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nu-Galactica
Aug. 20th, 2005 04:21 pmI feel the need to watch this again before commenting in any depth, especially about Edward James Olmos's performance as Adama. I didn't "get" a great deal of it toward the end, and need to sort some stuff out.
I will say this, though: Richard Hatch is doing a much better job acting this time around than he did in the first version. Not just because ethically murky characters are more interesting than designated heroes, but because he's understated more than not. He's nuancing this in ways that are hard to express. I think his character is a complete whackjob in the service of communism's worst excesses, but at least he's three dimensional about it.
( I will say this about Kara Thrace, though. )
I will say this, though: Richard Hatch is doing a much better job acting this time around than he did in the first version. Not just because ethically murky characters are more interesting than designated heroes, but because he's understated more than not. He's nuancing this in ways that are hard to express. I think his character is a complete whackjob in the service of communism's worst excesses, but at least he's three dimensional about it.
( I will say this about Kara Thrace, though. )
So...slash on nu-Galactica?
Jul. 27th, 2005 10:06 pmCommenting on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meyerlemon's lj in a thread concerning the "implosion" of BSG fandom and given a number of Kara/Lee shipper factions to join, I commented that I could get all radical and divisive about the lack of slash options, but...
...there aren't any slash pairings that interest me.
I will admit right here that an unreasonable yet unshakable belief that the PTB made Starbuck a girl to Stop Slash Before It Happens was a contributing factor to my boycott of nu-Galactica. I'm not proud of it, I don't really believe it had anything to do with anything beyond Make Ship Happen because that's screenable and slash isn't in genre TV, but there it was. I can honestly say I'm watching the show for reasons other than slash or shipability at this point and devoutly hope never to see either of them at this point.
That said...are my slash specs broken? Am I missing a really cool slash vibe on Battlestar Galactica?
note: all I've ever seen is a wholly unloving vibe suggestive that Baltar would enthusiastically exploit Gaeta's hero worship and a femslashy Thrace/Roslyn thing that had more to do with Kara's disillusionment with the Old Man. Other than those, nu-Galactica has sorted out the character interaction insuspiciously slash-unfriendly ways.
meyerlemon's lj in a thread concerning the "implosion" of BSG fandom and given a number of Kara/Lee shipper factions to join, I commented that I could get all radical and divisive about the lack of slash options, but......there aren't any slash pairings that interest me.
I will admit right here that an unreasonable yet unshakable belief that the PTB made Starbuck a girl to Stop Slash Before It Happens was a contributing factor to my boycott of nu-Galactica. I'm not proud of it, I don't really believe it had anything to do with anything beyond Make Ship Happen because that's screenable and slash isn't in genre TV, but there it was. I can honestly say I'm watching the show for reasons other than slash or shipability at this point and devoutly hope never to see either of them at this point.
That said...are my slash specs broken? Am I missing a really cool slash vibe on Battlestar Galactica?
note: all I've ever seen is a wholly unloving vibe suggestive that Baltar would enthusiastically exploit Gaeta's hero worship and a femslashy Thrace/Roslyn thing that had more to do with Kara's disillusionment with the Old Man. Other than those, nu-Galactica has sorted out the character interaction in
nuGalactica
Jul. 23rd, 2005 12:31 amI'm almost to the point where I'm ready to drop the "nu," but not quite. It's not really Galactica as I know it, but it is a really good adventure as long as they stay out of the 90210 zip code.
( Spoilers for the ep whose name I'm too tired and too in love with SGA to remember )
( Spoilers for the ep whose name I'm too tired and too in love with SGA to remember )
