Lee was never given any sort of decent characterization, sadly. That poor boy has been shoved all over the place. BSG is actually one of the few shows to fall down on characterization of the male of the species.

As I was visiting my parents the past couple months due to health issues, I convinced my father (who has similar tastes in media to mine) to finally watch some of BSG with me.

One of the things that doesn't make the show click for him is just that he remember the original, and it was so campy it hurts his head, kinda, to see this serious drama. Which I get, if roll my eyes at.

But the characterization of the men was something he nailed after only seeing most of the first eight episodes of this season. It drove him nuts, and it drives me nuts too. I like several of the male characters, but I still recognize the problem.

Dirk Benedict, the original Starbuck, was originally all for the re-imagining. But during/near the end of the first season, he wrote and essay about how the men on the show were all emasculated and the women all put into positions of domination over them. (And other things were in the essay too, of course. It's online in whole if anyone's curious.)

I do not agree with everything he wrote, obviously, but he did hit some of the nails on the head, and it makes me sort of sad to see that over the course of the series that part hasn't evolved more.