I have not watched this yet… but I just found out.. now I heard about some of the script changes that were to be made.. but I had not seen the CAST changes. OMG… how do you make Buck a woman? And Boomer? Now he’s not a tall strong African American man he’s a short Asian American woman? I’m sure the actress is awesome… but these changing the sex of characters is freaking to me.
I think I’m going to have nightmares of Buck morphing into a woman. *SHUDDER*
I have no problem with remakes. Really. As long as they are done well. There have been some SUPERB remakes. Bye Bye Birdie remake? awesome. Sabrina? Awesome. But there have some HORRIBLE remakes. Time Machine? Don’t go there. Planet of the Apes… ARGH.
I have no idea what to think. I’m saving this possible train wreck for tomorrow when Sir Megabyte and I can watch it together. But between the storyline changes and now the turning my hottie Starbuck cowboy into a WOMAN…. I don’t know…
Did anyone watch it? Did they stay true to the LDS themes? Anyone? Lost tribes and council of the 12 and all that? I know they were making the cylons created by humans and so I guess they can’t be minions of the devil… Hmmm
I’m just heartbroken over this whole Buck is a woman thing.
Please, anyone… tell me if they did a good job even though they changed so much stuff? and is this Female Starbuck any good?? Gosh I hope so. But I guess I won’t be going “Starbuck is soooooo dreamy” this go round…
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doused_in_gin said:
YES! I found you through my friend swampfaye’s journal and thought your reply to her about her bubby was really interesting. I don’t know if we’ll hit it off but I’m always open to new pals! I totally TOTALLY agree with you on them making Starbuck a woman. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw that! My boyfriend E, he works at a hotel and told me last night that a friend of his at work was complaining about it as well! I asked if he’d told them I was equally chagrined and he said yes 🙂
BTW, I just created a new journal and username so my journal has nothing on it but my old one is . I’m going to be 31 on December 14th, I’m a woman, have a boyfriend of 6 years but we are having troubles so we might break up. I like science fiction and fantasy, England and the band placebo:) Just for a little info on me. I’m also republican so I hope that’s not a problem 😛
Anyway, good to meet you and I believe you are spot on with the Starbuck controversy. I say create a new character if you feel there aren’t enough females. Don’t mess with a classic!
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Lady Ozma said:
Well welcome to my journal then!!
I’m welcome to new friends as well. I may get pretty opinionated, but I try to make sure that no matter what I listen to other people’s opinions We may have to agree to disagree (and I do love a good debate) but I try hard to have their own free agency! 🙂 So anyway, I hope you enjoy my journal!! I”ll go check yours out in a bit!
I’m so glad that I am not the only one distrubed by Starbuck being a woman. My husband said “That’s silly” I was like “Oh yeah, it would be like making Pamela Anderson’s character on Baywatch a man!” (Just totally trying to get my point across) He laughed and said “What idiot would do that?” or something to that effect. Yeah well who would have ever thought cutie Starbuck would be made a woman? I had no other way of explaining it to him. He’s NEVER seen the original Battlestar… Deprived childhood…
I screamed “NOOOOOO” When I found out… I think I woke up my whole family 🙂
Well happy upcoming birthday! sorry to hear you are having trouble with your boyfriend though. I hope that things work themselves out, however that might pan out. My husband and I have had our share of troubles but we manage to work them out… thankfully. I don’t think I’d ever want to be single again, even though having a man around can be a pain in the arse! 🙂
I love sci fi and fanasy.. my fave genres! In any medium. I have dreams of going to England and France and Italy some day. I love all of Europe I guess! As far as bands… hmm… dunno… I listen to such a mix of stuff and never catch who sings what… I don’t care that you are a republican. I tend to vote republican but I consider myself independant. So as long as you can handle that… I’m good 🙂
I agree… create a new character if you want a woman. And they did it twice. With Boomer and Starbuck. Ugh! At least when Star Trek did a woman captain they made it a totally different ship so no one could say that they were trying to recreate a classic!!
I am excited to watch the miniseries… but I guess I am going to have to be VERY liberal…
Did you watch? Was it good?
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loadhan said:
Yeah, you’d think with a name like Starbuck they’d understand just what gender that character was supposed to be. 😉
I’m more worried about any sexual tension between Apollo and Starbuck … that’ll just be wrong!! I haven’t seen it yet so I don’t know …
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Lady Ozma said:
OMG… I may barf now
Sexual tension between Apollo and Starbuck… I think I need to wash my eyes, my brain, and every inch of my body… *SHUDDER*
yeah I kinda thought the name STARBUCK kinda said “Hey yo, I’m a GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUY” Thought it was just me… hehe
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