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watching a small, controlled amount of voyager bc gf (x-treme tng expert) has never seen it and needs imo to learn about seven in advance of picard the show, and can i just say that it is more apparent to me than ever that every single thing that is good about the plot, writing, and thematics of battlestar galactica is 100% just ron moore’s screaming reaction against everything voyager is
Have you seen Caprica? It's a fascinating complement to BSG because its central thread is that fatherhood is fundamentally monstrous. BSG has a favorable view of Adama, father-figure of the fleet, but all the fathers in Caprica (including Adama's father) are constitutionally malignant.
this is from the other day when i was on about bsg and reproductive futurity. and it is interesting to me because while i have seen some of caprica, mostly because of a serious polly walker problem i was having at the time, it didn’t really sustain my interest and i don’t remember very much at all of the substance of it but this is very interesting! it’s basically a mob story right? i wonder if fatherhood in caprica is more malignant than is normal for mob stories?
That recent article about the women of angel makes me wonder if one day we'll get one for the women of battlestar galactica and how shoddy final season writing destroyed just about all of them
re the article about charisma carpenter, i’m not aware of anything at all like that going on behind the scenes on bsg but would be curious to know if i am missing something.
but this ask made me realize just how much i have to say about this and what it all boils down to is that this is a show very fundamentally about reproductive imperatives, a show that wholeheartedly embraces reproductive futurity as the sole end of human (and cylon) existence, and what that means is that in the end there are only two choices for female characters: reproduction or death. what happens to women throughout and especially at the end – the fates of starbuck and roslin and boomer and dualla and kat and for that matter racetrack not to mention several sixes and the entire three line – isn’t some weird deviation, it is the premise of the show from the very beginning. from adama’s first speech about fathers and sons and ‘we need to start having babies’, it is the premise of the show.
