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very_improbableSo I hadn't been really following BSG for a couple seasons, but I came back last week, just in time to see the show's strong non-evil black female character kill herself (and see TPTB explain it in an interview with multiple references to how her relationships went badly) and to discover that the one gay character--who had, I knew from the interwebs, had an actual gay relationship in the webisodes--had also become the only physically disabled one.
This week Gaeta gets a plot, and it involves him deciding to help subvert the fleet government, albeit in a sympathetic context--and his invisible gayness goes into full cloaking mode with the hostile fake proposition in Starbuck's direction, making him, at this moment in time, perhaps the first character in television history to canonically be gay on the internet but not on teevee.
(I'm not saying I don't like Gaeta's plotline, exactly? because seeing major characters being divided meaningfully on these big survival-type issues is compelling to me, always has been. Coming back to the show after a long absence, I'm seeing a lot of the stuff that appealed to me in the beginning. But since we've just discovered, I guess, that Zarek has his hands dirty in some kind of secret-Blagojevich way and isn't a True Revolutionary after all, that means Gaeta is signing up for catastrophic disillusionment and has probably sealed his own death warrant with that handshake.)
Meanwhile, back at the straight white guys, I don't really know what's going on with Baltar right now but as always I LOVE IT.
This week Gaeta gets a plot, and it involves him deciding to help subvert the fleet government, albeit in a sympathetic context--and his invisible gayness goes into full cloaking mode with the hostile fake proposition in Starbuck's direction, making him, at this moment in time, perhaps the first character in television history to canonically be gay on the internet but not on teevee.
(I'm not saying I don't like Gaeta's plotline, exactly? because seeing major characters being divided meaningfully on these big survival-type issues is compelling to me, always has been. Coming back to the show after a long absence, I'm seeing a lot of the stuff that appealed to me in the beginning. But since we've just discovered, I guess, that Zarek has his hands dirty in some kind of secret-Blagojevich way and isn't a True Revolutionary after all, that means Gaeta is signing up for catastrophic disillusionment and has probably sealed his own death warrant with that handshake.)
Meanwhile, back at the straight white guys, I don't really know what's going on with Baltar right now but as always I LOVE IT.