Yet after all this time, science fiction remains the most stubbornly down-market genre America has produced. Hardly anybody who writes or acts in science fiction wants to admit it. Check out this profile of Katee Sackhoff, the actress playing Starbuck (who has, I have to say, an intriguing strain of genuine craziness in her performance). Sackhoff tells her interviewer, "It's not really science fiction." Which inspires me to yell: Girl, you're in a SPACESHIP shooting RAYGUNS at a bunch of KILLER ROBOTS. Are we supposed to think you're doing STRINDBERG? Like, you're really playing in THE CHERRY ORCHARD, only everybody has NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
I am sorry to have to break the news to you, girl, but you're a hot young actress in a science fiction series that happens to be the best television show around. Come to grips with it, girl. Deal with it. Hell, the Seventies are coming back at me, one TV show and record album at a time, and I can deal with it. I even like it!
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Article comments
1 - Shaun
I have had a Battlestar Galactica presence on my radio program for over a year now. I did 12 straight weeks of nothing but Galactica. But with the expanded program, I made it a smaller but still important segment.
Have had on many of the stars of the series, Katee Sackhoff has been on my program three times, Aaron Douglas aka Tyrol about four times and others.
BSG is a great show and it has been getting great ctitic praise since it started. It has slipped a little bit in viewers since the first season.
Scifi Channel will be airing the new Doctor Who series on Friday nights, I think as a way of testing it, in March once BSG is done for the summer.
BSG needs a stronger lead in, rather than a Stargate spinoff.
Shaun
2 - Eric
Do you think America will embrace the new Doctor Who series as readily as the Brits did? I don't know if the first 5 episodes are strong enough to keep viewers around for the superior second half of the season.
3 - Brent
As far as the new Doctor Who goes, it certainly worked for Canadians when it was broadcast on the CBC.