I just got the urge to write something about Battlestar Galactica.
While the first two seasons are highly watchable they’re also to me written the wrong way. Good shows are about its characters and all the storys evolve from them. A great show also has characters that you start to expect certain behaviour from because they feel like real persons and not just narrative tools.
Season 1 is about the last humans escaping the final extinction of the race. While that’s heavy stuff in itself when well-written all the episodes are self-contained and have little to do with the overall narrative. There are exceptions of course like Helos survival on Caprica. Also there are no characters who feels like persons and while I (in a very manly way) love Bill Adama not even he is especially well-rounded (yet). Almost all the episodes are about external threats that the crew faces and overcomes and those external threats are always Cylons. Yawn.
Now I don’t dislike season 1 but compared to what comes later it really isn’t anything special. Also Laura Roslin is a asshole.
In season 2 the show starts to shape up, more episodes are about conflicts inside the fleet or characters who have internal conflicts. In other words, character drama instead of action drama. They start to touch on different political factions, criminality and they even dedicate an entire episode to Caprica 6 and Boomer. Funny thing that the Cylons are more sympathetic than the president of the colonys. Also that episode about Scar where they realised the Cylons hates them just as much as they hate the Cylons was great. We got to see what a bleak and shitty life the crew on Galactica actually leads and how they risk their lives every single day. Also Baltar is fun as usual, Bill Adama is the manliest man in space and Laura Roslin is a asshole. Fuck you Laura.
Then I started watching season 3 and hot damn, every single episode suddenly has internal conflicts, the characters starts showing real feelings and they explore relationships not only between the crewmembers but also between the different Cylon models and the models starts to show inviduality amongst themselves. Dr Baltar suddenly goes from comic relief to a person searching for a purpose. Even Lee stops being so fucking perfect and behaves like a human being, blemishes and all. While Kara has always been a bit of a bitch here more than ever we’re shown her flaws. I like flaws, flaws is what makes people unique. Bill has flaws in this season too and it’s awesome. They’re no longer the heroes defending the last remnants of humanity, instead they’re just a bunch of assholes doing their best not to fuck up. Glorious. I’ve watched til the episode where Baltar has been reclaimed by Galactica and interrogated but it’s late so I have to sleep soon. :(
Also, fuck you Laura Roslin.
I’ll get to the point. There is no other character I can think of (That is supposed to be on of the good guys) that I hate as much as Laura Roslin, not in any show or movie ever. The main reason is that she believes that everything she does is in fact the only moral and/or right thing to do. If you do no agree with Laura or does something that she does not approve of she WILL look at you above her glasses like you’re a brat who should come to his senses. She does this to absolutely everyone.
As a extension of this, nothing she ever does is in any way wrong. A great example would be when Helo tells her “If you hadn’t lied and stolen our child we wouldn’t be in this situation.” her response is to look at him above her glasses and tell him that while she might be partly to blame the future of humanity now lies in the hands of his and Bills trust in Sharon bla bla bla. As soon as anyone tells her she might have done something wrong she holds a convoluted speech and shifts the blame on someone else. Nothing is ever her fault and she never does anything wrong. Fuck you Laura Roslin. Fuck. You.
To be honest, I was a bit bummed when she survived her cancer. I really wanted her to just die because her mere presence in a scene is often enough to make me pissed. And if she opens her mouth I will more often than not exclaim – yes you guessed it – Fuck you Laura Roslin.
But I guess I got to give the writers their props for writing such a massively flawed human being. I can’t find anything nice to say about her except that she seems to like children and she at least knows what she’s doing as the president. What I don’t get is of course how Bill can like her because she is not a particulary nice person. She is massively judgemental, preachy and often talks like she has a audience, even when only one other person is nearby. I’m trying all I can but I really can’t find a single reason why people would want to hang around her.
In conclusion, fuck you Laura Roslin.
Good article :)
Laura Roslin is truly the most hate-able ‘Good’ character ever, when I see her I start to feel sick I hate her that much.
Season 3 is definitely the best of the 4 seasons, with 4 close behind.
I love your comment!!!!! I hate that Laura bitch soooo muchhh FUCK YOU LAURA ROSLIN!!!!
DIE LAURA BITCH AND WE WILL BE HAPPY PEOPLE DIE!!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE UNIVERSE :D
opps sorry I mean article :) comment is also good ;)
Frak no…FUCK You Madam President Laura Roslin with a piece of rusty barbed wire up the ass. You want to kill the man who saved your life. You stole the child that saved you without any remorse for the damage you did to that loving human/cylon couple. The old man is so wrong in trusting that black bitch. I wouldn’t be shocked if she turned out to be a cylon…ha..ha.
She was white in all the episodes I saw. That’s crazy she was black on your tv
I had forgot how much I disliked Laura Roslin, thanks for reminding me. .p
This bitch needs a fuck so hard that she could not walk or talk after it. Too bad manliest man Bill probably has potency issues.
I just love this article!! And Love the comments. I am really about to have an orgasm. This is been a big relief for me to know that I am not alone in the universe, that I am not the only human being hating this character so fucking much. Thanks brother. I never felt particularly attached to this whole Galactica thing, but watching the episodes I came to hate Laura fucking Roslin from the episode nr 1. I couldnt helped myself. And now… Ohhh! newly thanks my friends.
OMG I love this article!!! Love the comments too..thank you all so much. It feels so good to know there are others who hate this character as much as I do. I am now at the same episode where Baltar is being interrogated…and I really just want her to die. I get sick every time I see her…Laura Roslin FUCKING DIE ALREADY!!!
thank god, I am just now watching this series, in the middle of season 4, and realized, “Laura Roslin is a bitch”. I then typed this into google and this article came up, glad to know this is somewhat of a consensus.
Yes, absolutely, unreservedly, indeed, I’m in agreement on this particular issue. Roslin is indeed, unreservedly, absolutely a bitch, yes.
A moment of relief came in the scene where Adama Sr. was drunk and told her that her death will be “meaningless” and she started crying. I was like “YES, haha, frakk you, Madame Bitch-president!!!!”
