in which we watch tv

[lolaraincoat]

If I had a superpower it would be procrastination. So much do I procrastinate that fishwhistle and I are only just now getting around to watching the third season of Battlestar Galactica, and we love Battlestar Galactica. Oh well.

By now, surely, everyone has said all that need be said about the show. And yet I want to point out one more thing, which is that BSG conforms to the Alison Bechdel Rule for Cinema: to be worth watching, a movie must contain at least one scene in which two women talk to each other about something other than a man. And I only started to notice this for this season, but sure enough, the third episode contained two such scenes at least, and there was quite a long one in episode four. There was even a scene in which two women who are not white talked to each other about something that was neither a man nor in any way race-related. Sweet!

I don't mean to give Moore et al too much credit for enlightenment, here: every single one of those scenes involved women talking to each other about babies. Still. This is, in a limited way, something like progress.

Now if only they could just cut it out with the lesbians who are both evil and dead, wow, that would be even better.

p.s. we're only up to episode five so if you comment please don't be all spoily, all right?

Comments

[mincot.livejournal.com]

THank you for poi9nting this out!

*sigh* It's sad when this is progress and we applaud it.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I am more distressed when the nice lesbians are dead. Although I really don't mind THelma on Hex being dead, not because she's evil but because it doesn't slow her down.

Are you by any chance going to con_txt?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

There's a Roslin-Starbuck scene in season one that has nothing to do with men or babies! :D

[majrgenrl8.livejournal.com]

And the Cain-Starbuck scene in season 2 that was more about Starbuck's promotion and military tactics (even though they did talk about Lee at some point dammit).

Oh and the Roslin-priest lady scenes in which they just talk about religion.

Various Starbuck-Kat scenes...

Yeah, BSG is very good at that.

There was a great promo that they did for Razor that followed the theme "Well behaved women rarely make history." It's spoilery for season 3 so I'm not going to link it.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did love watching Cain and Starbuck together. It's especially cool how we got to see all the sides of Cain (especially with Razor) and how she could be brilliant and awful and necessary and terrifying, all the same person.

[majrgenrl8.livejournal.com]

What I loved about Cain was that she was what happens when you only think militaristically. If you let go of enough humanity, you actually become the monster. It was a really brilliant move to have Cain be a woman (as the role had been played by a man in the original series). Having her embody the way that militarism takes away humanity really highlighted that absence. The scenes in season 2 with Gina were devastating and cruel and perfect.

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Yes, the women are amazing in BSG!

Hey, are you signing up for the dinners and so on at the Berkshire convention? Since I live in Minneapolis, I'd be happy to drive people around to lunches and dinners.