Post of infinite hate

[bigscary]

So the grand finale of the show is a handful of white guys, mostly old, looking at the "Natives" and joking about breeding with them. And again, when the decision is made to abandon their physical culture, technology, and displace the current inhabitants of ReallyEarthThisTime, it's still a mostly male planning-group. Yes, tell me again how this show is arguably non-racist, non-misogynistic, or non-ageist.

Oh, and as to the interminable denouement? Fuck it. It's a litany of the bad choices everyone made before the apocalypse, and it's not explanatory, just embarrassing -- for the characters, the actors, and the creators.

I'm honestly trying to come up with my usual post-BSG-I-actually-watched attempt-at-comedy post, but nothin' doin'. The thing fucking makes fun of itself, and what little isn't second-to-second self-parody is just so infuriating as film making and politics that I can't seem to bring myself to engage with it in any mode but angry disdain.

As it actually ends, the one ray of hope is that given the hominids we saw, they're SO FAR BEFORE the agricultural revolution that they obviously all die out within a decade or two, century at most, and the non-invading hominids actually get their chance, rather than being replaced by obnoxious space-perverts.

OK ACTUAL ENDING IS AN ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!

ANTI-ROBOT MONTAGE!

Comments

[jlc.livejournal.com]

Let me start off by saying that I think the notion that describing something as n-th wave feminism means much is problematic. At best, the waves are little more than pointing out a particular historical context. But most of the time, they're just broad pejorative strokes applied to different evolving views of what feminism is. This gets especially problematic when you start talking about third-wave feminism: can you tell me just what that means, anyway? I've heard people tell me it's radical feminism from the 1980s, or that it's the outgrowth of the riot grrls, or that it's simply postmodern feminism, or that it's simply a response to and criticism of the essentialism of earlier feminist writers.

I think that any reasonable definition of feminism requires that in order for a work to be feminist, it must at the very least present a positive view of independent, empowered, non-masculinized women without relying on stereotypical gender roles or other patriarchical tropes. BSG pretty clearly fails on this test without worrying much about exactly how to slice what bits and pieces of it are and aren't anti-feminist.

[avram]

This gets especially problematic when you start talking about third-wave feminism: can you tell me just what that means, anyway?

No, that's what I was getting at in my last paragraph. I don't even understand what third-wave feminism is supposed to be.