I fucking hate Laura Roslin as well. Found this article by googling “Laura Roslin is a bich and I want her to die!’ LOL
Great Articile
Thank you. Reading this has lifted a huge burden off my shoulders. Fuck. You. Madame. President. Laura. Roslin. Fuck You!!!
100% agree. Everytime Rosslin gets shut the fucked up by anyone I cheer. I also get annoyed at Kara for just being a bitch. I think my biggest pet peeve is that she refuses to respond an order of “Report”. Like is it really necessary for her to not report EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMN TIME SOMEONE ASKS? Drives me nuts. Just say SOMETHING, ANYTHING. “Silent heavy raider ahead, gonna check it out” rather than, “Report” “….” “REPORT” “…” “KARA REPORT!” “…” *scene cuts to cylon onboard ship*. Seriously? The potential repurcussions of that are tremendous. Would’ve been nice to see one of the people asking report say, “Shoot Kara’s plane down, she’s been compromised, we can’t trust her to board the ship.” Cause that’s a very reasonable result of not answering to a direct command.
Kara is also very stupid.
In new caprica, she has been keeped in a haus by a man cylon.
He brought a child, who could be also a cylon, but nothing more. He said, this was their child and left the haus.
While he was leaving the haus, stupid Kara said, dont leave me with her alone. It was realy so stupid. Just one of the many examples.
Well, I seriously love Laura Roslin. She’s my favourite character and completely makes the show for me. Almost all of the best scenes have her in them and she’s just frakking awesome :)
Also, this whole article and the comments just show how people are still prejudiced, intolerant and threatened when they are faced with a strong, willful woman in a position of high importance such as the presidency. If it was a man in her place making all the same decisions, arguing all the same opinions and doing all the same things, I definitely think there would be less people who disliked the character.
You sir are and idiot. It’s not about who is making the calls and in charge, it’s about the way she presents herself. She constantly talks down to people, seemingly always sees herself on the moral high-ground, and never admits she’s wrong. She took a child away from a family without reasonable cause due to her paranoia. I’d hate any male character doing this just as much, because if anyone, and I mean ANYONE, talks down to me in real life in the manner that she displays I have the same vehement distaste for them. I’m not prejudiced or a bigot or threatened by a woman in power. Hell, my girlfriend makes more money than I do. Good for her. It’s not about that. It’s about taking responsibility when you frak up, admitting to your wrongs or misgivings. If she had once apologized in the show to the Agathons I wouldn’t hate her half as much. Even that pathetic Dr. Baltar isn’t as detestable as her. I fervently loathe Laura Roslin with an absolutely scathing passion. People like her with no remorse and who don’t feel that they should be held accountable make my skin crawl. RoslinRocks, you are a weak minded person. Good day.
Great, one normal person. Laura is the best
Very nice comment. I think the same way.
I dont know, what could she do, if she would learned that she was a cylon with this pathetic character.
I think she would try the terminate entire human race.
You are probably right to an extent, that being a woman with authority makes Roslin more unrelatable/unlikable to some of us. One of the cool things this show did though was reverse a lot of traditional gender archetypes, like Kara, who kicks ass hard without becoming some grotesque caricature as usually more masculine women are portrayed. So i think you are wrong to say hate for Roslin is all prejudice and intolerance because most of us love Kara. Probably prejudices are what make us feel it is alright to talk about hate for her in such strong terms, and blow minor grievances and flaws out of proportion because we feel a need to knock woman undeserving of authority off her pedestal. Definitely wouldn’t be as many people googling “fuck Lawrence Roslin”, but I think a lot of our points are justified. I just cannot understand her motivations, get into her head and connect with her on an emotional level. However it could very well be we are all just scared intolerant products of our backwards male dominated society. Hillary 2016!!
There’s also Cally, Ellen, Tory, Boomer, Caprica Six and other strong female characters. BSG is full of multi-faceted women yet I only hate Roslin.
You are an idiot, and how? I think you watched the show with your ass.
Seriously? If it was man he would be an asshole but hey because she is women it suppose to be all right she is patronising self righteous cunt with no compassion to others? Oh go fuck your self and take roscuntlin with you.
You realize the show was chock-full for strong women, right? I’d argue Starbuck was a stronger and more central character than Roslin.
Starbuck: Woman? check. Badass? check. Bitch? you bet. Condescending, hateful bag of shit? NOPE.
Do you get the difference between a strong female character and a horrible person? Roslin is the latter and has literally every character flaw I can think of. She is boring, self-righteous, pandering, egotistical, vindictive, self-egrandising and much more.
She’s not even all that horrible in the first half of the series, but then they started devoting whole episodes to her. When she becomes cancer bitch 2.0, all of her shitiness is magnified because I had to see her fucking smarmy, patronizing face ALL THE TIME. She cannot carry the show because in addition to her being a piece of shit, her character is lame.
Again, I hope I’ve made it blatantly obvious this is not an indictment on strong female characters. It’s indictment of Roslin, who seriously ruins the show.
I think the character is amazing, she’s just a terrible human being yet she’s the only one they’ve got. BSG might as well be called “assholes in space” and Roslin is the most flawed of them all.
I also cannot stand Laura Roslin. She is selfish, short-sighted, power-hungry, egotistical, manipulative, divisive, vengeful. She has no self-awareness whatsoever, and thus never grows, never changes, never rises above. She acts not according to truth, but according to an idealism that in her mind placed her above truth. She embodies the absolute worst of humanity, everything that truly dooms this cursed fleet.
Roslin being such a piece of trash is what makes Adama such a great character. His greatest strength is also his most tragic flaw; he trusts the people he loves nearly implicitly.
You are retarded. Stories are not solely driven by characters. It is the culmination of both character and plot meshed homogeneously. I hope you die.
Not that I exepct you to reply;
This is preference of course, all my favourite works are driven by its characters. Plots recquire characters to work even if they take a backseat to it. So if I don’t like the characters I usually don’t like the story either.
Jane Austen is therefore most likely my favourite author. All her books have pretty much the same plot (which also is very thin) yet they’re unique thanks to her amazing characters.
BSG doesn’t have much of a plot either, especially not in the later seasons which are the ones I like the most.
