From a reader: Whether its Cain oinking with a subordinate, or Adama daddying around with his boy, or Chief oinking with wassername cylon girly early on, isn’t all this informality and fraternization crap on BSG:
A- a HUGE hole in its attempt to do justice to military codes and ethic<!–
B- a huge argument for the don’t ask don’t tell, punish adultery, no fraternization, women are a big problem for unit coheshion, etc etc etc of the actual military.
Its seems like half the dumb s**t happens because of violation of fraternization and good order codes, and the other half from violation of other military norms (hitting superior officers <starbuck vs 1st mate drunk dude>, drinking hours before flight status, etc)
Oh, and the whole gender integrated military thing is a nice cutesy touch, but the only character to plausibly be a tough enough chick was Cain, the rest come off as cheerleaders donning the football uniform to be cute/sexy- girly girls play acting at tough military types. And Cain being a lesbian was totally appropriate though, because manish women in fact do tend to be lesbians and vice versa, just like champion softball players. Some stereotypes are true.

Me: I dunno. Starbuck is plausible enough. I don’t want to go near the mannish lesbians thing. I know some mannish ones and some decidedly non-mannish ones. Last: When did “oinking” replace “boinking”?And then there’s this from a reader:

I think you missed a big part of the subtext: a Gemonese (Geminese?) as a lesbian.The Gemonese in the remake seem to be allegorical to the Christian Right/ultra-conservatives of the 12 colonies. They are fanatically anti-abortion, intensely conservative, and intensely religious.Pegasus Six was Gemonese — remember that Kendra Shaw knew that her name was Gemonese for “Resurrection”.So here we have a Gemonese woman who is a lesbian.On top of that, we have the subtle fact that Pegaus Six chose as her last name “Resurrection”, a process which all Cylons undergo when they die. They even have a ship named after it. (It makes me wonder what Valeri means in Tauron? Perhaps “assassin”? “Traitor”?)I might be stretching, but what I saw was “dots” that never got “connected” by anyone because they were all to close it. Sound familiar?Of course, another ripple in the storyline in the fashion of the entire “Star Trek: Enterprise” series was that Bill Adama knew about the human experiments. But it never came up before– like in the mini-series when he fought (and killed) Leoben? And, how did his Viper show up in a shipyard forty years later when it was shot out from underneath him in the last battle of the first war? And how come Baltar and Diana were still looking for the Hybrid when the Hybrid was destroyed? Are there more than one? Wouldn’t the toasters know that “the hybrid” was destroyed?Razor was entertaining, but as far as advancing the storyline, it was two steps backwards and a stumble. They seem to be focusing too much on Adama — he “started” the war when he was on Valkyrie, he “knew” about the attempts to create a human-form Cylon. One can only imagine what he will be responsible for next.But anytime I can watch Michelle Forbes is a good one. I’ve like her since she played Ensign Ro. Of course, I thought she was much better — and a lot more freaky– as the ME on Homicide.