Date: 2012-04-01 01:25 pm (UTC)
Haha, I LOVE Lee's annotations on the letter, and the relationship between Laura and Ellen :D

I'm also really intrigued by the premise. The impression I get from BSG is that, besides the prejudice against cylons and certain religions, the creators tried to create a liberal society. Women have more power and independence than they do in most Western countries, interracial relationships are relatively common, and even the rebel cyclons and the Five gain more respect and equality as the series goes on. I tend to think they failed, not because of deliberate prejudices, but because of ingrained heteronormativity in Canadian and American culture. By the time they got to Caprica, they perhaps realised their faults and were able to make an attempt at correcting them. From my own experience with writing, it can be really hard to try to create a wholly egalitarian culture because you're constantly forced to re-evaluate your own worldview and the ideas that are constantly being reinforced in your everyday life. Of course, this doesn't explain why Gaeta is revealed to be bisexual in 'The Face of the Enemy', but this isn't shown in the main series outside of the betrayed look on Hoshi's face in the mutiny (and perhaps his idolisation of Baltar in earlier seasons), which could easily be attributed to friendship. Anyway, I'm not really trying to defend the relative conservatism so much as consider an external reason for the difference between BSG and Caprica.

I also really like Laura fighting for women's rights. It's something she mentions having done over her career in BSG, but the only real event in which women's rights are called into question she suppresses them and, outside of that one episode, doesn't really seem to feel remorse for it, which seemed kind of out of character to me.
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