Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Lt. Starbuck … Lost In Castration.
Big Hollywood ^ | January 19, 2009 | Dirk Benedict

Posted on 01/20/2009 8:30:14 AM PST by EveningStar

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 actor. The script was called “Battlestar Galactica.”

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...

Witness the “re-imagined” “Battlestar Galactica,” bleak, miserable, despairing, angry and confused. Which is to say, it reflects in microcosm the complete change in the politics and morality of today’s world, as opposed to the world of yesterday. The world of Lorne Greene (Adama), Fred Astaire (Starbuck’s Poppa) and Dirk Benedict (Starbuck). I would guess Lorne is glad he’s in that Big Bonanza in the sky and well out of it. Starbuck, alas, has not been so lucky. He’s not been left to pass quietly into that trivial world of cancelled TV characters...

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: battlestargalactica; bighollywood; dirkbenedict; feminism; hollywood; liberalism; marenjensen; starbuck
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 281 next last
To: EveningStar

I have to agree with Dirk, the New Galactica sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks. I turn it on each week and I’ve never made it through the full 60 minutes of the show. I keep hoping for it to get better, but it never does. And so a half hour into each episode I turn to the Discovery Channel or something else with more appeal like the Golf Channel.
I really miss well written entertaining programs.


81 posted on 01/20/2009 9:40:09 AM PST by BuffaloJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fr_freak
They even had an episode where the humans had the perfect opportunity to wipe out all the Cylons at once by use of some kind of virus, but one of the wussy male pilots decided that we just didn't "have the right to arbitrarily wipe out a whole species".

Halo is no wimp- he survived for months, on his own, on post-holocaust Caprica. He had given up his seat on an evacuation shutte so civilians could flee. His refusal to commit genocide is an important point in the series- it's turning out that the cycle of near-genocide has been going on for thousands of years. Halo took the moral stand that the cycle has to end somewhere.

Never mind the fact that the Cylons tried to do exactly that to humans and were almost successful and never mind that the Cylons are freaking machines.

Which was kind of the point of the episode. Does any species have the right to commit genocide on another sentient species?

82 posted on 01/20/2009 9:40:10 AM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: Borges

Find books written before 1965 to get a perspective of the change for the bad.


83 posted on 01/20/2009 9:40:42 AM PST by donna (Synonyms: Feminism, Communism, Fascism, Socialism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: GOPsterinMA

Maren Jensen had to retire from show business due to health problems involving fatigue. Sad for those of us who were fans of this amazingly gorgeous Danish Hawaiian actress but probably good for her life to not spend it in Hollyweird. I hope she’s happy whatever she’s doing now.


84 posted on 01/20/2009 9:41:14 AM PST by ReformationFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: GOPsterinMA
I think the cheesy-ness of the original gave it it’s charm, IMO.

The old version was cheesy, but fun. Really the same plot for every show. Baltar in the old series was always sitting on his throne in the base star plotting the destruction of Galactica.

When they started the new series, I had my doubts as to what they could possibly do with BSG. However, having the human-looking cylons brings a brilliant bit of paranoia to the series.

85 posted on 01/20/2009 9:42:58 AM PST by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies]

To: Domandred

Hatch sweated and slaved to bring Galactica back, the old Galactica, as a “30 years plus” show. He did a comic book series, he produced a fan-driven pilot movie to try and interest Hollywood in doing the show, but Glen Larson (am I right?) still held the rights to the series. Hatch was thrown a bone after keeping the show alive for thirty years, and even then they wanted no part of the Galactica he sought to build.


86 posted on 01/20/2009 9:43:10 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: donna

I’ve read quite a few books written before 1965. Whatever changes there have been are too complex to just write off as PC. Ever read 1880-1940 stuff? It’s a lot more economically liberal than most stuff today.


87 posted on 01/20/2009 9:43:46 AM PST by Borges
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 83 | View Replies]

To: junta
Whats up with Dee?

Er... After last week's episode, let's just say she's not going to make it to Earth.

88 posted on 01/20/2009 9:44:14 AM PST by Citizen Blade ("A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy" -Benjamin Disraeli)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: junta
Whats up with Dee? Any chick I would want to start the human race with it would be her.

In a move completely out of left field, Dee committed suicide by blowing her brains out last Friday night in the mid-season return episode.

