I survived "Battlestar Galactica (2003)"
including:
- The White Trash Bitch from Hell ™, Kara Thrace, who laughs like a demented hyena and fucks anything that doesn't manage to get away first;
- The Pussywhipped President's Bitch ™, Lee Adama, who got his job either by rolling over for his superior or by begging Daddy for a job;
- The Woe Me Non-Caucasian Quota Bitch from Hell ™, Sharon Valerii, who has no character but an endless supply of tragic looks and teary-eyed suffering;
- The Unbeatable Would-Be Dictator Bitch ™, William Adama, who's perfect in everything save knowledge of human nature and combat tactics;
- The Soaked in Alcohol Pseudo Hardass Bitch ™, Paul Tigh, who won his commission in a lottery and shouldn't be XO of a Battlestar if he cannot even command himself;
- The Former Schoolteacher Turned Messiah Bitch ™, Laura Roslin, who should try to find a copy of the Colonies' Bill of Rights and actually read it;
- The Cylon Peroxide Bitch From Hell ™, Number Six, who lives to present her "assets" to the camera and exists only to show off the most recent fashion from "Victoria's Secret";
- The Would-Be Hardcore Porno Bitch ™, Gaius Baltar, whose genius-level IQ is conspicuously absent but whose mental sexcapades bore us all to death.
Go me!
- Mood:
cynical - Music:"Things will never be the same" - Roxette


Comments
Like whom? The only one I distinctly remember is Baltar. And even if she did that, why would it be a problem? Because that would be something they took from the old show. Dirk Benedict's Starbuck hit on or slept with half the Fleet over the course of the show.
Lee Adama, who got his job either by rolling over for his superior or by begging Daddy for a job;
Again, why exactly? It is true that Apollo never is as good in flying like Starbuck. But there is a reason why he is still the superior officer: He is calm and he thinks things through. He is also almost exactly like Richard Hatch's Apollo.
The Woe Me Non-Caucasian Quota Bitch from Hell ™, Sharon Valerii, who has no character but an endless supply of tragic looks and teary-eyed suffering;
...just like her counterpart in the original series.
The Unbeatable Would-Be Dictator Bitch ™, William Adama, who's perfect in everything save knowledge of human nature and combat tactics;
He is a soldier and a good one. He is also an old soldier. Meaning, he just does things a lot differently, which is why he was supposed to retire with his ship by the beginning of the show.
And him trying to rule over the President? At least they are trying to put that President vs. Military into the show and actually make it a real problem. Remember the old show? Where Adama was the hero and that 12-person council consisted of bitches and idiots Adama had to deal with all the time even though they had no idea about anything? In the new show it's not just President vs. Military, sometimes it's also President and Military against Democracy. That's the whole point in that storyline: To show all the problems that could arise in a situation like that.
The Soaked in Alcohol Pseudo Hardass Bitch ™, Paul Tigh, who won his commission in a lottery and shouldn't be XO of a Battlestar if he cannot even command himself;
and he probably wouldn't be if Adama wouldn't still trust him and consider him his friend and they wouldn't be the only Battlestar left of the Fleet.
Again: The ship was on its way into retirement when the Cylons attacked. I don't really get the problem.
The Former Schoolteacher Turned Messiah Bitch ™, Laura Roslin, who should try to find a copy of the Colonies' Bill of Rights and actually read it;
As I wrote before: That's the point. To show how those people try to save themselves but at one point start to work against Democracy to do it. That's not a nice thing to do, but it's very believable.
What about her and Baltar? And the way she's pulling him onto their side and makes him crazy?
I'm not saying that I wasn't annoyed by the repeating sex scene between her and Baltar by the end of the show. But she still had a place in this all. And a very meaningful.
The Would-Be Hardcore Porno Bitch ™, Gaius Baltar, whose genius-level IQ is conspicuously absent but whose mental sexcapades bore us all to death.
Except of that I like to see him deteriorating more and more into craziness and I expect him to try to lead the Fleet into extinction by season 2...
Personally, I see the show as something like the Second Coming of Science Fiction. Maybe one of the best Sci-Fi shows ever and most critics seem to agree with me (and this is even though I had my doubts as well if this could work at all).
I do get that not everybody can share that view. But I also know that it is utterly impossible to even enjoy a show a bit if you start watching it with the disctinct need to hate it.