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(Breitbart.com) Hero "Starbuck -- Lost in Castration": Dirk Benedict reveals how he fought the network suits and finally pulled off one of the finest character portrayals in history. With a straight face, no less   (bighollywood.breitbart.com) divider line
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Yoweigh
2009-01-19 2:20:12 PM  
BOO HOO I WANT MY OLD JOB BACK AND THIS NEW GIRLY STARBUCK MAKES ME FEEL INADEQUATE! WAAAAA!
 
tdpatriots12
2009-01-19 2:29:32 PM  
No one gives a shiat, Face.
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 2:29:48 PM  
The article seems to think that destruction of most of humanity shouldn't be bleak and depressing. Yes, there is room for hope, but it would be very depressing and scary.
 
SpinStopper
2009-01-19 2:34:52 PM  
In the spirit of such soft-core, sci-fi porn I think a more re-imaginative title would have been "F**cked by A Cylon." - Dirk Benedict

You go, Dirk. I absolutely hate the new BSG ;)
 
UNC_Samurai
2009-01-19 2:36:32 PM  

EvilEgg: The article seems to think that destruction of most of humanity shouldn't be bleak and depressing. Yes, there is room for hope, but it would be very depressing and scary.


It almost seems like he's complaining there's too much nuance and reality in the moral ambiguity. I say, even if you honestly prefer a sci-fi setting with more of the good-vs-evil approach of old westerns, you still have to apologize for the robot teddy bear.
 
Guy Innagorillasuit
2009-01-19 2:38:41 PM  
Whaaaah! They turned my pulpy space adventure into harder science-fiction!
 
EvilEgg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 2:40:58 PM  

SpinStopper: In the spirit of such soft-core, sci-fi porn I think a more re-imaginative title would have been "F**cked by A Cylon." - Dirk Benedict


At least three of the Cylons would be great sexbots.
 
Beatle_Matt
2009-01-19 2:41:55 PM  
I love the new BSG. Way better storytelling than the old one.

My ONLY qualm with the new one is that everyone seems to be a goddamn cylon.
 
Guy Innagorillasuit
2009-01-19 2:49:31 PM  
Also; the character was the Han Solo to Apollo's Luke Skywalker. You weren't brilliant for recognizing that.
 
rocinante721
2009-01-19 3:01:21 PM  

Beatle_Matt: I love the new BSG. Way better storytelling than the old one.

My ONLY qualm with the new one is that everyone seems to be a goddamn gods damn cylon.


FTFY
 
rocinante721
2009-01-19 3:02:11 PM  
I was with him, until I was against him.

New BSG rules
 
rocinante721
2009-01-19 3:04:44 PM  
HA! HA!

on the main page, his article is immediately follow by:

Battlestar is Back: The Best Show on TV (new window)
 
DamnYankees
2009-01-19 3:06:52 PM  
Katie Sackhoff is better than you, Dirk.
 
Iwouldhitit [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 3:14:57 PM  
Wait a minute; Starbuck used to be played by a DUDE? That's farked up.
 
Dogberry
2009-01-19 3:16:59 PM  
Everyone off his gorram lawn!
 
Rye_
2009-01-19 3:19:44 PM  
My lord, that was whiny.
 
DslainteC
2009-01-19 3:22:14 PM  
Who cares what some barista thinks about BSG?
 
ozone
2009-01-19 3:22:45 PM  
Katie Sackhoff is more of a man than Dirk Benedict could ever hope to be. And I mean that in the best more complementary way possible
 
Banky_The_Hack
2009-01-19 3:26:07 PM  

Iwouldhitit: Wait a minute; Starbuck used to be played by a DUDE? That's farked up.


I didn't think TV was progressive enough back then to show Starbuck and Apollo making with the secks in the bunks after drunken card games.
 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 3:27:14 PM  

ozone: Katie Sackhoff is more of a man than Dirk Benedict could ever hope to be.


And more woman than he can ever hope to have, with that whiny attitude.
 
Sybarite
2009-01-19 3:31:02 PM  
One thing is certain. In the new un-imagined, re-imagined world of "Battlestar Galactica" everything is female driven. The male characters, from Adama on down, are confused, weak and wracked with indecision, while the female characters are decisive, bold, angry as hell, puffing cigars (gasp!) and not about to take it any more.

