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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

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think one of the best scenes in last season was the Chief calmly deciding in jail and telling Helo that he gave up on Sharon. Okay, so he probably thought he was going to be executed, but I like that he came to the decision, made it in an unemotional way (so not in the heat of any particular moment), and stuck to it. He seemed so over it, really, truly over it, that when the season finale came along, I was shocked to think he wasn't (but I could believe he was still harboring doubt and guilt as a result because some part of him understood, as no one else except GalacticaSharon did, that she had no idea what she'd done).

And yay for Ellen Tigh. Favorite Ellen Tigh bit? When the lady who demanded Adama hand over CapricaSharon took over the bar, and Lee tried to sneak away, taking Ellen with him and she totally went, even though she thought he was taking her into the bathroom for hanky panky. Loved it. I love the assumption that when we don't see her, she's off catting it up, and that's okay with everyone. It's just Ellen.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I still love when she RAMS her high-heel into Lee's crotch.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: I think she'd slipped the shoe off, actually, and was giving him the full foot rub to the balls. His reactions are priceless.