Too many fervent masturbators have written academic treatises about the homoerotic undercurrents in the relationship between Richard Hatch’s Apollo and Dirk Benedict’s Starbuck, but did the Sci Fi Channel really have to thwart their fantasizing by turning Starbuck into a girl? I’m all for feminism, but I don’t understand remaking things when the object is to totally change them rather than simply update them. I won’t watch more than a couple of episodes of that travesty, unless I’m being paid to write an episode. From what little I have seen though and what I’ve heard from friends, the chick Starbuck has like one ass-kicking moment in the whole show and spends the rest of the time adding sexual spice that morons believe could not have been shown in the 70’s. The saving grace is supposed to be that the new version is darker than the old one. Like we really need a lot more darkness in our lives in 2005. Then again, I’m having my period and a really bad CFIDS day today. Maybe the new series is fine.
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