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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]

Heh, Hot Dog tending bar. I could believe that. He's got a mug for a bartender. He just looks beleagured. I heard he was dead, though, and I've been trying to confirm. Maybe he was killed off in the webisodes?

[smartylibrarian.livejournal.com]

I don't know! I was a bad fan and didn't watch all of the webisodes. I'll have to read the TWoP recap.

I hope he's not dead. He was such great comic relief. Remember when he was in the shooting range with Starbuck and Apollo and they started losing oxygen? That was awesome.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Totally. He just had the best serious-comic face because you weren't sure which it was half the time. In "Scar" he just sort of sat and listened to the new guys making asses of themselves and you thought he might be amused, but then he slapped a dead pilot's name tag over on one of the soon-to-be-dead ones and liek whoa.

Ah, I need to watch the webisodes, too. I mean Jacob will do a good job recapping, but 9/10s of the scenes on this show are sold by the acting, and I'm betting as good as a recap is, it won't hold a candle to the scenes themselves. Gotta get on that.