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What's in a number?
Oct. 8th, 2006 08:25 pm( Cylon counting game: 1, 2, skip a few, 11, 12 (spoilers through 3.1, though vague). )
Listening to the commentary on the miniseries (HOLY GODS, EVERYONE LOOKS SO MUCH YOUNGER IN THE MINISERIES), it's fun to learn what they thought would and wouldn't work, what would shock, etc. I love how unapologetically sexual they made it, and that they decided to not to it the typical way (i.e. innuendo only, cheesy costumes, love-slave sexual surrogates a la Kirk et al). Also, from reading some feminist blogs complaining about the portrayal of sex in fictional, televised/filmed works, it's fun to see them start the very first romantic encounters with two woman-dominant pairings: Six, who, duh is in charge always but who, specifically, in her liason with Baltar is the one to throw him on the bed and is on top to boot; and Sharon, who is shoving the Chief around and is his actual superior aboard Galactica. It's keen, and it gives me heart as the relationships portrayed are not made out to be shallow or the men involved unmanly just because the women involved push back just as hard. It almost forgives the artifact of a patriarchal society that married couples have, so far 100% of the time, adopted the man's last name (almost--if Gaius ever married six, we all know he'd be Mr. Gaius Six).
And I didn't remember Lee being a total dickweed to Tyrol when he came onboard. Dick.
Listening to the commentary on the miniseries (HOLY GODS, EVERYONE LOOKS SO MUCH YOUNGER IN THE MINISERIES), it's fun to learn what they thought would and wouldn't work, what would shock, etc. I love how unapologetically sexual they made it, and that they decided to not to it the typical way (i.e. innuendo only, cheesy costumes, love-slave sexual surrogates a la Kirk et al). Also, from reading some feminist blogs complaining about the portrayal of sex in fictional, televised/filmed works, it's fun to see them start the very first romantic encounters with two woman-dominant pairings: Six, who, duh is in charge always but who, specifically, in her liason with Baltar is the one to throw him on the bed and is on top to boot; and Sharon, who is shoving the Chief around and is his actual superior aboard Galactica. It's keen, and it gives me heart as the relationships portrayed are not made out to be shallow or the men involved unmanly just because the women involved push back just as hard. It almost forgives the artifact of a patriarchal society that married couples have, so far 100% of the time, adopted the man's last name (almost--if Gaius ever married six, we all know he'd be Mr. Gaius Six).
And I didn't remember Lee being a total dickweed to Tyrol when he came onboard. Dick.