Yes, none of the female characters in BSG suffer from any kind of intellectual, spiritual or emotional crises.
 
namatad
2009-01-19 3:39:58 PM  
everything posted above
came here to say all of this, except for the one tard who doesnt like the new BSG

/plus, that cigar in the old starbuck is clearly just the gay
/oh wait, he is just upset that he didnt get cast on the new show
/who would have thought that hatch would play an interesting character ?
 
God Is My Co-Pirate
2009-01-19 3:53:04 PM  
Starbuck is the best female character on tv right now (Kima, baby, I miss you!).
 
rocinante721
2009-01-19 3:54:40 PM  

God Is My Co-Pirate: Starbuck is the best female character on tv right now (Kima, baby, I miss you!).


I'd say any one of the BIG LOVE wives would edge her out
 
DamnYankees
2009-01-19 3:56:10 PM  

Sybarite: Yes, none of the female characters in BSG suffer from any kind of intellectual, spiritual or emotional crises.


And the men truly have no leaders. Bill Adama is a wuss who no one would gladly walk into fire for.
 
brigid_fitch
2009-01-19 3:57:16 PM  
Poor, disillusioned Dirk. Dude--I really liked you as Starbuck, but you have to admit the show sucked. Larson capitalized on Star Wars and created a family-friendly ripoff. Watching the show now is cringe-worthy. But you go on railing at the heavens about how much work you put into a character that was obviously based on Han Solo. Just be glad you're not doing low-budget sci-fi any more.

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abb3w [TotalFark]
2009-01-19 4:05:02 PM  

DamnYankees: Katie Sackhoff is better than you, Dirk.


And probably has more women who want so sleep with her than he ever did.
 
DwightFrank
2009-01-19 4:23:46 PM  
He misspelled Han Solo's name.
 
Joelogon [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 4:23:55 PM  
If you think that Faceman is all kinds of butthurt, check out the comments on that site.
 
wee
2009-01-19 4:35:37 PM  
Dirk, dude, I loved Starbuck when I was 11. But I was just a child then. And when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things...

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DamnYankees
2009-01-19 4:37:25 PM  

wee: Dirk, dude, I loved Starbuck when I was 11. But I was just a child then. And when I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things...


Hot damn.
 
Jewronimo
2009-01-19 4:46:48 PM  
Dirk, Dirk, Dirk.... She would SO kick your ass

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Kirby Muxloe [OhFark]
2009-01-19 4:46:59 PM  
Heard Glen Larson talk at an SF convention in Toronto back in the day. He was very bitter about "the suits" getting in the way of his telling the story of BSG. Such gems as:
- we could not show a human being killed
- the Cylons had to lose every week
- you couldn't have a supporting character who was a prostitute

So he was in the position of writing an apocalyptic drama about an enemy that couldn't do you any lasting harm. When Glen spoke, he was a very unhappy man.

I think that the new show would be closer to what he had in mind.

/I thought Dirk Benedict was sick/at death's door?
 
Jewronimo
2009-01-19 4:47:23 PM  
Oops! that photo looks fraked up...
 
Sparkimus Prime
2009-01-19 4:49:02 PM  
Hell, I'd be upset to if the recast my role with Macaulay Culkin.

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This is that boy from Home Alone, right?
 
steveo
2009-01-19 4:51:04 PM  
Wow. Cry-baby ranting from the main article aside, I was surprised it only took 4 comments for someone to turn his "deconstruction of manhood" into a "GOD WILL SMITE YOU ALL!!" anti-heathen ramble.

Jack Lee - January 19th, 2009 at 10:17 am
The war is not lost! This temporary win against men and God will not stand....it is not the Natural Law of God, and we will return to what is right, just as the law of gravity dictates.

Way to use a goofy sci-fi geek rant to defend the sky wizard. Keep living the dream, Jack Lee.
 
Because People in power are Stupid
2009-01-19 4:52:02 PM  
Getting stuck on that planet has made him bitter.
 
bromidestain
2009-01-19 4:54:48 PM  
I was interested and then about two paragraphs in I was like "wait, what? Hey....is this that "conservative" Hollywood website that Bill Willingham wrote that whiny article?"

And lo and behold, it was there after all. (new window)

Yikes.

/Bill Willingham gets some points for Fables
//Dirk Benedict sounds like sour grapes, tho
 
noheadphones
2009-01-19 4:55:57 PM  
I love the OS and Starbuck was a killer character. Benedict made that show watchable.

However, the newer series kicks ass. Hoping Dirk makes an appearance (and I believe that's what he's trying to do here--get a role on the series).
 
