Meet Samantha T Anders

[rayruz]

This is something I'm sure I have talked about before, but for the life of me if I've made a post about it I can't find it. One of ivanolix 's porn battle entries (or three of them really) reminded me of a conviction that I have about Sam.

I believe that Sam/Kara would have been a better pairing and overall plotline if Samuel T Anders was replaced with

Comments

[ariastar]

I APPROVE OF THIS POST.

From skimming your comments, it looks like maybe some other people have also brought up the solution to the potentially problematic bisexual slut & dead lesbian that would result from Kara/Samantha, which is, of course, moar queers. Although having, say, clearly visible Six/D'Anna, or Dee/Billie, or more on-screen Gaeta/Hoshi, or maybe giving Tori actual things to do and having her be in love with Roslin, or, hell, keeping Billy a man and then making Dee a man too, later to awkwardly marry Lee, would not result in any functional queers at all, I think that might be okay, because each of these people are differently screwed-up, and once there's that much visibility it's a lot more difficult to just sit there and go "Fail everywhere

[shah_of_blah]

I think you're dead on about the difference it would have made with the Farm/Scar storyline (I'm still perplexed that in the episode called 'Scar' there was not a single reference to, you know, that scar). And I would totally (multi-)ship Kara/Samantha.

[callmeonetrack]

Really? I have to say I'm sorta surprised because of your post a few weeks ago about shipping Kara/Lee because that's clearly who Kara loves more.
What would be the difference if Sam was Samantha?

(Not judging, just curious. :)

[shah_of_blah]

I was talking mostly about what Ray said about how Sam becoming Samantha would alter their responses to the farms, and sort of...validate Scar a bit more. Although I don't think anything really merits that many flashbacks of the same two scenes...

Assuming Samantha followed the same trajectory as Sam, I highly doubt it would overcome my K/L-loving ways, but I think the heightened angst in Scar would work a little better (not that I hate Scar as is...I'm fond of it, but with a selective memory).

[callmeonetrack]

Well having it actually be about her Scar and the experience in the farms was bandied about in the writers room but then they decided it'd be better to pile on the Sam angst instead of Farm/cylon angst, inexplicably.