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[trinityvixen]

This is Battlestar Galactica-related. If you don't want to read it, feel free to comment on my shirt-buying needs or the fact that even women hate women in South Dakota.

After rewatching the season three premiere again with feiran last night, I realized she was yet another to express dislike for Cally. Why do people not like Cally? I can honestly say there isn't anyone on Battlestar Galactica that I dislike. I find things that people do alternately heroic and abhorrent (usually in the same episode), but I can't ever stay mad at them or stay in love with them.

Cally is, admittedly, a tad one-note on a show with serious depth to each and every character, but, honestly, I find her no better no worse than, say, someone like Jammer, who's doing the archetypal foot-in-both-worlds double- and triple-agent walk. What about Duck? The emotional wreck with nothing better to live for after the loss of his wife (contrast, to, say Kara, who lost Zak and yet kept on going, maybe not entirely healthily, but she didn't stop living when he did). Saying a character fills one purpose (in-bed-with-the-Devil Jammer again) doesn't mean they're dislikeable.

And the actress playing Cally isn't terrible. She's as good as any other minor on the show, at least. Why hate her? Why hate anyone on Battlestar Galactica? I mean, I haaaaaated Kat for the entire length of "Scar," and, yes, she still annoys me, but I confess I don't actually hate her. She's grown up a frakkin' lot since taking over as CAG, and she's gotten scarily competant (as opposed to hot-sticking it to Starbuck; it mirrors Starbuck's own ability to tame herself to a command position). If I had to pick someone I disliked anywhere near what some of y'all feel for Cally, Kat would take the brunt of that, and the Dee of second half of last season would get some, too, if only for being all up in Apollo's grill about dicking around on her while she was totally doing the same thing to poor Billy. I liked what scenes she had in the premiere because they showed her as tough and honest and not necessarily unloving for it. I admire that.

The shorter version of all that is that this is a poll: who can you say you honestly don't like on Battlestar Galactica? If you can name one, I'll be majorly impressed.

Comments

[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

I'm completely with you. I can't think of a single character on BSG that I hate. Sometimes their actions annoy me or I wish that the writers would give some type of consistent character development, but I at least like and mostly adore all the characters on the show.

Dee is possibly the closest to dislike from me and that's only because of 2.5. I loved her season one. She was absolutely fabulous until they decided to somehow make her fall in love with Lee.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They really took the cuteness out of Dee and made her into someone I didn't recognize. Dee's always been different, a bit softer but not a pushover, and she and Billy served as a nice counterpoint to the rest of the couples we saw who were obsessive (everyone+everyone), or dysfunctional (ditto), or not even all that nice to each other (thirded). It showed that not all convention had gone the way of the Colonies, while at the same time presenting a cute, believable relationship begun on simple flirtation that was free of all the baggage of the other relationships.

Then they ruined that by making it a melodramatic love triangle. Lee is obviously ambivalent about her at best, then suddenly they're together. I buy that from Starbuck--she's got the confidence and the libido to throw a nobody into bed and see where shit goes. Lee's too uptight, still, and he's a commitmentphobe (which is why his relationship to Starbuck is so messed up--it makes him commitment-crazed, and her commitmentphobic; any relationship that makes you act completely opposite from your normal isn't healthy, to say nothing of the rest of their history).

I also object to moving Dee into position as the XO on Pegasus. Talk about promoting anyone. I can't believe there weren't better candidates still on the ship. It's a contrivance, and it better generate more tension as Lee and Dee break down (they will, I guarantee it). Otherwise, I'll just be pissy because it's a promotion that makes no sense (moving Helo to Gaeta's position isn't a big jump, as he was an ECO to begin with, so he can coordinate stuff like Gaeta had to in CIC probably pretty easily--and he's even got the fussy thing going on like Gaeta did).

Don't hate Dee, especially since she didn't back down from Lee sulking in the premiere, but she comes as close as Kat for me to being someone actually unlikeably on this show.