#and Athena but she's faded to a background character since she's stopped being a love-interest for Starbuck.......

[parlerenfleurs]

It is sometimes almost unbearable to watch old media and see how the women are written. Some characters (and then, only some of the time usually) are pleasantly almost better written than one would hope for, but sometimes. Oh my god. Sometimes. The hero tries to help a group of refugees off of his spaceship and gets them to their destination on a pretty much empty planet, and then the young, pretty woman (who has three kids, mind you) among them immediately decides to go and sabotage the hero's ship to force him to stay with her, something that would warrant at least some anger, but certainly also a punch if she were a man, but since she's ~a girl~ no. She just gets to act this way with no social consequence. She says she doesn't love her companion (who asked you to???) and doesn't want the hero to leave her here alone (not his problem?????). She gets lectured by her companion (not a lover or family, just a guy she was escaping with but who somehow acts like he's in charge of her, and so does she) like an unruly child, as he tells her that the hero saved them and then she goes and does something like this to him (which, yeah!! Precisely! You'd think an adult woman wouldn't recklessly do this and expect the hero would then trust and love her and yet!! Apparently this is not a deal-breaker in and of itself since she actually ends up with this guy companion!). Then her kids comfort her (what the fuck??).

Anyway, I've seen the worst Battlestar Galactica series (the old one) episode yet, and this damn character was only one of my grievances with it, but uurggh I can't stand how they write women sometimes, I really can't.

For instance I hate how a weird guy who is obviously sus as hell enters the plot, and of course a woman will immediately be seduced/influenced by him even if he's twice her age and not appealing at all.