I haven't seen Caprica yet, but your observation about the V-Club reminds me of something I found funny in RDM's commentary on "Daybreak." He said he'd written the strip club that Adama, Tigh, and Ellen are in in the flashbacks as having both male and female strippers as well as male and female patrons. Anyway, he somewhat awkwardly said he was a bit flummoxed when he got the film back from the strip club scenes and there were no half-naked men.
Other than it making me chuckle a little, it also made me think about how those sort of non-dialogued background elements would be as much directorial choices as authorial ones. And I may complain sometimes about the lack of female TV and movie writers, but that's *nothing* compared to the gender imbalance in directors. I think there were something like 16 or 17 episodes of BSG written by women, but only two directed by women. Not that either of those episodes struck me as having some super-feminist take on BSG or totally breaking with the traditional "male gaze" of the camera (I think the eps were "Water" and "No Exit"), but I'd be curious to see what a female director might do differently with what I'm assuming are background elements in a script like that.
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Other than it making me chuckle a little, it also made me think about how those sort of non-dialogued background elements would be as much directorial choices as authorial ones. And I may complain sometimes about the lack of female TV and movie writers, but that's *nothing* compared to the gender imbalance in directors. I think there were something like 16 or 17 episodes of BSG written by women, but only two directed by women. Not that either of those episodes struck me as having some super-feminist take on BSG or totally breaking with the traditional "male gaze" of the camera (I think the eps were "Water" and "No Exit"), but I'd be curious to see what a female director might do differently with what I'm assuming are background elements in a script like that.