Dirk Benedict: Battlestar Galactica Has Been Taken Over By Feminazis

[FVZA_Colonel]

No, Old Starbuck didn't literally say this, but he might as well have:


http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dbenedict/2009/01/19/lt-starbuck-%85-lost-in-castration/

Lt. Starbuck … Lost In Castration.
Dirk Benedict

There was a time, I know I was there, when men were men, women were women and sometimes a cigar was just a good smoke. But 40 years of feminism have taken their toll. The war against masculinity has been won. Everything has turned into its opposite, so that what was once flirting and smoking is now sexual harassment and criminal. And everyone is more lonely and miserable as a result.

Witness the “re-imagined” “Battlestar Galactica,” bleak, miserable, despairing, angry and confused. Which is to say, it reflects in microcosm the complete change in the politics and morality of today’s world, as opposed to the world of yesterday...

“Re-imagining”, they call it. “Un-imagining” is more accurate. To take what once was and twist it into what never was intended. So that a television show based on hope, spiritual faith and family is un-imagined and regurgitated as a show of despair, sexual violence and family dysfunction. To better reflect the times of ambiguous morality in which we live, one would assume. A show in which the aliens (Cylons) are justified in their desire to destroy human civilization, one would assume. Indeed, let us not say who the good guys are and who the bad are. That is being “judgmental,” taking sides, and that kind of (simplistic) thinking went out with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and Kathryn Hepburn and John Wayne and, well, the original “Battlestar Galactica.”
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One thing is certain. In the new un-imagined, re-imagined world of “Battlestar Galactica” everything is female driven. The male characters, from Adama on down, are confused, weak and wracked with indecision, while the female characters are decisive, bold, angry as hell, puffing cigars (gasp!) and not about to take it any more.
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While this might not be quite the right place to post this, I just felt it to be such an amusingly perfect example of the D-List Conservative whining that we've seen for the past eight years I thought it would be worth a go here.

[MadMaddie]

1. FRACK this bastard! Battlestar Gallactica is the best show on

the TV machine......

And darn it one of my favorite characters checked out...

[graywarrior]

2. Poor Dirk.

Too much miso and kombu.

[muntrv]

3. Poor Dirk! He doesn't have a cock anymore! It's the women's fault!

:crazy: :dunce: :nopity:

[graywarrior]

9. He had prostate cancer.

[targetpractice]

4. This is 6 years old.

He wrote this after the 2003 mini-series.... I don't know if still holds this opinion.

[FVZA_Colonel]

5. I just saw it today, he seems to have just gotten a job with some crappy right-wing blog.

I actually didn't know he'd written this before the 19th before posting this, thank you for letting me know.

I imagine he's only gotten more bitter with time as the show's become more and more popular.

[MrModerate]

7. OK . . . but the miniseries was still . . .

Lightyears ahead (pun intended) of the dreck he and his fellow cast & crew churned out.

[MrModerate]

6. Let's see . . . Original BSG: pure-D shit . . .

New BSG: one of the grittiest, lean-mean, moving, thoughtful, deep Sci-Fi shows ever.

Yep, that sure qualifies Benedict to talk out of his ass. He's just jealous that Katie Sackloff has bigger ones with more brass than he does.

[sofa king]

8. Hmm. That's counter to my recollection.

I recall the original Battlestar Galactica as a campy, rambling Star Wars knockoff that lifted its plot from random viewings of Japanese cartoons and Cecil B. DeMille films. And I recall a certain cigar-chomping "actor" trying to work his way up to his career pinnacle as a straight man for Mr. T.

On the other hand, the new Battlestar Galactica manages to put itself forward as a better drama than most of the prime-time forensic crap out there, while cleverly weaving in tough questions about faith, morality, and ethics--all things the original show wouldn't have dared to touch if its coked-out marketing team had hired decent writers in the first place.

Glad to see you have a job blogging there, Faceman. But then again, so do I.

[cynatnite]

13. There is a relation to Mormonism from what it says here...

Yes there are. Glen Larson (producer and creator) is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, hereafter referred to as the "Mormon" or Latter-day Saint (LDS) church. Some of the ideas in Galactica are unmistakably Mormon in origin.
1. In Battlestar Galactica, twelve tribes of man founded the Twelve Colonies after departing from Kobol. A lost thirteenth colony colonized Earth. In The Book of Mormon, around 600 BC, the prophet Lehi took a remnant of the tribe of Joseph from Jerusalem to ancient America, during the time of the Babylonian captivity and the scattering of the twelve tribes of Israel.

2. In "Lost Planet of the Gods", it is revealed that the mankind originated on Kobol, the mother world of all humans. Kobol is a rearranging of the word Kolob, which is the star "nearest unto the throne of God" (see The Book of Abraham, Ch. 3, found in The Pearl of Great Price.) The "Star Kobol" was also the ship on which armistice talks between the Colonials and the Cylons were held.