EdVenture
2009-01-19 4:56:20 PM  
Beautiful. This is probably why I couldn't watch more than the first couple episodes of the new "improved" BSG.

I'd rather watch BSG 80 with the dumb flying bikes than the new crap.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2009-01-19 5:02:46 PM  

Sparkimus Prime: This is that boy from Home Alone, right?



Yeah, the kid from Home Alone has C-cups. You homo.

I don't even watch the new BSG. I couldn't get into the whole "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" thing. But I can aknowledge that it turned a cheesy, blatant Star Wars ripoff into something that at least some people consider to be genuinely good TV.
 
elvindeath
2009-01-19 5:03:22 PM  
lol. I like that the Weeners you see below is reads "Titov - January 19th, 2009 at 10:08 am Dirk, buddy, no offense, but the orginial Battlestar sucked on toast."

If you really want to spend some time in utter disbelief, just google Dirk Benedict Fan Cruise and look for pictures of the people who would lay out good money to go on a carribean cruise with Dirk Benedict. Safe to say their money would have been better spent on makeovers and personal trainers.
 
El Freak
2009-01-19 5:09:27 PM  
Dear Mr. Benedict,

You cannot, nor could you ever, act. Everything you were in was pure Velveeta and was aimed at 9 year olds. You're just pissed that you weren't offered a role on the new BSG because your acting skills are non-existent. You got lucky dude. Just let it go.
 
boonfarker
2009-01-19 5:12:06 PM  
I'm the kind of guy who likes both series: the old because of its goofy late-70s charm and it was what I loved as a kid (plus I still get a kick out of the original Cylon voice and would love to have a GPS that talked with it, ala the KITT version), and the new because it's advanced itself a million-fold (effects- and subject-wise) and talks about things they would never have dreamed about on network TV "back in the day". Reading Benedict's diatribe disappoints me, because I guess I always imagined him a laid-back guy like Starbuck and Face, and figured he would have had fun with it like Richard Hatch has (granted, Hatch has a role and Benedict doesn't, but still). He just comes off as a bitter old dude.
 
Raijer
2009-01-19 5:15:45 PM  
Feminism killed your acting career? Not likely, dumbass. The cause of your failure can be seen in the nearest mirror, Dirk.
 
CitizenTed
2009-01-19 5:19:05 PM  
I was a kid when the original BSG aired. I liked it, but it was a tad boring. I loved the cylons - their robotic voice, their roving eye - and I really hated Baltar for being the slimy quisling. I didn't care much about Adama, Apollo or Starbuck. And the farking teddy bear? Hated it.

The new BSG is light years better than the original. It's like comparing Sesame Street to Avenue Q or Dragnet to The Wire. The original BSG was sophomoric and bland. The new one is deep and intense. And Dirk Benedict blows monkey balls.
 
DamnYankees
2009-01-19 5:20:51 PM  
Benedict should have just gone the road of Richard Hatch - get an acting job on the new BSG and be awesome.
 
Seth'n'Spectrum
2009-01-19 5:24:58 PM  
That there was a whole lot of butthurt. Seriously.
I've never seen the old BSG, but I was at times tempted to check it out. Now, no more. It won't bother Benedict, but it'll save me some of my precious time to watch other equally pointless teevee shows.
 
Mobkey
2009-01-19 5:32:57 PM  
I think he could have fit "Suits" into the rant a few more times.
 
imfallen_angel
2009-01-19 5:34:43 PM  
Sorry, but I just can't get into the new version because it is NOT Battlestar Galactica... they should have just called it something else, it's a whiny soap/war opera.

The REAL BG had heart and points to made.

It was not a Star Wars ripoff either, it just came out during the same time frame, but had been in development way before the SW movies came out. Sure they used the special effects technology that was available at the time, that's like today with CGI, of course you'll get movies that have similar special effects. Heck, Star Trek hired the Babylon 5 guys to do their CGI, so would you say that Star Trek was a B5 ripoff?

For me Starbuck will always be "male", and this new show, if you like it, good for you, but what they call a "re-imagining" is not, it's a soap opera that could have been set in just about any space setting, or even planet bought (using boats or submarines, etc...)

The fact remains, this thing called Galactica, is not what the REAL story is.

Go read the books, etc. about what the real BG is about before you think that you need to defend your fapping material so hard.

But today's generation won't get this, so flame away.

/yeah yeah, the lawn thing... off of it.
 
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