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!

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[bigscary.livejournal.com]

That's my point. Stargate cares precisely fuck-all about feminism, but because one of their stated goals is to reflect the US military as it wants to be seen and claims it is, women hold rank without having to exhibit stereotypically masculine traits (some do, some don't, some actually change over time), solve problems in ways besides the gun, men have feelings that aren't punished (Adama pers is only allowed to love a dying woman, and even then only at the end of the road, fils is only allowed to love Starbuck, who is reliably Someone Else's Property). BSG touts itself as feminist, post-sexist, etc etc etc, and it's easily one of the most misogynistic SF shows I've seen of late (not as misogynistic as Dollhouse, but then, Girls Gone Wild arguably makes that low, low, low, low, low (low low low low low) bar).