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To: GonzoGOP
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)(she's a #3), 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.

Since these Cylon women are/were essentially immortal as they are/were capable of downloading their conscience into a new body on the resurrection hubs, can their actions truly be defined as suicide?

Roslin: Contemplates killing herself due to cancer suffering, but is pulled back at the last second.

Roslin, like many cancer patients, and other terminally ill patients, contemplates ending her existence to end her suffering. That she didn't is a testimony of the spirit to want to live,

Cain: Stands there passively while her lesbo-cylon girlfriend blows her brains out.

Cain was a pathological b*tch, and re. her girlfriend, see comment about Cylons above.

Dee: 9mm Divorce.

As poster dilvish noted in another post, Dee suffered from chronic depression, and while suicide can be devastating and unexpected, the possibility can not, and should not, be ignored in the chronically depressed.

Ellen Tigh: Drinks poison (Possible murder) and blows up a planet with herself on it.

I think Ellen was killed, but after last weeks big reveal, we can't even be sure of her current status.

Cally: Trys to flush herself out an airlock with her kid, Cylon saves the kid, then flushes Cally.

Cally had just discovered she had mated with a Cylon skinjob and had had a child by him. She was confused and distraught and wasn't thinking at that point, just reacting. Cally didn't commit suicide, she was murdered by Torie(sp).

Given my reasoning above, I would have to disagree with your assertion that Dee was just trying to be one of the girls. But, I can understand your point as well because women in sci-fi/comic book material are never treated as real people. They are either lionized, ala the Wonder Woman syndrome, or victimized as seen on the website Women in Refrigerators.

135 posted on 01/20/2009 11:31:36 AM PST by Surtur
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To: Surtur
I'm not saying that there were not reasons for some of these given the plot line. Just that there seems to be an entire Suicide is Painless mantra going on with the writers of BSG 2.0. Your husband isn't who you thought he was, solution kill yourself. If you have a terminal illness, solution kill yourself. Romantic problem, kill your partner, then kill yourself. If you want to find out the face of god, solution kill yourself. If your CO doesn't agree with your suggested course of action, solution, crash into a planet and kill yourself. If you have had a hard life and been beaten up, Give a Nuke a big hug and kill yourself. Your dream guy is a metrosexual who doesn't love you the way he once did, and your dream home turns out to be a nuked out wasteland, solution kill yourself.

If they had done it once I wouldn't have a problem. It is just that they never seem to come up with any other solutions. If the character is female, they kill themselves. If the character is male, the crawl into a bottle and have a good cry. If they had
152 posted on 01/20/2009 12:24:45 PM PST by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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