Yup you nailed it, I’ve only been watching BSG for a couple months and I’m at the middle of season 4…. and I always say “Fuck you Laura Roslin”… for all the same reasons you articulately put here. She’s a holier-than-thou judgmental little bitch, it’s fine for all of humanity to run after her visions and her stupid little prophecies but the one time someone comes back with REAL concrete evidence of a higher power (Kara Thrace after her supposed death and her connection with the path to Earth) she immediately get’s butthurt that she’s not at the center of the spotlight and orders Kara to be imprisoned. Also how come no one ever throws her flaws at her face? If I was being judged by that stupid bitch I would tell her to shut the fuck up for reasons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and then call her a bitch while taking sources from actions that clearly make her a cunt.
The one part that infuriated me the most was when she announced she was coming back with cancer during the trial. She was being cross examined and Lee made her speak the truth about one of the many illegal things she did that later covered up while trying to seem like an impartial and centered person. Of course everyone saw at that moment what a total vagina Roslin was, so what does she do? She asks Lee to ask her why she did what she did…. of course Lee is like wtf, because that’s not how trials work bitch, you’re called to the stand, you answer your questions and you stfu. If you wanna indulge yourself with the sound of your own voice you can call a press conference. Well… Lee being the little pushover idiot he is indulges the president and asks her the one question that is totally irrelevant to the case. Laura Roslin then shifts her seat to the jury, and proceeds to speak like she’s doing a fucking press conference (IT’S A TRIAL YOU CUNT, NOT YOUR PERSONAL MARKETING SPOTLIGHT GIG), so of course we find out her cancer is back, “Awwwww”s ensue and everyone forgets that this bitch was being questioned for bending rules for her own profit.
I know Roslin is supposed to be presidential but god damned, she’s like Nixon…. if Nixon was a woman and was on her period 24/7. The woman makes no sense, she hasn’t been doing anything to actually find Earth since season 1, she just walks around judging people, feeling sorry for her own mortality (while dismissively making orders that kill people) and then atributes any progress made on the path to Earth to the prophecy…. of course she’s at the center of the prophecy. I can just see it, they’ll find Earth, Roslin will die of cancer and people will honor her as the leader of humanity that took them to Earth, and I’ll be pissed…. ooooooh boy will I be pissed.
Haha, the show is full of scenes that makes you hate her. I rewatched most of season 1 recently and now I hated her from the very beginning. She’s a holier-than-thou cunt from episode one. Currently referring to her as Cancerbitch whenever she comes up.
:) Cancerbitch, I like that.
I hate the way she always whispers every thing she says
Total agreement!!! Like just fucking talk like we are all adults. She is always whispering like it’s about to be nap time
Watching season 1 for the first time now. Found this by googling “Laura roslin is a fucking bitch”. Hurray that others think the same.
Same here.
wish somebody talks down to her; i mean, really talk her down
I think she just needs to be viciously anal probed to remove that stick up her bum… I think she will enjoy that.
The instant I started hating her was at the end of the second episode. Adama gives the survivors hope, albeit by lying to their faces, and the stupid bitch, instead of being happy that her precious survivors have something to live for, decides to blackmail Adama so that she can be in charge. If I were Adama I would’ve pulled a coup d’etat right then and there. Anyone who cares more about gaining power than the well-being of the people they lead is a tyrant and needs to be put down.
HATE that bitch.
Idiot
Best article ever, I cant describe how much I hate that fucking bitch Laura Roslin. At this point I’m only watch the show in the hope of seeing that whore of babylon die.
Wow such negativity you do know she’s not a real person ?
Well I liked the show and wanted to watch it to the end so having to see her hold judgemental speeches every two episodes made me hate her more than Scientology. In fact I can’t think of a real person that I despise as much as Laura since I usually avoid people that I dislike. Cancer bitch was in my fucking face for over forty hours, she made it personal. :p
i agree with all of you… Laura is a bitch! The main thing that bothers me with her is just that she just do things… crazy things without asking anybody and screwing up plans and shit. Then its the “way of the gods” and really not her fault. I have hard to believe they really elected her in the first place….
Wow, cant believe all the Laura hate here. I think she is a great character. She is one of my favs after Adama, Number 6 and Starbuck.
Seriously. What an arrogant bitch!
die fracking bitch
I wouldn’t even piss on her if she was on fire…
She’s fictional, thankfully, but she was pious fraud who by process of elimination was catapulted into the presidency. Never before in TV have I seen such an outright sanctimonious bitch. Helo, should have wrung her neck for what she did to Hera, to hell with the consequences, heck, when Adama slung her in the brig I was delighted… but… Then, we went from condescending bitch to Martyr Woman. I don’t know what was worse, but, the idea of her being in a cage was excellent.
She claimed as well to be all democratic, but she got her way to the presidency not once, but twice (the second time Tom Zarek was involved in handing it to her IIRC) and she also didn’t even bother to consult with her legislature about anything, and frankly, she was more dangerous IMO to the survival of the few thousand people of the colonies than the Cylons ever were.
I don’t know if we were meant to feel sorry for her when her Cancer returned, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but while I wouldn’t wish cancer on anybody even Madame Bitch, I have to be honest… I really didn’t care either way that she was ill with it.
I have been rewatching the series and she just ruins it for me. I find myself not wanting to watch scenes with her but also want to make sure I don’t miss something I did the first time around.
The thing that makes me rage is how she is always fucking smiling that smug smile. That over the glasses, smug, fake “I am better than all of you” smile. I would enjoy the series much, much more if she didn’t figure in it. There are several annoying people but she ruins it for me.
Yes! exactly you nailed it, I hate the way she smiles all the time. it seems like she is smiling all the time and it’s just so fake and I hate it so much. That fake smile face she does is the most annoying thing I’ve ever seen. I love the show so much that’s awesome alarm as a Bitch!
Ugh thank you, I’ve honestly hated Laura Roslin from day one of the show. The only redeemable thing about her is that she has a semi-romantic relationship with Adama, which is adorable but I still hate her and she’s still an asshole.
