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Originally Posted by Zeke
Picture for a moment a Trek series as glutted with sex as BSG is. Can there be any doubt that it would be reviled as pandering to the lowest common denominator?
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Isn't that one of the common complaints about ENT, as your own link proved? It certainly pissed
me off that they made the ship's Vulcan into the Show's Babe.
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I guess all it takes to deal with sexuality is show everybody screwing and never look at the consequences; it's not like sex means anything, after all.
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::scratches head:: Okay, who's had sex on BSG? and what happened afterwards?
Chief and Boomer: in the context of a loving relationship. She was outed as a Cylon agent. She died.
Helo and Sharon: sort of in the context of a loving relationship. She's pregnant. Helo takes responsibility. Kid is born and must be coped with.
Kara and Lee, sort of: Aborted drunken tryst between friends.
Kara and her underwear model: eventually in the context of a relationship, as they get married.
Lee and Dee: eventually in the context of a loving relationship.
Chief and Cally: married, or at least partnered, and she's pregnant.
The Tighs: married. Very twisted relationship. Ellen sleeps around, and is one of the show's secondary villains.
Dee and Billy: dating.
Baltar: Complete and utter tramp, who will sleep with humans, Cylons, battered women, and chip-generated fantasies. Also the show's villain, a total scumbag and vile coward.
Six/Gina: Manipulating Cylons. Show's villains.
Did I miss anyone? As I'm seeing it, all the positive sex is more or less in healthy relationships between adults, and all the people who are running around screwing anyone are -- gasp! -- the bad guys, whom the show reviles. Kara is
not celebrated for her drunken grope of Lee.
You know what I
don't see? The endless goddamn soap opera they made of Trip and T'Pol. There's no will they/won't they, no coy withdrawals, no genital-teasing. The Siren
is a Siren, and acts like one. The officers are competent and dress appropriately for their duties.
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Moore is completely flying by the seat of his pants. The Cylons can do whatever's necessary for the plot because they're mysterious. Maybe "they have a plan," but no one has any idea what it is. And why should they? Their fans don't care.
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have you listened to the three-part writers' meeting podcasts? Maybe the writers don't know, but they are spending a lot of time thinking about it. They're not just churning ahead blindly. They acknowledge the corners they could paint themselves into. I don't mind that Moore doesn't have his plan worked out yet. The writers don't have a frakking clue what's going on on "Lost" either, and that show regularly makes the Top 10. (not that I watch it -- just making the analogy.)
I cheerfully acknowledge BSG's faults. Moore screws up his own continuity, and made an ENORMOUS error in having Roslin ban abortion. And it's NOT Trek; it doesn't celebrate the best we could be and hold it up as a goal. (and you cannot accuse me of not supporting Trek in general or ENT specifically, considering all the work I did on my support page over S3 and S4.) But I also recognize
good writing when I see it.