3. The episode "War of the Gods", with starred Count Iblis and the Ship of Lights, introduces viewers to various elements of LDS teachings. The universe is under the law of Free Agency: "We cannot interfere with freedom of choice. His, yours, anyone's." Even Count Iblis (Satan) is bound by these laws, for he has only control over those who had "freely given him dominion." Those who accepted Iblis' words were willing to follow him blindly provided he guaranteed their safety. According to the Mormon account of creation (The Book of Moses, Ch. 4, found in The Pearl Of Great Price), one of the reasons God cast Satan out of heaven was because he "sought to destroy the agency of man."

4. The beings on the Ship of Lights are highly evolved brothers of man, and may also have founded Kobol. The phrase "As you are now, we once were; as we are now, you may become" is a rewording of a quote from Lorenzo Snow: "As man is, God once was; as God is, man may become." This is an important component of the doctrine of Eternal Progression. According to LDS beliefs, all humans are children of God, who is Himself an exalted man. By following God's laws, a believer can enter the path to godhood.

5. In their sealing ceremony, Adama sealed Apollo and Serina with these words: "A union between this man and this woman not only for now but for all the eternities." In a Latter-day Saint temple marriage, a couple is sealed for "time and all eternity."

6. There is a similarity in the political structures of the Colonies and the Latter-day Saint church. Both bodies have a Council (or Quorum) of the Twelve, and a President.

7. In the Galactica 1980 episode "The Super Scouts", Dillon uses the phrase "The glory of the universe is intelligence," a rewording of a passage in Doctrines and Covenants #93: "The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth." In Experiment in Terra, aboard the Ship of Lights, the "angel" John tells Apollo "I have no physical body, as you know it." Apollo, pointing to John's "body", asks him "What do you call that?" "A reflection of intelligence. My spirit, if you will." Later on in "The Super Scouts", Dillon remarked that he was admiring "this choice land." This is a variation of the Book of Mormon description of the Americas "This land is choice above all other lands" (1 Nephi, Ch. 2. et al.)

http://www.kobol.com/archives/BG-FAQ.html#E21

[relayerbob]

16. absolutely waas

I lived in Salt Lake City at the time, and it was replayed incessantly. It absolutely followed LDS theology and that was openly admitted and discussed in the papers at the time

[cynatnite]

10. Strong women makes Dirk's penis shrivel up n/t

[Swamp Rat]

11. LOLOLOL!!!!! The new Starbuck Kara Thrace could kick his ass so easily.

:D

[Telly Savalas]

12. Perhaps Demi Moore would be willing to play the role of "Face"

on a remake of the A-Team.

[mainegreen]

14. People who analyze sci-fi so seriously make me laugh.

It's a great show, but SEXY ROBOTS for christs sake. It's a TV show with SPACESHIPS.

Good grief

[relayerbob]

17. literature is literature

even if it is Sci-fi. I take it you never read/watched 2001, the original Day the Earth Stood Still, Arthur Clarke, Asimov, etc.?

[mainegreen]

24. I have.

Perhaps I should have been clearer. I meant 'Sci-fi' the channel, not the genre.
My fault there. Sorry.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

15. He must have learned from George Peppard

Old George ran every woman off the "A-Team" because he thought it was a "man only" show.

Of course, there is some speculation as to just how much George liked men.

[dbonds]

18. Read some of those comments, looks like it was freeped.

Some really scary people commenting there.

… when men were men, women were women and sometimes a cigar was just a good smoke. But 40 years of feminism have taken their toll. The war against masculinity has been won…

The war is not lost! This temporary win against men and God will not stand….it is not the Natural Law of God, and we will return to what is right, just as the law of gravity dictates.

And you’re right about the program. It is totally feminized, including the gross overreactions and emotional vendettas that mark our present Age. Thankfully, ours is a righteous God and he will not be mocked. When the present generation of Baby Boomers find out personally just how rotten they were, this horrid, artificial construct of a neomarxist utopia will go with them.

[RoyGBiv]

19. Katie Sackloff would kick his ass ...

The current Starbuck is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bRQ8SRyZo

[htuttle]

22. "What do you hear, Starbuck?" ... "Nothing but the rain, sir."

[RoyGBiv]

26. "Then grab your gun ..."

"... and bring in the cat."

[Cheap_Trick]

20. I used to LOVE the original Battlestar years ago,

Bought the full series on DVD when it came out. Could only sit throught a handfull of episodes. Mocked them mercilessly throughout. Old BSG isn't fit to wipe the skidmarks out of Edward James Olmos' underwear.

Frak you, Dirk the Jerk.

[Touchdown]

21. No way he wrote that. He's never given a political statement ever.

Besides, when they started the new show, he was on the launch "special", and had a good time. He was smoking cigars with Katee Sackhoff in a Starbucks Coffee Shop. Hilarious.

[AnnieBW]

23. Sour Grapes much?

Just because they gave Richard Hatch a nice, meaty part and blew you off...

[applegrove]

25. I adored him as a tween. Haven't thought of him in years.