“I’ll get to the point. There is no other character I can think of (That is supposed to be on of the good guys) that I hate as much as Laura Roslin, not in any show or movie ever. The main reason is that she believes that everything she does is in fact the only moral and/or right thing to do. If you do no agree with Laura or does something that she does not approve of she WILL look at you above her glasses like you’re a brat who should come to his senses. She does this to absolutely everyone.”
This is totally true and horrible, she is a lousy blame-shifting wench whose actions are guided by her skewed moral compass. She claims to do everything for humanity but she lacks any and all humanity (especially when it comes to any cylons/anyone related to them). In your own words “Fuck you Laura Roslin/Laura Roslin is an asshole”.
She is a fucking bitch… To the point where its hard to watch without throwing my remote at her smug bitch-face.
Great post. Roslin’s hatability begins from the first episode. The gall it takes to assume herself to be the president in this post apocalyptic world where she has no qualifications, nothing to offer at all except her own opinions which of course should mean jack shit. I always thought it was great the way you could kind of tell Adama and especially Admiral Cain were like “…OOOK, you can be ‘president’, but you remember who’s got the nukes” when they first meet her.
Laura Roslin is one of the least relatable characters I have encountered in a show I enjoy so much; I find it much easier to root for the more unambiguously “bad” characters like Zarik, Ty and especially Gaius. I think you nailed it, she is such a preachy, self-important, hypocrite who sees everything as black and white and never questions her own motives. she also never seems to struggle with any decision like shes the fucking messiah.
I love the part of the show where Adama asks “do we deserve to survive?” saying they need to live up to their humanity… I think Roslin needed to ask herself “do I deserve to make decisions for anyone? clearly the answer is no, it is debatable whether she should be allowed to make decisions for herself. In a real life BSG situation I would hail dear leader Adama, I kind of wish the show had explored this issue instead of defaulting to (fake) democracy = good. I think Roslin is the Dubya of the 12 colonies, sort of fell into power and followed ridiculous religious nonsense while everyone knew who really had the power (lucky for BSG they had the benevolent Adama and not Darth Cheney).
Anyway, yeah totally agree this show was at its best when the inner struggles of characters and their relationships drove the action. The show suffered when they tried to have these stand alone episodes where they invented a character or threat that lasted for an episode (the hostage situation, the black market episode, the one with the engine room guy commander {who gives a shit if he sacrifices himself, you invented him at the beginning of the episode}) I wish they realized the characters they had were enough to keep us interested even if there weren’t life or death moments on every episode.
Thanks for the post, even though it is a few years old I needed to vent some frustration with this show…
Fuck Laura Roslin
so hard
It’s cool, I’m really glad it did something for you, it’s why I have a blog instead of a diary.
I started rewatching the show and found myself hating her again from episode one. A school-teacher preaching for one of the highest military leaders in a galactic community spanning 12 planets. Preposterous to say the least.
And while cancer is something to be taken very seriously she decides it makes her special and gives her opinions more merit because she’s DYING (T_T). My grandmother died in cancer, she didn’t say a word about her disease and just fought on. I actually hate Roslin more now for the above reasons.
cholerna suka
Fuck laura roslin
Season 4 Episode 3. Hard to believe that Roslin can be any more self-righteous, condescending, ruthless, duplicitous, manipulative, deluded, and self-serving than she already has been in previous episodes. But here we are…. She really is convinced that she is the instrument and mouthpiece of her Gods and if anyone contradicts her they should be tossed out of an airlock. A superb study of a ultra-pious religious zealot.
i just wanted to say Fuck you Laura Roslin
I just skip the part when she talks cause it’s just not bearable for me anymore. I thought I was the only one hating her so much, googled ” I hate President Laura Roslin” and got here. Omg I just love internet for that kind of pleasures :D
The only thing I hated about this show was that I hate to wait until the last episode for her to die. When she had her temporary recovery, I cursed.
Amen brother! I hate that flying thundercunt Laura Roslin. My wife gets really annoyed with me because every time we sit and watch the show together, here comes Mrs. Manipulative Self-righteous Bitch Roslin and ruins the scene with her smug face and shitty personality. Honestly though, I don’t think the writers intended her to be so fucking detestable, I think she was meant to be one of the “good guys” but the actress totally ruins it with her shitty delivery.
Sorry, in my moment of fury I forgot to finish my train of thought about me cursing at the TV whenever Roslin shows. Diediediediedie
Watched the series for the first time. Can’t she just fucking die?
She messes everything up for everyone, again and again.
She thinks her ‘visions’ that lead the fleet to shitty hell holes are divine, and thinks everyone else who has visions deserves to be executed…
She actually tried to kill Kara, kidnapped a baby, summarily executes a fuck ton of people then blames Baltar for signing a death warrant at gun point. What a complete cunt.
Laura Roslin rocks bitches.She’s an awesome,strong woman and a wonderful leader,she has her defects,obviously,but just ’cause in BSG there aren’t characters whitout defects.I think the people who hate her are just too dumb to understand her,luckily i’m not one of them ;) So Say We All!
Just fuck off with that shit. Roslin sucks. So say we all!
I think most of us understand her just fine, we just can’t stand her self-righteous blather. There’s a lot of strong female characters with issues in BSG. Take Ellen for example. She’s “chaotic neutral” from the very start and it’s rather obvious she does everything for her own or Sauls sake. Laura on the other hand is just as selfish and full of shit but pretends otherwise. It’s this, that she can’t admit that she sometimes is at fault or is talking out of her ass that pisses me off. Basically she has one of the character traits that I hate most of all. It has nothing to do with understanding her and everything to do with taste. I cannot fucking stand holier-than-thou attitudes under any circumstances and it defines Laura Roslin. So fuck her. Fuck Laura Roslin.
The episode where she was the worst to me. Is the labor union one.
The entire episode she’s the horrible bitch just happily going about expecting people to do shit jobs without anyone caring about them or the conditions they’re working in, and gets horribly offended by anyone arguing that things get made a bit safer.
And it was like the writers couldn’t think of how to have her turn around on the issue that was disgustingly plain in how simple it was, and so they just go “welp now she’s in favor of unions” at the very end.