89 posted on 01/20/2009 9:44:45 AM PST by Surtur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: puffer
Star Trek Voyager- woman in charge, metrosexual American Indian is #2

I am a Christian. Roddenberry showed a chapel ONCE in TOS, hey I can live with that...his original vision of the future was one where our God (and the human invented ones) weren't a big part of their universe. But by the time Voyager comes around, they've got big chunks of major plotlines using "spirit guides" (which would read "demons" to some of my faith) and the female captain is going all gooey about how cool it is. ROWLS.

90 posted on 01/20/2009 9:47:07 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: puffer
Star Trek Voyager- woman in charge, metrosexual American Indian is #2

I am a Christian. Roddenberry showed a chapel ONCE in TOS, hey I can live with that...his original vision of the future was one where our God (and the human invented ones) weren't a big part of their universe. But by the time Voyager comes around, they've got big chunks of major plotlines using "spirit guides" (which would read "demons" to some of my faith) and the female captain is going all gooey about how cool it is. ROWLS.

91 posted on 01/20/2009 9:47:23 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin
Exactly what the bleak and despairing current BSG lacks and needs but can and will never have. This is exactly what SPACE:1999 suffered from in the first season...a bleak and hopeless future with very little humanity. They retooled for a more upbeat second season.
92 posted on 01/20/2009 9:50:34 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Surtur

Not completely out of left field. We knew all the way back in first season that Dee was seriously depressed, the last time she spoke to her family was an argument over whether she should join the military, and she had a lot of regrets about that (remember the “military tribute” episode). Then Billy dies, and her rebound relationship with Apollo turns out to be a rebound relationship, and then Earth, they’re one big source of hope, winds up being a burnt out husk. All that depression from first season came crashing back on her, she had a nice date with Apollo and decided to go out happy.

BSG, like all good arc TV shows, is all about small clues. If you remember Dee discussing how she wound up on the Galactica her arc right up to putting the bullet in her head makes sense. But you often times have to remember 2 lines of dialog from a 60 second scene 40+ episodes ago.


93 posted on 01/20/2009 9:51:31 AM PST by dilvish
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: GunsAndBibles

Yet you feel the need to comment on threads about popular culture. Interesting.


94 posted on 01/20/2009 9:51:56 AM PST by Doohickey (The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: GunsAndBibles

The real problem is the lack of risk taking and creativity in Hollywood today. Special effects have replaced stories that could well be written by computers. The use of sex to carry a show is a symptom of our age. (The Baywatch syndrome). I have hope that real men will win out in the end. Maybe the new Star Trek movie will start a new trend. We can but hope. Starbuck was right about a great many things in his article and there is bitterness there as well.


95 posted on 01/20/2009 9:52:53 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: junta
Whats up with Dee?

Nothing any more--she blew her brains out in the middle of last week's episode.
96 posted on 01/20/2009 9:53:02 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus
Two words: Robin Hood.

In the remake a few years ago, Robin was a clueless lackluster doofus. Moran Freemen (great actor, but not a white saxon from the Middle Ages by any means) played a "Moorish" black Muslim clad in Arab robes who was smarter and more scientificly learned than any of Robin's regular men. Thanks Hollywood.

97 posted on 01/20/2009 9:54:37 AM PST by 50sDad (WARNING: This thread may result in several billion posts.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: 50sDad

Roddenberry showed a Chapel many times in the original series. Heck, he even wound up marrying her.....


98 posted on 01/20/2009 9:54:46 AM PST by tarawa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 90 | View Replies]

To: Surtur
In a move completely out of left field, Dee committed suicide by blowing her brains out last Friday night in the mid-season return episode.

Nope just trying to be one of the girls. #6: Hugs a nuke and set it off (Gotta give her points for style)
Lucy Lawless: (Can't remember her number), Kills herself over and over again do find out who the final five are.
#8/Athena: Blows her brains out in order be reincarnated on board the cylon mother ship.
Roslin: Contemplates killing herself due to cancer suffering, but is pulled back at the last second.
Cain: Stands there passively while her lesbo-cylon girlfriend blows her brains out.
Dee: 9mm Divorce.
Ellen Tigh: Drinks poison (Possible murder) and blows up a planet with herself on it.
Cally: Trys to flush herself out an airlock with her kid, Cylon saves the kid, then flushes Cally.

They should change the theme song to the theme from M*A*S*H.
99 posted on 01/20/2009 9:56:52 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: GonzoGOP
Oh and lest I forget Starbuck deliberately crashes her ship into a gas giant.
100 posted on 01/20/2009 9:58:15 AM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120 ... 281 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson