Interesting meme...

[cloudsinvenice]

Stolen from afrozenflower:

Comment with one of my fandoms and I'll tell you:

the character I least understand
interactions I enjoyed the most
the character who scares me the most
the character who is mostly like me
hottest looks character
one thing I dislike about my fave character
one thing I like about my hated character
a quote or scene that haunts me
a death that left me indifferent
a character I wish died but didn’t
my ship that never sailed

Comments

[swiftsnowmane]

Battlestar Galactica? :)

[cloudsinvenice]

the character I least understand
I often found Apollo hard to fathom.

interactions I enjoyed the most
Ohhhh, man. It was just such a great ensemble show that you could pick out a lot - I always enjoyed the old married couple vibe of Adama and Tigh, and also the relationship between Adama and Starbuck and how the death of Zak hung between them.

the character who scares me the most
I was scared of the Cylons when they looked like robots...

the character who is mostly like me
Felix Gaeta - I can relate to both his idealism and the way that it curdles.

hottest looks character
I ended up with a crush on Baltar, but Starbuck is amazingly magnetic. Caprica Six is the glamorous woman I'll never be. There's probably people I'm forgetting; it was a very attractive cast overall...

one thing I dislike about my fave character
My favourites were Starbuck and Baltar. Baltar's easy, because you're supposed to be appalled by his selfishness and duplicity. With Starbuck, I remember being dismayed when she just slid into the whole religious quest thing for the arrow - I hadn't expected the show to uncritically endorse the state religion of the characters and it felt weird that someone who was such a cynical rebel would be so into it.

one thing I like about my hated character
I gradually found that I couldn't stand Laura Roslin, but I was very touched by her growing relationship with Adama.

a quote or scene that haunts me
Starbuck admitting her responsibility for the death of Zak, and Bill Adama taking that information in, is a painful moment...

a death that left me indifferent
I don't think there were any - it was a very polarising show and I was frequently polarised!

a character I wish died but didn’t
Again, I don't think there's anyone - firstly because that show killed people left and right, and secondly because, as per my answer to jesuswasbatman, I don't usually get terribly embroiled in hating characters.

my ship that never sailed
It would've been interesting if Adama and Tigh had turned out to have another dimension to their close, decades-long relationship...

[mumsisdaughter]

I haven't bothered with the new Battlestar Galactica. I remember the original, where Starbuck was a man and so I shipped him and Apollo so badly. The last episode with Starbuck and a damaged Cylon stranded together on a barren planet, with no hope of rescue, was very moving.

[cloudsinvenice]

I've never seen the whole of the original series; I really must get around to that! The movie I rather like...

[swiftsnowmane]

I haven't seen the whole thing either, but since my husband is a big fan of the original and always tells me all about it and shows me random clips, it sometimes feels almost like I've seen it, lol. But I really should properly sit down and watch it all at some point.... XD

[swiftsnowmane]

Ooooh, really nice responses!

It's been absolutely ages since I saw BSG, but your answers are now jogging my memory, and I'm recalling that I felt very similarly about several of the things you mention. Especially Starbuck. I LOVE her. SO MUCH. She was always my favourite. But I totally agree that the way her arc was handled later on (post-New Caprica onward) was rather bizarre, not to mention, as you say, even OOC at times. It's not that don't appreciate explorations of religions and religious topics in sci-fi (obviously!), but moreso that I didn't really enjoy the way the show handled that side of things in general in the final seasons. It just didn't 'work' for me, for whatever reason. And there were several characters whose storylines suffered as a result.

But yeah... overall, the BSG reboot had some very compelling characters, as well as some fascinating character interactions and relationships. I also remember loving the visuals for the most part, and thinking the space battles and whatnot were well done. I just recall wishing that the second half of the series had been just a *little* less convoluted, plot-wise. ;p

I'm also with you on not really being inclined toward 'hating on' characters. (Certain extreme psychopatic/villainous types being the exception, lol.) Usually I try to just focus on the characters and relationships that I *do* like. :)

[cloudsinvenice]

I really want to rewatch the whole series sometime, because I saw, I think, the first three and a half seasons and then didn't see the rest of season four until years later - and all of this was after it had stopped airing, so I wasn't in the middle of the contemporary discussion of it. Googling now, apparently the religious stuff was seen as a response to post-9/11 America, people perceived the Cylons as an Al-Qaeda analog, etc. etc...

[swiftsnowmane]

Oh, interesting! That does make sense. I didn't actually watch it as it was airing either, but rather later on, after I'd already been living in the UK for several years. So perhaps the lack of that particular context did make it all seem a tad more jarring than it would have otherwise..