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kyburgEnough with the Wayback Machine; let's return to me, sitting on the couch, watching the new Battlestar Galactica. And feeling deeply nervous at the appearance of a female in whom sexuality is a visible signal of Evil. The Cylons sent a sexy babe-bot to disarm and confuse the ambassador! Um, why? A Cylon disguised as a guy in a suit and a businesslike attitude would have had exactly the same effect on the plot. It didn't matter one whit whether the ambassador was confused. Boom--space station blow up, and short skirts and tongue-kissing don't change a thing. (Setting aside whether the first and most obvious way of determining the presence of life is swapping spit with someone.)
It got worse. Babe-bot reappears (she is, apparently, as common as Toyota Corollas, except that Toyota Corollas come in several colors) in even fewer inches of fabric, behaves like a fourteen-year-old boy's idea of the perfect girl-toy, and explicitly deploys all that boiling lust-function to do Evil. She even (gasp!) kills a baby. Sex is used to make babies, but sexuality is ultimately the enemy of a nurturing attitude, after all. And nurturing is what real girls are for.
At this point, I realized I was in TV SF hell.
Yup. I knew something was tweaking my WTF button.
And yes folks, this is what is passing for Good right now. God help us.
I miss Quantum Leap even more these days than I have any right to.
It got worse. Babe-bot reappears (she is, apparently, as common as Toyota Corollas, except that Toyota Corollas come in several colors) in even fewer inches of fabric, behaves like a fourteen-year-old boy's idea of the perfect girl-toy, and explicitly deploys all that boiling lust-function to do Evil. She even (gasp!) kills a baby. Sex is used to make babies, but sexuality is ultimately the enemy of a nurturing attitude, after all. And nurturing is what real girls are for.
At this point, I realized I was in TV SF hell.
Yup. I knew something was tweaking my WTF button.
And yes folks, this is what is passing for Good right now. God help us.
I miss Quantum Leap even more these days than I have any right to.
