BSG Spoiler vs Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 24 Mar 2009, 20:11 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:11:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) BSG Spoiler vs Wolfe
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James Wynn wrote:
> no one's sexual relationship in 
> BSG ended well except for Baltar and Six's.
> 
> If I were to ascribe a moral to sex in BSG it would be "sex 
> invariability causes people to act treacherously or cruelly."

There were at least three healthy physical relationships in BSG, all 
between married couples: Athena/Helo, Bill/Laura, and Galen/Callie. As 
for Ellen/Saul - well, as long as they stayed together they were fine, 
their problem was not having enough sex to suit Ellen.


> Did Baltar even have sex in the final episode? If not (and I'm thinking 
> not) it a first.  Certainly, Baltar and Six's relationship was hardly 
> less realistic than Wolfe's and, in general, its purpose was titilation.

IIRC Baltaar failed to have sex in most of the episodes with Pegasus Six 
and IIRC during the mutiny. The rest of the time would be about half and 
half - of course, half of 73 episodes is still a lot of sex for one farm 
boy.


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