First a word about these two views of Tricia Helfer.The second of these photos is typical six: Slinky red dress, backlit so that her crotch glows like a ray gun. The first one scares me. The first seems to be the actress’s idea of a real person…
Do a Google search for images of tricia helfer, and you’ll find her as Six, or in her underwear, often having a hard time putting it on, as if she’s not very good at that sort of thing.
The whole sex goddess thing is at least an adult persona. The sex kitten thing is what? Depth?
But onward:
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BOOMER/SHARON: The whole bit about the Cylon who doesn’t know she’s a cylon, acts counter to her programming, but ultimately follows it, is cool. Mostly, though, she reminds me of some the young women I know who’ve been in the armed services. She looks almost waifish, but she has training, and she has skills.
WHAT I HAVE A MIXED RESPONSE TO: In an attempt to assert her “humanity,” they appeal to the “woman’s essential nature” argument. In terms of playing typologies against each other (in a world in which natural = good, then motherhood is good and a cyborg is evil, so a cyborg mother is . . ?)
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT PRESIDENT LAURA: She defies any easy stereotype. She’s intuitive, touchy/feely—but also a calculating politician. I like the fact that the writers allow her to play against the audience expectation that she will see the “good” in the “good” cylon, when Sharon comes back.
It is a relief to see a middle aged woman being played as a middle aged woman. What a radical idea! They don’t hide her wrinkles behind inches of make-up, or hide her behind an “old battle axe” persona.
In depth of character, she Gaius Baltar are the richest characters on the show.
NEXT UP: RACE on BSG (or “What a novel idea, to have a pretty African American Woman as a communications officer on a starship”!)
Do a Google search for images of tricia helfer, and you’ll find her as Six, or in her underwear, often having a hard time putting it on, as if she’s not very good at that sort of thing.
The whole sex goddess thing is at least an adult persona. The sex kitten thing is what? Depth?
But onward:
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BOOMER/SHARON: The whole bit about the Cylon who doesn’t know she’s a cylon, acts counter to her programming, but ultimately follows it, is cool. Mostly, though, she reminds me of some the young women I know who’ve been in the armed services. She looks almost waifish, but she has training, and she has skills.
WHAT I HAVE A MIXED RESPONSE TO: In an attempt to assert her “humanity,” they appeal to the “woman’s essential nature” argument. In terms of playing typologies against each other (in a world in which natural = good, then motherhood is good and a cyborg is evil, so a cyborg mother is . . ?)
WHAT I LIKE ABOUT PRESIDENT LAURA: She defies any easy stereotype. She’s intuitive, touchy/feely—but also a calculating politician. I like the fact that the writers allow her to play against the audience expectation that she will see the “good” in the “good” cylon, when Sharon comes back.
It is a relief to see a middle aged woman being played as a middle aged woman. What a radical idea! They don’t hide her wrinkles behind inches of make-up, or hide her behind an “old battle axe” persona.
In depth of character, she Gaius Baltar are the richest characters on the show.
NEXT UP: RACE on BSG (or “What a novel idea, to have a pretty African American Woman as a communications officer on a starship”!)
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