When they initially wanted to bargain she’s going about throwing people in the brig or just wanting them dead, and it’s only after she got what she wanted that she deigns to listen.
I suppose the thing that really gets me though, is her character was meant to have originally been a teacher, and here she was arguing that it was perfectly fine for people to just be stuck with their parent’s life, kinda pissing all over the idea of being able to go to school to learn something you wanted.
It probably doesn’t help that it’s the same episode you get more of Baltar being the pitiable soul who is hated by everyone that doesn’t want to imagine themselves in his shoes, so having Roslin being so uncaring for the lives others are leading just came out as just that much more despicable.
Came here right after watching that exact episode. Season 3 had been going okay with her character until episode 16 when Laura’s smugness creeps back into the series. I thought the ending to the episode was terrible: it makes me hate Chief, Adama, and Laura. Each of them made bad decisions and showed they had no strong position or feelings on anything. The only one that stood by his morals in the episode was Gaius Baltar.
Gaius Baltar was the star of the whole series as far as i’m concerned. Everyone else was a prop.
I agree completely. In addition to being a cunt-faced, beady-eyed, dumpster-fuck of a human, she is a hateful, fakey, self-satisfied bag of smegma.
She’s dead-certain she’s right 100 percent of the time, acts like a complete bitch to all the people who have fought, bled for her and/or are supportive of her dipshit religious agenda. She does all this, instead of just being fucking dead-dead, which would have been the highlight of the show. Never has cancer been such a potential hero.
My hate for this uber-bitch culminated when Chief Tyroll (sp?) asked her to reconsider handing Boomer over to the Cylons to be executed. She doesn’t hear him out at all, instead opting to stare over her glasses like an absolute shot bird and admonish the Chief for being so bold to disagree with her. Of course, she did far worse but her level of cuntiness in that scene stuck with me.
So glad she’s dead, if it had happened in S1 would have made a phenomenal show that much better.
How could the same writers script someone as wonderfully complex as Gaius Baltar and someone as one dimensional as Laura Roslin?
How could the same casting director choose the Gaius and Laura actors? They are a lifetime apart in talent.
If i ever met Laura Roslin with that smug grin and those smug glasses and the smug hair I would rip off my arm just to have something to hit her with….
A lifetime apart in talent. That sums up the entire series. “There is this guy named Baltar who shows you so many dimensions you feel you are seeing acting for the first time in your life. Then there is this smuggy ex teacher who has about as much depth as a Caprican church communion cracker. They repeat this dynamic for 4 seasons with some others character mixed in while in space. You have just watched BSG in 26 seconds.
I strongly disagree that Laura Roslin does no wrong.
She’s the prime example of a fascist. Bill Adama likes her, because he’s hardly a figurehead for civil rights, he’s a military autocrat that wouldn’t piss on a constitution or a bill of rights if it were on fire – if they even have that in the 12C.
Why is LR even president after New Caprica anyways? She sure as fuck wasn’t vice president, did I miss the elections?
But then again, pretty much every single character in that show is highly unlikeable.
Starbuck is just a loose cannon who has nothing to fear because she’s the Red Baron of space, and she abuses that priviledge to no end. Especially in a caste world such as the 12C where millions better than her don’t even get her first chance because they weren’t born on Caprica. Yet she gets a thousand chances, and it’s stretching it to call them that because ultimately they’re not chances because you can blow chances. She just gets to act that way period
I realize as I’m writing this the only character I like is the XO. He’s the most believable character, he actually has integrity (at least more than Adama does, which is not exactly hard) and he’s down to earth. So at S04E04 I’m done with the show.
Even the nameless marines piss me off, more violent than a planet Earth cop with a drinking problem on a very bad day.
The point was that I hate Roslin because she believes she can do no wrong. And yeah, they’re all assholes which is glorious. Starbuck gets a million chances because there’s barely anyone left to pilot a Viper and she’s THE BEST. Saul is a loud drunkard, Apollo has his moral superiority complex etc. You love the characters (except Roslin obviously) because of their flaws, not despite them. ;)
Apollos morality hat ended when he tried to rasionalize the cylon genocide.
Stupid Apollo.
I believe in the system, I believe on the system.
I fuck your system.
Thank you for making me feel like I’m not alone! I fucking hate Laura Roslin with a passion. I love the battlestar galactica tv series and after watching blood and chrome i decided to watch the series again.
Enjoying every bit and then here comes the first scene with Laura Roslin finding out she has cancer and i audibly groaned. I can’t believe i forgot about this bitch. Is anybody has ever deserved cancer its her. She’s right up there with Hitler on my list. :)
I can’t stand laura roslin. She talks about being SO religious and being the prophet, blah balh balh, and yeah her cancer was ahem NATURAL and GOD GIVEN, but oh hey wait, let’s use sharon and helo’s fetus (who she wanted to kill, but changed her mind–conveniently and selfishly–when it suited her own needs) to treat her cancer. if she’s so religious, she should have jsut accepted her cancer, died, and BSG would be better for it cuz she would be off’ed in season 2. but instead, she chooses to steal the baby and fake its death so sharon and helo don’t know. laura needs teh baby alive, of course, because who doesn’t want a biological medicine cabinet at their disposal?
i don’t know how i can suffer 2 more seasons with roslin. i’m just going to fast forward all her scenes. i really give it to teh writers, one of the most despicable two faced characters ever created. she should have died from cancer in season 2. i was actually looking forward to taht, and thinking OMG YES, GOODBYE ROSLIN!!!!! GOODBYE!!! GOOD-…AWWWW FRAK SHE”S NOT GONNA DIE
Ah but she is, just keep watching and eventually you’ll get to see her take her last breath.
The way she ends conversations with “Thank you gentlemen, that would be all,” when she is about to lose the argument. That manipulative bitch didn’t deserve to survive the Cylon attack in the first place, not to mention the episode when she almost died, BUT THEN SHE DIDN’T.
