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[QUOTE]Originally posted by machf: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [qb] It's a little bit sad. As is Dirk Benedict's post. I was secretly hoping he'd make a guest appearance, but it would seem that bridge is burnt. Faceman's makes some good points (re: overbleak + teh sexxors + the case for roguish swanks), and I didn't realize it'd been such a struggle for Starbuck to be such a 'chauvinist' rogue, but I don't know that making Starbuck a girl is really the afront to masculinity he makes it out to be. If you're going to take gender equality seriously and have really competent girls fighting side by side with dudes on the show, one of the original series principles was going to have to be cast differently. [/qb][/QUOTE]Hmmm... too bad, I didn't know Benedict had later had such a reaction. Though I'll concede him a few points... Gender equality? That's an oxymoron, if they were equal there wouldn't be any gender differences at all in the first place. The proper talk should be of gender balance instead. Heck, there aren't two people in the whole planet who are equal. I doubt people could be considered 'equal' other than in legal/juridic terms. Oh, well, let's not get sidetracked... Personally, I don't think that turning Starbuck into a female version of the original is bad; instead, it would have been bad if they had kept him a man and made him a lousy incompetent coward with some woman having to come to his rescue every other episode... I liked the original series back then when I saw it around 1980 - I was 11 or 12 years old then. I like the new series nowadays. I'd day it's a show for people who watched the original as children back then and have grown up since. Of course, those who are still expecting it to be a kiddies' show are going to be disappointed... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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