Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Question: This is more a comment than a question. I watched the webcast of your Battlestar Galactica panel at the Museum of TV & Radio. (Ain’t technology grand?) It was very interesting and informative, but it was your question that had me the most interested. You asked whether the name Battlestar Galactica was a big hindrance because not since Buffy the Vampire Slayer have you as a critic had to defend your love of a show simply due to its title. Well, my comment is: Try being female and liking Battlestar. I swear many of my female friends threatened to take away my shoe-shopping privileges when I told them I watched it. It wasn’t until I proved to them that, yes indeed, I could still appreciate and gush about Grey’s Anatomy and Gilmore Girls that I was able to get them to watch the first season. Fortunately, the show is so good that that is all it took. However, I am very tired of having to defend my femaleness when I state that Battlestar is one of my absolutely favorite shows. Lost is a sci-fi show, people! It is just a label. Geez, I don’t even get this much flak about liking Entourage, which I think is far more testosterone driven than Battlestar. - Chris

Matt Roush: All I can say to this (besides how much I enjoyed reading it) is: Keep the faith.