nd in command of the original BSG a black guy? Where as the people in charge now seem to be all old white men. Even Edward James Olmos doesn't appear to be playing a hispanic character (His son is also lilly white also) The only blacks I've seen was the one who swore in the president and one that does nothing but hand the captain messages.

389 posted on 12/09/2003 6:15:29 PM PST by qam1 (@Starting Generation X Ping list - Freep me to be added and see my home page for details)
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