The scene I hate most is when they evacuate from new caprica, RL walk into the plane, sitting behind the desk, make her usual pose, then said”now, I am ready”… I was speechless,what a frakking bitch, you are just a former president, frak
I came here to find out if I was the only one who can’t stand that fucking laura roslin, glad to see I am not
Fuck you Laura Roslin ! Im currently rewatching the series and I must say I just cant stand that self righteous bitch. I had forgotten how much I hated her but it just came right back. When they called for reelection, she was actually mad as if her presidency was her god given right and it shouldnt be questioned. The nerves, who do she think she is ! The way she always smiles like shes watching children figuring out things she already knows. Theres one scene when shes in the background with that stupid smile on her face that made me think that the problem is that the actress actually believe that she is worthy of being a president and happy to finally be recognized for it. I hate this character so much.
Having finished watching the final episode tonight, I found this article by typing “I dislike Laura Roslin” into Google and seeing what comes up. It’s no exaggeration to say that her character has forever tainted Battlestar Galactica for me.
In some series there’s a character that you don’t particularly like because they’re simply not a very nice person. My loathing or Roslin goes far further than this – she sucked the life out of every scene she appeared in. She wasn’t just an antagonist, she made the show WORSE than it should have been by slowly…. trying… to… get…. her…. self…. righteous…. point…. across… in…. the….most….cringe worthy…..way…..
It takes a unique kind of person to harm what is otherwise a fantastic show. Congratulations Roslin, you’ve done just that.
Man someone had to anal frak that Dick Licking Laura Fracking Roslin. I am in the verge of Season 3 and here she is fracking with everything. FUCK YOU LAURA ROSLIN.
Every time she is on screen I suffer.
Fuck Laura Roslin!
I guess if I were drunk and otherwise out of my right mind I’d fuck Laura Roslin :)
There’s tons of beautiful women on Galactica, hell I’d rather have sex with Bill than that hag!
She is a bitch, this is a clear thing. But we must also ask, why? Why there is a character like Roslin?
She represents the authority. Since when I dont know but, the one who want to search, can look, why the old kings or quens must be the face of the god on earth? The authority had allways used this weaknes of the people against them. The believers, they are naive people. Tell them, you are a messiah then rule this stupid crowd.
Battlestar Galactica is a very very nice show. I like it very much, but we must also see, they give subcontiosly some messages.
1. Religion can be right. (All the concept based on this)
2. The system is good, we must belive on system. (Apollos speeches)
3. Adama und Adama’s son had rulled the both ships. Which is stupid. The writers had elliminated all other characters, who could lead the Pegasus. I am just thinking, why is that? Like a kingdom, you get the throne from your father. I dont like this.
4. They present Roslin as a bitch with a purpose, to give the people this message: You mortals, you can not understand the leading. Maybe it seems unpleasant and bad but we (the rulers) are the good guys and we work for the folk, for you, even we dont thik ourself but you. (Somehow Roslin is cancer and finds such a motivation to lead the people and makes many unpleasent decisions, which we all hate her, but somehow she is the right person, she decides right, because the wrighter wants this)
To summrise, she is a bitch and she is not right. How can you find right to genocide an entire race, bitch? Fascist.
But Roslins entire character is a fish out of water thing, at least initially. I think she’s supposed to be relatable and down to earth but they made her TOO unsympathetic. You always understand why Roslin does the things she does, it’s just that she can never admit she’s wrong even when she fucks things up.
I don’t hate her because she makes the tough decisions. Adama and Saul does as well and I love Adama. I hate Roslin because she believes she is always right and talks down to people who don’t agree with her in a way that a parent might talk to a small child. She’s a holier-than-thou fascist cunt and I’m glad she died of cancer.
Yes, this is true. She is just very unsympathetic :)
Very very very unsympathetic.
Another thing, i must also say this, the best character in the show: Karl Agathon. You are the best.
Is it Just me or has anyone else found that her face just looks like a fucking Toilet???? Every single thing about that cunt makes me hate her soo much honestly ive never hated anyone so much
ew you guys are so hateful and have failed to consider a shit-ton of things.
For one, Laura Roslin never aspired to be president. She didn’t even want to be a politician at all, it just sort of happened after //her entire family was killed//. She became president because after all the many deaths, she was the next in line. Was she qualified? Hell no. But was there anyone left who was? If there was, she wouldn’t have had to be sworn in. She’s a natural born leader who doesn’t second guess herself. She took charge when nobody else would, even though it frightened her and there was literally nothing to be gained by being president. No white house, no money. There was power, sure, but as I said she never wanted that, and it’s not like they were in a time of peace; the fate of humanity rested on her shoulders. Who wants that? Besides, martial law is NEVER a good thing, so somebody had to step up and lead the civilian government. Laura Roslin was the closest to “qualified” that they had, especially because she worked so closely to Richard Adar and, however much of an idiot he was, she learned a lot about what it takes to be president from working with him.
Another complaint I’m seeing is that she’s a heartless bitch. Can we just. . .? This woman was a schoolteacher, she loves children (and Billy can we mention Billy for a moment), she’s obviously the motherly type and cares about her people //somuch//. What does she have to live for? She’s dying of cancer, she lost her family even before the attack – she doesn’t have jack shit but do you know what she does with the time she has left? Devotes every minute of it to ensuring that humanity survives. Does she trick Helo and Athena into thinking their child was dead? Yes. Was that morally wrong? Probably. And you can see that it upsets her. But what was she supposed to do? Let a Cylon, who nobody /really/ trusted at the time, raise the key to the future of possibly both races? Hell no. //But she didn’t kill it//. She was willing to, if it came to that, but she didn’t. And when she tossed Leoben out the airlock after promising his safety? That was the smart decision. Laura Roslin is not a heartless bitch; she has found a way to separate her emotions from the decision making process (for the most part). That is a /good/ thing. Adama frequently lets his emotions cloud his judgement, and for that he gets patted on the back while Roslin gets shit on. That makes absolutely no sense to me. He’s the one who convinced her not to steal the election. She would have forced herself to go through with it if it wasn’t for him (don’t get me wrong, Adama is my #1 fav character, but he has some flaws of his own.) Sure, she’s religious (and turns out to actually not be insane but totally legit) but that’s not her emotions; she’s using logic to determine if the scrolls of Pithia actually will lead them to Earth. She wasn’t biased towards or against religion (quite refreshing actually) and her logic led her to believe that religion would lead them to Earth.
