Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007) is a two-hour television special belonging to the continuity of the new Battlestar Galactica series.
It was developed by Ronald D. Moore, written by Michael Taylor and directed by Félix Enríquez Alcalá.
Overview
Cast
- Edward James Olmos as William Adama
- Mary McDonnell as Laura Roslin
- Michelle Forbes as Admiral Helena Cain
- Grace Park as Number Eight
- Katee Sackhoff as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
- Jamie Bamber as Lee Adama
- Tricia Helfer as Number Six / Gina Inviere
- James Callis as Gaius Baltar
- Michael Hogan as Saul Tigh
- Fulvio Cecere as Alastair Thorne
- Stephanie Chaves-Jacobsen as Kendra Shaw
- Nico Cortez as Young William Adama
- Steve Bacic as Jurgen Belzen
- Campbell Lane as the Hybrid
Summary
The special follows two main timelines: a "present day" story set during Lee Adama's early command of the Battlestar Pegasus, and a series of flashbacks to the events set on the Pegasus after the Cylon's attack on the human Colonies. (There are also a few flashbacks to one of William Adama's missions during the first Human-Cylon war.)
When William Adama appoints Lee Adama as Commander of the Pegasus, Lee promotes Lieutenant Kendra Shaw to Major and appoints her as his Executive Officer.
The flashbacks show Lieutenant Shaw's time serving under Admiral Helena Cain, and her role in some of the atrocities that took place at that time, as a counterpoint to her first mission under Lee Adama's orders.
Notes
Razors passes the Dykes to Watch Out For test, but also contains dead/evil lesbian cliché.
Kendra Shaw is played by an actress of East Asian background.
The Hybrid is played by Campbell Lane, which is kind of amusing metacinematically since he once played an alien inside a human body on Alienated (S2). This is also the first appearance of a male Cylon Hybrid, and as a very aged, patriarchal male at that. Previously shown, female Hybrids were young, female humanoids, who resembled Samantha Morton's precog character in Minority Report.
Reviews
The mini-series has received a lot of attention from SF and media fans, and several reviews, some of which took on a feminist perspective.
- "You have to go through some major mental contortions to make this not fit the evil lesbian stereotype." -- cosmiccowgirl, on November 21, 2007 - 10:36pm, commenting at AfterEllen. [1]
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