Tuesday, August 4, 2009

It's been confirmed that there will be a gay male character on Caprica (and he sounds very interesting), while there was some footage in the pilot (which I assume will be cut for television) which demonstrated that lesbians are in existance as well. This is good to hear. There were gay / bi / lesbian characters on BSG but you had to either pick up on signals or watch extras ("BSG: Razor", "BSG: The Face of the Enemy") to really get that you weren't just imagining stuff. We had Admiral Cain who was apparently a lesbian, involved with Gina Iviere (a Cylon model Six). We had Felix Gaeta who was apparently bi, involved with a Cylon model Eight, and later Louis Hoshi (who may be gay or bi; we don't know enough about him to know which). Gaeta is a fairly big character through the show. It's implied that he had an infatuation with and a possible offscreen encounter with Gaius Baltar. Hoshi is introduced in Season 2, and keeps a low profile through much of the show, though he has some nice moments at the end. Caprica Six, Baltar & D'Anna (a Cylon model Three) have a 3-way relationship though it's unknown how that works exactly. We've seen two Six's kiss on the mouth before one of them killed the other (a very complex scene that seemed to move beyond the gender of those involved IMO). There are some guys standing close together in "A Disquiet Follows My Soul" though people interpret this differently, and basically see what they want to see. Some LGBT fans of the series were upset that the LGBT stuff wasn't more prominant, but from my perspective it was enough; they didn't have to include any, and the characters we did get were mostly, extremely complex. Caprica sounds like it's going to continue this, with possibly even more blatant content, and that sounds really interesting to me, when I would have been watching the show anyways.

   posted by Bald Jason at 06:17 PM
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