People are also upset that Roslin is arrogant and never admits that she’s wrong. All right, Roslin is a bit arrogant. Yes, I see that. She assumes that she knows how to make the right decisions from the very beginning and that didn’t sit well with me at first, because she obviously doesn’t. Or at least, she shouldn’t. But she kind of does? She’s logical, rational, but at the same time caring and compassionate. It’s almost like she was -gasp- /born/ for the role. And Roslin /does/ admit when she’s wrong. She admits that it was a mistake for her to let her morals take precedence over what was right when she didn’t steal that election. She admits that, and doesn’t pass the blame off on Adama or anyone else. She does not, however, admit that she’s wrong when she doesn’t believe that she was. That’s the logic in her, and perhaps a bit of pride. It’s just the way her brain works. She’s not biased towards her own decisions or anyone else’s; when she looks at issues she is completely objective. The fact is, she sees most of her decisions as right. She takes advice from other people and admits when she needs help (asking Apollo for military advice, always asking daddy Adama for his opinion, etc.) but she’s also stubborn when she believes she’s right and while that can get troublesome, I think that’s a great quality for a president to have. If you can prove that she made a mistake, I believe she’d be open to admitting she was wrong. The fact is, there is so much grey in Battlestar Galactica that it’s hard to tell if she really did make the right decision. That’s why she doesn’t second guess herself. It would probably drive her insane if she did, and if you remember, Adama didn’t second guess himself either. Not publicly, anyways, except perhaps during the whole New Caprica ordeal. But when the two of them are alone together with each other or people they trust, their walls fall a little and you can see what’s really going on underneath.
I’m just not understanding all the Laura Roslin hate? These little scenes you guys are pointing out that annoy you so much aren’t even the parts of Roslin’s character that annoyed me. When they called for reelection, she wasn’t mad that her presidency was being questioned oh for the love of God. She was upset because they already had enough to deal with without worrying about elections and new presidents. Laura Roslin was a big fan of democracy and the current system of government, if you recall. She admits that Apollo was right even though she doesn’t like it (and Bill Adama doesn’t either let’s take that into account too shall we) and they have the frakking election. Self-entitelment is not a thing concerning Laura Roslin. By the time reelection is called she is already getting comfortable in her position; they don’t have time to train someone else to make the kind of calls she has to make, to see things from all perspectives.
When she got on Colonial One and sat down and said “Now I’m ready,” that wasn’t her being a self-entitled bitch. It was pretty widely accepted at that point that everyone wished Roslin had remained president. She wished she was president; what the hell is wrong with wishing she was back in the presidency? Even Tom Zarek was totally cool with the idea of her getting onto Colonial One, of it being “her” ship. If he couldn’t be president, well, it better be her (in his mind). She belongs in the presidency, plain and simple. While it wasn’t so clear at the very beginning of the show and Roslin’s confidence got under my skin, at that scene it was very, very clear. She was relieved at finally being back where she belonged. It was like home to her. How can you use that as a way to take a jab at her?
All these other little scenes and quirks you all pointed out are too frivolous for me to even waste my energy on. I haven’t even gone into how strong Roslin is for dealing with Cancer and leading the people, and then her relationship with Adama is just superb and beautifully written. But I’ve written enough. I know that this post was written a while ago but hopefully someone will read this and understand how frakking awesome Laura Roslin is.
Thank you.
Laura is a really well-written character, no doubt about that, but all characters are flawed in BSG and Roslin is among other things self-righteous and believes her way is always the right one. She treats all the remaining humans like her little school-class, certain everything would go to hell without her. That’s why we hate her, she’s smug as hell and the only people she respects are the Adamas and for a time Balthar.
I just have this giant soft spot for this character, for some reason. It would be a lot easier to take her than to defend my love for this character, that’s for sure, haha. I guess I just see her as super logical and objective, and I absolutely love that. To me she doesn’t seem to place a higher level of importance on herself because she wants to feel important, she just sees that that’s how it is and she doesn’t back away from it just because it’s herself and not somebody else. Does that make any sense? She’s just extremely objective and unbiased, to the point where it seems like she’s arrogant and self-rightous as hell.
Although yeah, she does seem to think that everything would go to hell without her. I won’t deny that. In the beginning it annoyed the hell out of me, but I think she kind of earned the right to mindset? Especially after New Caprica. Not to say I don’t wish that she didn’t have it at all, just. . . yeah.
I think the reason I love her so much is that I sort of see a little Aspie in her? As an Aspie myself, I’m objective and logical to the point where people get seriously pissed with me. Maybe I’m imagining it in Laura? I dunno, haha, but somehow I see /something/ in her that appeals to me.
She is very very logical. She lost her family and then started politics, she learned that she was cancer then she started to lead people. Very logical indeed :)
O yea yea yea, she didn’t want to be president, just god wanted to make her president. Old lies and cliches.
I am your king and your gooooddddd.
I don’t like such people. Liars need stupid people. Both of them are dangerous for the society.
Funny to compare her to medieval kings but I can see it!
The funny things were real for many people. And she had been presented just with the same idea. She was cancer etc.
lol she doesn’t think she’s a king or a god. She does think that the gods put her where she is, but that is a theme in the entire show and as I said, it’s not her arrogance or self-rightousness, it’s her complete and total objectiveness. She /literally/ sees herself and everyone else as chess pieces on a chess board; if it was anyone else being “put on a throne” or whatever, she would have been just as accepting.
Please try to understand me. I didn’t said she was a king or she wanted to be king. They live in an other century. The logic behind is the same.
You say she accepted being leader, which is wrong. How many times she tried to be president. This is not accepting smth.
The comparison is that medieval kings also claimed god gave them their power. While Roslin may not believe so herself she doesn’t deny it either and a lot of people belives she is chosen. And I think part of Trishas point is that Roslin might not want the presidency but thinks she’s the only person fit to be.
