I stopped watching BSG after Lee discovered the underground market catered to pedophiles and allowed the market to continue without launching every single monster who raped a child out the airlock first. BSG was sold as a Feminist show with Strong Female Characters but it was so misogynistic. The amount of violence the female characters underwent - the beatings, the rapes, forced prostitution, forced births, the mind games - most of it gratuitous, proved to me that Moore was another Whedon.
Meh... Can't say I recommend it, but I also have a mean completionist streak. Just don't expect everything (or indeed, anything) to be wrapped up near and tidy.
Really like your identifying projection and displacement as part of colonial psychology.
People tend to do what they are supported to do, and these primitive defenses can be very powerful on a mass scale, as Trump is attempting to do now.
Glad you saved this piece from the past!
I stopped watching BSG after Lee discovered the underground market catered to pedophiles and allowed the market to continue without launching every single monster who raped a child out the airlock first. BSG was sold as a Feminist show with Strong Female Characters but it was so misogynistic. The amount of violence the female characters underwent - the beatings, the rapes, forced prostitution, forced births, the mind games - most of it gratuitous, proved to me that Moore was another Whedon.
I'm intensely ambivalent about the apparent exclusion of "The Plan" from this analysis ...
hah; well this is what happens when you don't end up seeing the whole thing. I watched a few seasons and felt things really went off the rails...
Things really did. I developed a deathly fear of writers' strikes.
I’m watching that now! I hadn’t realized it existed before well, this week. I looooove Battlestar Galactica so am intrigued.
Meh... Can't say I recommend it, but I also have a mean completionist streak. Just don't expect everything (or indeed, anything) to be wrapped up near and tidy.