(And if I'm going to be disappointed as I get to know them better, please don't tell me)

Not even a glimmer of that, from where I'm sitting.

(And I adore Tricia Helfer's portrayal of Six. Tough to believe this is her first major acting gig.)

She's the one it took me longest to warm up to, but I'm liking her more and more every ep. The last episode just fucking broke me. On so many levels, not just her.

Yay for Helfer love! I have been surprised to see how many people disliked her, but I've been impressed for a while now.

If only I can ever catch up these last three episodes.

I inhaled the last three eps last weekend, and now I can't wait for the damn new ones to come.

Hunh. I suppose I should hunt down some more Starsky & Hutch recs for the next update, then.

yes please!

I finished watching the first four episodes and I really like the show in general not just for the slashy goodness.

I've been hunting around trying to find recs, fics, etc. I know there's been a resurgence of interest in The Professionals, has the same thing happened with S&H.

Helfer does a great job making Six genuinely menacing. I love it when she brings out her rage, but the moments when she won me over were 1) the one in which (I think, during "Litmus") she chocks up with tears of envy that Helo was able to feel so passionately and love deeply, and 2) the expression on her face in the teaser to "Kobol's Last Gleaming" part 1 when she sat wordlessly with such stillness and sorrow after the Baltar/Starbuck tryst. The complexity she brings to the portrayal of Six is rather extraordinary.

Yay for Helfer love!

I read that as "Yay for heifer love!"

That was bad.

That was bad.

Especially since it was ita posting it.

I'm not sure which of the women I'd slash, though! Boomer and Six don't get along, and Boomer doesn't strike me as the antagonist-sex type. Starbuck--please not to laugh, yes, I know she's butch--strikes me as kind of, well, straight, plus whcih of the major characters would she go for? (I mean, you could do PWP with one of the other pilots...) Roslin's a little too focused on her Mission to be having sex with anyone, plus she's dying of cancer so I rather doubt she's feeling well.

Well, there's Ellen, I suppose. Ellen would totally sleep with any one of them if she thought she'd get something out of it. Or, hmm, Dualla, though again I just don't see her going there with any of the other major characters.

Ellen/Six.

It would require some ... finessing, but still.