I think that the new Starbuck is very attractive but I felt that it was a strong nod to political correctness to have a woman in that role. I watched the first season of the show since I have always like Ed Olmos’ work but after the first season I really lost interest.
re: your second posted pic, should i say, “b-d-b-d-b-d,” or, “hubba hubba?”
To bad she doesn’t have any boobs. My wife is 60 and her boobs are a lot more fun than this skinny, flat chested broad.
I watched this show with anticipation for a total of 3 episodes. Three hours and I knew it was an anti-American, anti-man show.
The new BSG is interesting to me—not the show, but how people respond to it. On paper it seems like exactly the kind of thing I like. So I picked up the miniseries DVD and while there were moments I really liked—such as when the president gives the go-ahead for the ships with FTL to jump, leaving others behind to die—I was puzzled. Sure it was “dark” and some FX were good, but I didn’t much care for any of the characters.
I watched some of Season 1, half of Season 2, and while I again liked some of the FX, I STILL didn’t like the characters. Adama’s son is a wuss, Starbuck is yet another female character who is more macho than the men, etc.
I have Season 3 on loan, and haven’t moved to watch it. I think the reason is because despite claims to the contrary, I don’t think they are sticking to their original plan for the show. This is fine in itself—as you write shows and bring in other behind the scenes folks, things will change, get more complex and interesting—but in this case the whole thing seems kinda pointless.
I’ve read about the latest episodes, and that confirms my suspicions.
I wasn’t a fan of the original show, so I don’t have a dog in this fight. This one really does seem to be moving towards a “we’re all the same and have to get along with the terrorists, and really, isn’t a terrorist just a freedom fighter under another name?” finale. Or else, we find out they’re ALL Cylons, which would bring the pointlessness to a head.
Tricia Helfer is ridiculously pretty. Yes prettier than Sarah Palin.
I know I’m in the minority, but that woman looks like a transexual. Very boyish.
“orchiectomy”? I guess Dirk must have gotten a medical degree, though I can’t say I disagree with his take on things.
Sorry, Mr. Benedict, but while i enjoyed the Original back in the 70’s, it doesn’t stand up to today’s.
If they had waited until now to do it (instead of trying to cash in on the Star Wars craze), it might have been a different outcome.
Give me a Jason Bourne, or the old James Bond or Harry Callahan anyday!
At least it doesn't have a nauseating cutesy "Boxy" character, with a retarded "robot" chimpanzee pet.
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.
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#
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.
Once upon a time, in what used to be a far away land called Hollywood (but is now a state of mind and everywhere), a young actor was handed a script and asked to bring to life a character called Starbuck. I am that actorSo Dirk, Starbuck was your Marty Stu? "What a guy!"
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Fortunately, I was young, my imagination fertile and adrenal glands strong, because bringing Starbuck to life was over the dead imaginations of a lot of Network Executives. Every character trait I struggled to give him was met with vigorous resistance. A charming womanizer? The “Suits” (Network Executives) hated it. A cigar (fumerello) smoker? The Suits hated it. A reluctant hero who found humor in the bleakest of situations? The Suits hated it. All this negative feedback convinced me I was on the right track. br> ...
Starbuck was meant to be a lovable rogue br> ...
So we persevered, Starbuck and I. The show, as the saying goes, went on and the rest is history for, lo and behold, women from all over the world sent me boxes of cigars, phone numbers, dinner requests, and marriage proposals. br> ...
Starbuck was all charm and humor and flirting without an angry bone in his womanizing body
Sorry Face, as fracked up as she is, Kara Thrace is better than your fantasy