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shipperxI never did get around to posting about last week's BSG premiere. And now that this week's follow-up episode is on, let me reiterate my sentiments from last week.
Starbuck, get a cross and hang yourself already. Please! Just, for the love of the gods, stop annoying the shit out of me!
During the original mini-series I really liked Starbuck, but in the years since she has grown (or, rather, not grown) to annoy me. And it's weird that she is my obstacle to embracing BSG, because it's not like I love any of the characters on BSG. Nor do I feel that I need to love any of the characters. Sometimes the utterly frakked up are the most interesting. (Yeah, Baltar falls into this category. He isn't the least bit likeable, but damn if he isn't a a trainwreck that's difficult not to watch.) So my problem with Starbuck isn't the likeability quotient. I don't find her likable, but that's not even the issue. And god knows she's a trainwreck. Added to that, the actress isn't half bad. It's just...Kara Thrace is a damn SPOILED BRAT!
My current problem with Starbuck and why she's annoying the shit out of me is her self-righteous "I'm not a Cylon!" hissy-fits. Okay, so she most probably isn't a Cylon, but how in the frakking hell is she so certain of that? It's not like the other stealth-Cylons knew that they were Cylons.
Actually, it's not even her own denial that's the problem. Denial I get. I certainly understood Tigh's reaction to his discovery that he's a Cylon. And I sympathized with Boomer hiding her Cylon nature. What chaps me is Starbuck's narcissistic inability to ever see anyone else's point of view, particularly her inability to give anyone else any credit. There are good, valid reasons why everyone is wary of her! She gets on a self-righteous high horse about how everyone is just supposed to "know" that she isn't a Cylon. Right, because all the factors of her miraculous return from the dead should just be overlooked because she's so damn special. When she was having her bitch-fit at Roslin about all her "sacrifices"... damnit, as if every other character on the whole damn show hasn't made sacrifices. Really, Kara, just you? Only you? No one else? Athena lost her frakking child for a year!
But that's Kara. Never bother with anyone else's feelings. It's part of why I found the whole love quadrangle of DOOM such a show destroyer last year. Guess what? I don't care who's frakking Starbuck. I don't understand why either of the men she's involved with continually forgiveher bullshit. It's really not forgivable bullshit.
And it's not that I think Anders was the poor wronged one last week when she said that if she discovered that he was a Cylon she'd kill him, just after he said that even if she is a Cylon he'd love her. Part of his vow to love her despite being a Cylon was based on his own discovery that he is a Cylon and thus he vowed to Kara what he wished she'd vow to him. (Yeah, good luck with that one, cowboy, this is Starbuck we're talking about. The world revolves around Starbuck... and not in the almost amusingly off-the-wall, psychedelic batshit Baltar kind of way. Just in a total narcissistic kind of way.) And Lee... well, he was better off in the government working with Roslin than he ever has been mired in Starbuck's 'romantic' hell. I frakking hate the Quad of Doom. Every damn bit of it. All of it. Everything. I don't want any more of it. It sucks in so, so many ways.
Okay, having bitched about Starbuck more than enough (did I mention that she annoys me?) I continue to enjoy all versions of Six. Cylon she may be, but she's always interesting to try to figure out. (Though I think allowing the Centurian's freedom may well be a very, very bad move.) And I enjoy Tigh's quandry. Being the uber-Cylon hater that he is, to discover he is one? Damn. Knowing how devoted he is to the fleet (and having killed his wife for helping Cylons) he's due for an existential meltdown... that he won't allow himself to have because he's not built that way. Roslin, Athena, and Helo are as close to character-love as I can get with BSG where I tend to remain somewhat cold to the characters as a general rule.
At the end of the day, though, the two episodes thus far have been interesting, but in one respect I'm still where I was during last season's BSG finale -- really wishing that Starbuck had remained dead.
Starbuck, get a cross and hang yourself already. Please! Just, for the love of the gods, stop annoying the shit out of me!
During the original mini-series I really liked Starbuck, but in the years since she has grown (or, rather, not grown) to annoy me. And it's weird that she is my obstacle to embracing BSG, because it's not like I love any of the characters on BSG. Nor do I feel that I need to love any of the characters. Sometimes the utterly frakked up are the most interesting. (Yeah, Baltar falls into this category. He isn't the least bit likeable, but damn if he isn't a a trainwreck that's difficult not to watch.) So my problem with Starbuck isn't the likeability quotient. I don't find her likable, but that's not even the issue. And god knows she's a trainwreck. Added to that, the actress isn't half bad. It's just...Kara Thrace is a damn SPOILED BRAT!
My current problem with Starbuck and why she's annoying the shit out of me is her self-righteous "I'm not a Cylon!" hissy-fits. Okay, so she most probably isn't a Cylon, but how in the frakking hell is she so certain of that? It's not like the other stealth-Cylons knew that they were Cylons.
Actually, it's not even her own denial that's the problem. Denial I get. I certainly understood Tigh's reaction to his discovery that he's a Cylon. And I sympathized with Boomer hiding her Cylon nature. What chaps me is Starbuck's narcissistic inability to ever see anyone else's point of view, particularly her inability to give anyone else any credit. There are good, valid reasons why everyone is wary of her! She gets on a self-righteous high horse about how everyone is just supposed to "know" that she isn't a Cylon. Right, because all the factors of her miraculous return from the dead should just be overlooked because she's so damn special. When she was having her bitch-fit at Roslin about all her "sacrifices"... damnit, as if every other character on the whole damn show hasn't made sacrifices. Really, Kara, just you? Only you? No one else? Athena lost her frakking child for a year!
But that's Kara. Never bother with anyone else's feelings. It's part of why I found the whole love quadrangle of DOOM such a show destroyer last year. Guess what? I don't care who's frakking Starbuck. I don't understand why either of the men she's involved with continually forgiveher bullshit. It's really not forgivable bullshit.
And it's not that I think Anders was the poor wronged one last week when she said that if she discovered that he was a Cylon she'd kill him, just after he said that even if she is a Cylon he'd love her. Part of his vow to love her despite being a Cylon was based on his own discovery that he is a Cylon and thus he vowed to Kara what he wished she'd vow to him. (Yeah, good luck with that one, cowboy, this is Starbuck we're talking about. The world revolves around Starbuck... and not in the almost amusingly off-the-wall, psychedelic batshit Baltar kind of way. Just in a total narcissistic kind of way.) And Lee... well, he was better off in the government working with Roslin than he ever has been mired in Starbuck's 'romantic' hell. I frakking hate the Quad of Doom. Every damn bit of it. All of it. Everything. I don't want any more of it. It sucks in so, so many ways.
Okay, having bitched about Starbuck more than enough (did I mention that she annoys me?) I continue to enjoy all versions of Six. Cylon she may be, but she's always interesting to try to figure out. (Though I think allowing the Centurian's freedom may well be a very, very bad move.) And I enjoy Tigh's quandry. Being the uber-Cylon hater that he is, to discover he is one? Damn. Knowing how devoted he is to the fleet (and having killed his wife for helping Cylons) he's due for an existential meltdown... that he won't allow himself to have because he's not built that way. Roslin, Athena, and Helo are as close to character-love as I can get with BSG where I tend to remain somewhat cold to the characters as a general rule.
At the end of the day, though, the two episodes thus far have been interesting, but in one respect I'm still where I was during last season's BSG finale -- really wishing that Starbuck had remained dead.
