I have really got to watch old BG again. I watched it *infinite* times throughout the 1980s.
"Where once I was Boomer-who, I now am Boomer-awesome."
Boomer was indeed awesome. I became very appreciative of his depression and crankiness in the last episode, when he spoke up about feeling left out.
"And yes, Adama is still as crazy as a shit house rat."
He was a religionist, but I don't think he was a complete lunatic. He probably was by the time of, o let me not speak this name, "Galactica: 1980" (he looked like a turbanless Ayatollah Khomeini at that point!), but... eh. I don't want to believe he was insane. Manic-depressive, yes, complete with glowing-eyed moments of religious inspiration...
"And as for the 1978 Battlestar's attitudes about women in uniform, Christ, where can I possibly start?"
That drove me nuts way back then and caused me to overcompensate by creating an overload of strong female characters (long before I realized that fandom doesn't *want* strong female characters because they're competition, oh well!). Unfortunately, that's the way a lot of people think to this day, that girlies should be submissive and sweet and stay in their place at home, and freedom to the extent of being allowed to serve to protect the people means that society has gone to hell. How... cute.
"It's a nice compliment, except that Adama takes it that one step further by hinting that it's her big selling point."
Heh, I never noticed that. Maybe because of his quiet "get over it" sort of reaction when Apollo was whining and moaning about women being allowed to fly. Yeah, he then got a look of "oh, sh*t" when he realized that Serina was on the flight list, but that was sort of an "Oops, I just ordered my son's fiancee into military service without noticing -- no wonder he's angry" moment.
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"Where once I was Boomer-who, I now am Boomer-awesome."
Boomer was indeed awesome. I became very appreciative of his depression and crankiness in the last episode, when he spoke up about feeling left out.
"And yes, Adama is still as crazy as a shit house rat."
He was a religionist, but I don't think he was a complete lunatic. He probably was by the time of, o let me not speak this name, "Galactica: 1980" (he looked like a turbanless Ayatollah Khomeini at that point!), but... eh. I don't want to believe he was insane. Manic-depressive, yes, complete with glowing-eyed moments of religious inspiration...
"And as for the 1978 Battlestar's attitudes about women in uniform, Christ, where can I possibly start?"
That drove me nuts way back then and caused me to overcompensate by creating an overload of strong female characters (long before I realized that fandom doesn't *want* strong female characters because they're competition, oh well!). Unfortunately, that's the way a lot of people think to this day, that girlies should be submissive and sweet and stay in their place at home, and freedom to the extent of being allowed to serve to protect the people means that society has gone to hell. How... cute.
"It's a nice compliment, except that Adama takes it that one step further by hinting that it's her big selling point."
Heh, I never noticed that. Maybe because of his quiet "get over it" sort of reaction when Apollo was whining and moaning about women being allowed to fly. Yeah, he then got a look of "oh, sh*t" when he realized that Serina was on the flight list, but that was sort of an "Oops, I just ordered my son's fiancee into military service without noticing -- no wonder he's angry" moment.