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BSG meta: Gaius Baltar
Dec. 2nd, 2005 07:28 pmWatching Serenity has reminded me of one of the differences between Firefly and BSG, two shows I love with equal fervour. With Firefly, I really don’t have favourites. I can’t say I love Mal better than Simon or vice versa, Jayne better than Book, Kaylee better than Zoe, Inara better than Wash, and so on. This might just be the ensemble show (plus movie) where I manage to keep an equal ensemble love. (I’m an ensemble girl in any case, but with, say, Babylon 5, I have my clear priorities, my characters that are adored beyond measure and characters I only like, and those I just tolerate.)
In the new Battlestar Galactica, I’m first and foremost a Laura Roslin fangirl, but love the rest of the gang as well. There isn’t a regular character I find uninteresting or not worth watching and fleshing out, and of the recurring ones, I’d have to stretch it and point to two-episodes-character Anders to find anyone I’m not intrigued by. However, the degree of my interest can grow or lessen. Take Starbuck, for example: I’ve always liked her, and I still do, but I found her more interesting pre-Kobol’s Last Gleaming than I did afterwards. This might change again, of course.
Gaius Baltar, in the other hand, has become increasingly fascinating to me. He doesn’t actually fit any of my fannish archetypes. ( But let me ramble on about him at length anyway. )
In the new Battlestar Galactica, I’m first and foremost a Laura Roslin fangirl, but love the rest of the gang as well. There isn’t a regular character I find uninteresting or not worth watching and fleshing out, and of the recurring ones, I’d have to stretch it and point to two-episodes-character Anders to find anyone I’m not intrigued by. However, the degree of my interest can grow or lessen. Take Starbuck, for example: I’ve always liked her, and I still do, but I found her more interesting pre-Kobol’s Last Gleaming than I did afterwards. This might change again, of course.
Gaius Baltar, in the other hand, has become increasingly fascinating to me. He doesn’t actually fit any of my fannish archetypes. ( But let me ramble on about him at length anyway. )
