[ SECRET POST #3805 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3805 ⌋

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Re: Unpopular characters that you love

[skeletal_history]

My favorite character in Battlestar Galactica was Helo. Most people thought he was borrrrring, but I just loved him. I loved him for being, in a world otherwise populated by Morally Gray characters, a straight-up Good guy. He reminded me of a well-trained Rottweiler who was a fierce guard dog but very loyal and good to his family.

One scene always stands out in my mind as encapsulating why I loved him. In the scene, his wife Athena is very upset about the disappearance of their daughter and is mentally shutting down and refusing to speak to him. He wants to get through to her and talk to her about what's going on, and he's getting frustrated with her silence.

The way the scene was going emotionally, I was expecting him to get physical with her -- grab her and shake her, or something -- and the actor playing Helo is a very tall, muscular dude and the actress playing Athena is a tall woman but very thin and slight-framed, so any kind of physical threat or gesture on his part would have carried with it a threat of him hurting her. I was dreading this scene becoming a "Helo finally snaps" moment, and when at one point he steps into her personal space, I was like, "Ohhhh no, here we go." But he didn't threaten her at all. IIRC, he broke into tears and just pleaded with her to speak to him.

It just really solidified the character as a truly good-hearted man with good intentions who, even at peak stress, would never hurt the people he loved.

Re: Unpopular characters that you love

[(Anonymous)]

Yes to all of this! Helo was my second favorite character (after Athena).

Re: Unpopular characters that you love

[philstar22]

Helo was great. So was Athena.