At least it doesn't have a nauseating cutesy "Boxy" character, with a retarded "robot" chimpanzee pet.
Posted on 02/26/2009 6:09:23 PM PST by GSP.FAN
Give me a Jason Bourne, or the old James Bond or Harry Callahan anyday!
FIrst of all, women like that are what? 1/10th of 1% of the entire population?
Second, it's been my experience that women like that tend to want to wear the penis in any relationship and while that's obviously ok with you, would never work with me.
Sexy? hmmmmm
I am right there in the escape pod with you.
You're entitled to your opinion, but I must say, any relationship with a woman like that just will not last . . .
At least it doesn't have a nauseating cutesy "Boxy" character, with a retarded "robot" chimpanzee pet.
It comes from Hollywood they have no idea of reality.
I loved Battlestar Galactica years ago when a Cylon was an evil robot and Starbuck was a guy.
I watcher the first season of the crapfest that the SciFi channel tried to sell us, hoping it would get better. It never did. Actually, except for the various Stargate series, The SciFi channel never actually puts on real SciFi. It has degenerated into the horror channel and not very good horror at that.
They haven’t had a single original scifi idea in years.
The writing and shows have gotten so bad that I don’t even watch anymore.
I wish there was actually a real scifi channel to tune to.
I love the new BSG - far better than the old one-dimensional BSG I loved in college.
The show is great - probably the best written program on television today.
And I like Starbuck as a woman. What? None of you have ever heard of women in combat?
Sounds like ol’ Dirk is pissed because he didn’t get a part in it like his co-star Richard Hatch.
And Hatch is good in this one - purely Machiavellian.
Love this show!
Dirk Benedict’s Starbuck was always an underrated, underappreciated performance especially alongside Richard Hatch playing his straight-arrow role to the hilt.
I hear many good things about the updated BG but a recasting of Starbuck would be tough to take...putting a woman in the role is more Star Trek-inspired diversity run amok.
Today, nearly every action flick has a “combat chick” who regularly and consistently tosses 250 lb men around like a human Travis the chimp. We are constantly informed as to how their is no real distinction between men and women in ANY arena, and the implication that there might be a differential ability for men and women in the arena of hand to hand combat is sexist and discriminatory.
I have always believed that EVERYONE should maximize their defense capability, and as a police insructor and National Guardsman, I instructed my fellow women Officers and soldiers in hand to hand combat. After 3 decades of doing this, and speaking to innumerable others in the field, I acknowledged a nearly universal truth that even well trained and fit women are often at a disadvantage against strong, even relatively untrained men. That is simply a reality, and no amount of political correctness will change that.
I say all this to note the tension between modern mores and our traditional notions of chivalry vis a vis women. Of course a savage attack like Chris Brown’s is verboten in any era (unless you are an Islamonazi) but a challenge over a lady’s honor strikes me as so quaint in an era of cultural marxism and radical feminism ascendent.
Starbuck, Hit it like a hammer ...She Nevah was a quitter ...Tasted like a raindrop. But politically correct? Not even close.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00MvN4npozw&feature=related#
I think you are missing the point,it is not about the tv show.
It is about Hollywood....
Ever see Laura Croft: Tomb Raider?
They send a dozen ninja veterans all armed to the teeth with uzi's and the usual ninja weaponry and she has a sword and a dagger or something like that.
Naturally she kicks all their asses in 10 mins, not even breaking a sweat.
TOtal drivel.
The searchy thing works but it’s easy to overlook things. I post at least one duplicate thread per week, as the admin moderators can verify.
While I appreciate your point of view (though I don’t agree with it), and think you’re right about Hatch and the sour grapes from Benedict, I can’t agree that this show is well-written. I saw the RAZOR movie and couldn’t believe the ending—how many times are we gonna see the “The bomb’s okay but the timer is broken—SOMEONE’s gonna have to stay behind!” thing?
Similarly, the shows that I’ve seen show a lot of cliches in new settings—is a cliche no longer a cliche just because it happens to a woman instead of a man, or in space instead of in a western saloon?
I think the show is trendily bleak, but the writing, while complex, doesn’t really go anywhere, imho.
It should be pointed out that Dirk wrote and published this article in *2004*. It be old.
The show was an admitted Bush/WOT bash in the third season, and I have always thought it was bleak and joyless. I don’t know why I still watch, but I think it’s way overrated. And, Kara Thrace is hideous and nasty.
I recently asked my teenaged daughter if she realized that all the shows she watched portrayed adult men as being idiots.
She was not amused.
yeah and if you oppose Obama on any policy point you are RACIST; yeah right-the libs can go away and leave me alone!
Yup. You're right.
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