With all the attention garnered by Ronald Moore’s re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica, it’s easy to forget what was good about the original series — and if you’re willing to filter out the 1970s cheese factor there is a lot of good to be found. One of these is the female characters. This week’s Danger [...]
dead-lock –noun a state in which progress is impossible, as in a dispute, produced by the counteraction of opposing forces; standstill; stalemate: The union and management reached a deadlock over fringe benefits. Ellen Tigh lets her baser urges get the better of her in last Friday’s Battlestar Galactica episode “Deadlock.” It’s Tuesday and you know [...]
Below is piano player Branka Parlic performing Philip Glass’ “Metamorphosis.” This haunting song appears in the Battlestar Galactica episode “Valley of Darkness” when Kara Thrace plays a recording of it in her abandoned Caprica apartment. She tells Helo that the player in the recording is her father. Later, Kara dons a paint-splattered old military jacket [...]
There is a poll embedded in this post. I have quite a few books in my TBR pile and sometimes I waffle on which to read next. Help me out by letting me know which of the following heroines you are most interested in reading about next. If your favorite isn’t listed in this poll, [...]
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