*stares* I'd say, "Are you serious?" except I know you are. God. No. I haven't seen the interview, except for maybe five seconds of it where he handed her a cigar. I think I tried to load it on youtube once, but it wasn't working well. I just didn't care enough to try again later. I only knew it happened at all because I read about it on it wikipedia, I think. I was trying to find out more about the character of Tom Zarek around his death and came across the Starbucks-meeting info in reading some about Hatch and some Hatch interviews online at various sites. On one of them that I was looking at, Hatch's initial attitude towards the series compared to Benedict's initial attitude, that Hatch hated it and Benedict supported it, and how each then switched sides and Benedict'd written an article criticizing the show. The only thing I looked up after that was a link to the essay. I had no interest in Benedict himself, as I've never seen anything with him in it and didn't care to; the only other thing I can think of that I saw related to BSG and him at all was that he had attended some cons and talked to fans about things, but there wasn't anything of real interest to me in it.
That was all I knew about him, barring that he's been on Big Brother; if I had known this, I would not have referenced him at all, but the brief description I had read of the Starbucks' meeting portrayed it as having been a positive experience enjoyed by both actors and that Benedict fully supported the show, his opinion only changing after seeing how the first season unfolded. That also influenced my reading of his essay.
My apologies, again, and very sincerely; I had never heard anything about his behavior of this sort, and the impression I had gained from the little I read--which was obviously very biased, at the least--was that his major issue with the show was narrative-related. I found his article to be misogynistic and offensive in parts, yes, but I had no idea that he went to this extent, and I interpreted others parts of the article based on the misinformation I had read to be referring more to the narrative and character-portrayals. Knowing this now, I suspect if I were to reread it now--which I'm not, because I don't need to be annoyed by it again while finding no redeeming features--I would not take things to be commentary and/or referring to the narrative and writing style of BSG as I did on the first read.
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That was all I knew about him, barring that he's been on Big Brother; if I had known this, I would not have referenced him at all, but the brief description I had read of the Starbucks' meeting portrayed it as having been a positive experience enjoyed by both actors and that Benedict fully supported the show, his opinion only changing after seeing how the first season unfolded. That also influenced my reading of his essay.
My apologies, again, and very sincerely; I had never heard anything about his behavior of this sort, and the impression I had gained from the little I read--which was obviously very biased, at the least--was that his major issue with the show was narrative-related. I found his article to be misogynistic and offensive in parts, yes, but I had no idea that he went to this extent, and I interpreted others parts of the article based on the misinformation I had read to be referring more to the narrative and character-portrayals. Knowing this now, I suspect if I were to reread it now--which I'm not, because I don't need to be annoyed by it again while finding no redeeming features--I would not take things to be commentary and/or referring to the narrative and writing style of BSG as I did on the first read.