Starbuck becomes Stardoe?
Here’s a link to a Dirk Benedict fansite where they’ve posted a long, rambling screed from Dirk, the original Starbuck, about why the new BSG totally suxxors. His primary issue seems to be that the old BSG was a show with family values, good guys and bad guys, and no lingerie models, while the new BSG is a show mired in amorality, pessimism, and way too many lingerie models.
The “my Battlestar is better than yours” debate is an old one, so instead of rehashing that I’ll just post this gem from Dirk’s article:
“Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars. Hamlet does not scan as Hamletta. Nor does Han Solo as Han Sally. Faceman is not the same as Facewoman. Nor does a Stardoe a Starbuck make. Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out’ babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.”
Yes, indeed. Although I might pay for a date with Han Sally.
December 17th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
That is almost insane. The whole point that Starbuck is a woman is that its different than having her be a man. Duh.
December 18th, 2006 at 11:11 am
He’s just mad that Katee Sackhoff out Starbucked him.
December 18th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Does anyone remember Dirk Benedict from that “making of” teaser documentary from before the miniseries aired? He seemed rather supportive of Sackhoff’s role as a new Starbuck. Rather peculiar that he’d have such a change of heart.
The fact that he invokes the names of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in defense of the “values” of the original says quite a lot (on an unrelated note, does anyone who remains whistful for the Thatcher years have the right to argue that women can’t act like men?). It also requires some mental gymnastics to say that getting rid of a womanizing cigar-afficianado is a step away from family values (but again I regress). In all, it looks to me that Mr. Benedict has simply become a bitter, sexist old codger.
December 18th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
Exactly Robert. I also suspect he’s bitter because they didn’t give him a recurring role like Richard Hatch.
December 18th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Quite possibly, Keith: “Women from all over the world sent me boxes of cigars, phone numbers, dinner requests, marriage proposals”. Sounds like somebody misses the glory days.
December 20th, 2006 at 3:25 am
I never saw that “making of” teaser documentary. Is it on the first season DVD set? Anybody know?
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