Wow.

[thebitterguy]

You know, I'm no expert, no grad from a cultural studies program, but I'm pretty sure This Battlestar Galactica review is within spitting distance of crazy.

Anyone think there's any validitity to it? I mean, I don't really like the show that much, myself, but this review indicates some kind of issues. I will note they don't even mention the ugly pilot character.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I can understand that response. Early on, the gender stuff was a bit dodgy and the racial stuff was even worse (being largely problematic in the near total absence of any black characters). However, Dee have become a considerably more important character as the show went on (helping to improve both racial and gender problems) and in general, by the end of Season 1, they were doing vastly better wrt gender than they were at the beginning. Both Starbuck and Roslin were fairly problematic from a gender perspective at the start, but were notably better by the end of the season and have continued to improve. Watching president Roslin became an skilled and powerful leader is one of the triumphs of the show. Also, Starbuck's early mixture of obvious celibacy combined with her hard-drinking, loose-cannon fighter-pilot male stereotype was equally problematic, but has again greatly improved.

It is very much a post 2001 geek TV show, which means that the gender equality of shows like Xena, B-5, DS: 9, Buffy, and 2nd-4th season Angel is largely absent from TV. BSG isn't as good as any of these shows wrt gender, but it is also far better than most modern TV.