And I also have aspergers but my favourite character is Admiral Adama *salutes* who’s a big snuggly bear, he cares so much about Lee and Starbuck that his judgement gets hampered by it.
My favourite female character is Ellen, she truly loves Saul and does everything she can to help him (and of course herself). I suppose I like her frankness, she’s rather unsympathetic but doesn’t pretend otherwise while Laura always believes she has the moral highground even when she lies and manipulates.
According to film which is man made, she believes that she fit it and god gave her it. According to our experience in real world, this is bullshit.
I like Adama too. He is like a father for all. He shouldn’t kill Gaita, this was his biggest fault in my oppinion. He could send him to prison.
Lora has nothing with high moral values. She tried to change election results, she accepted to genocide Cylons, which can not be accepted. And many more things can be mentioned.
From my perspective the best character is Karl Agarton. He went behind to be just a human. How many people can do, what he have done?
As a woman character I think 6 would be the best one or Athena. About Helen what you said is not bad. But I personally wouldn’t do what she have done. For only one person what she have done is not acceptable.
I think you’re confusing nicest with most interesting. :p I think Agaton is a bit of a bore. Ellen is a pretty awful person but she has enough motivations for her actions to make her interesting. Same with, uh, pretty much the entire cast tbh. Peoples favourite characters seems to be the ones who gets on their nerves the least!
He is boring according to film. Like also most of the philosophs. Thanks to them we are better than before. Not because of some very important general. Nice people change the world with their thougts, important people for that time just rules. And mostly they rules with old fashioned methods. Which makes people suffer.
Absolutely, I’d much rather eat dinner with the Agathon family than anyone else in BSG, he’s one of the few decent guys after all. Then again, people voted on Obama partly because he seems like such a great guy but while being nice makes you a better leader, you need leadership skills to begin with. (Not saying anything about Obamas leadership skills, I’m swedish so I don’t know anything about that)
Lee Adama is probably the best leader in BSG.
@Aferandox I think your disdain towards Laura Roslin is not because of who she is as a person, but because you personally are not religious and seeing a religious character in a seat of power is unsettling to you. She did not lie to her people or use them to retain power for her own sake; when she allowed Tory to rig the election, it was because she knew New Caprica was going to be a disaster, and guess what? It was. Roslin honestly cares for her people and wants the best for them, that much is obvious; even if she goes about it in a slightly arrogant way. She doesn’t let her religious beliefs stand in the way of what needs to be done for the fleet, and she certainly doesn’t let her love of democracy stand in the way of the fleet’s survival. During a time of war, a “benevolent dictator” is sometimes needed; waiting for every commoner in the fleet to vote on every issue simply won’t do. Also, you seem to like characters based on how “good” they are. If that’s the case then I’m not entirely surprised that you don’t like Roslin, but love Helo.
@skrotkanon I’m not sure why you think Roslin is corrupt? Nothing she does is for herself, except when she gets close with Adama and threatens to blow up the ship because they told her he was dead. Everything she does, no matter how immoral, is for her people. She does the “smart” thing, instead of the “right” thing, or, tries to. She struggles with these concepts throughout the entire series, but she gets better at separating the two, IMO.
Also, during Baltar’s Trial (i’m assuming you meant Baltar’s), when she said she had cancer, I believe you’re looking at it the wrong way. Apollo accused her of getting high for no reason other than to retain her religious role and remain popular with the religious people of the fleet. If you were cornered like that, your reputation about to be tarnished, wouldn’t you want to defend yourself by explaining that the reason you were taking Chamalla was not for political, religious, or selfish reasons but because you were dying of cancer? She wasn’t trying to draw emotion out of the crowd; she didn’t even want to admit that to anyone yet. Apollo forced it out of her (unknowingly, of course). Why do you think everybody got so mad at him after that?
(I am also just thinking out loud at this point, haha)
But how could she know? She just assumes her way is the best and sure, with hindsight it sometimes is but her whole “Mother knows best”-schtick is exactly what people hate about her. Adama also makes hard decisions but he’s not a dick about it and doesn’t hold speeches about how right he is. Roslin is a great character but an awful person, just so goddamn awful. She probably has good qualities but while for you her good overshadows her bad, it’s the opposite for me.
It’s like, Balthar is a coward and a narcissist but I still love him. Roslin has all the character traits I dislike the most in a person and so I hate her. I still refer to her as cancerbitch, years after I’ve seen the show because all her scenes makes me seethe, and I’m known as a guy who never ever gets angry or makes a fuss, least of all over a character on a show. But she makes my blood goddamn boil! xD
xD don’t worry, I’ve found characters like that too! Umbridge in Harry Potter, and Ward in AoS. Even in the beginning, when everybody liked him, just looking at Ward’s face made me want to punch a wall (or, preferably, his face). So i totally get how you feel, and I see where you’re coming from about Laura, haha :P
Agree to disagree then! This small, small corner of the internet is for those who find her insufferable. We don’t have anything against the character, just the person ;)
this must be what it feels like when two people on the internet agree to disagree
i expected rainbows and shooting stars
Not being assholes isn’t exactly grounds fot celebration :p
Ah, I see. Sorry, your point flew straight over my head, haha. But I still don’t understand why accepting being leader is wrong? Or that the gods gave her power? I mean I see the danger there, but as far as I can tell she never used to religious role as an excuse to do whatever she wanted. Besides, she was next in line for the presidency, after all, so she had the right to carry out Adar’s term. And she turned out to be pretty good at it too, no matter how much people dislike her.
@skrotkanon Yes Adama is totally my #1 favourite character, and I do really love Ellen too (although there are some moments I want to strangle her). I only mentioned Asperger’s (I’m also INTJ btw) because Laura’s logical/objective side just appealed to me //somuch// and I figured I should give some explanation for that. :P But I dunno. I agree Laura’s not exactly a likable character (except when she gets all cute with Adama) but she just has certain qualities about her that I really love, even more than I hate her arrogance.
Problem is not being a leader, but how you become a leader. Are you honest or not to the people is important. According to film Rosa has the right. According to real life and our experience, she is a liar. :)
I think you have the right idea. She’s corrupt but rationalises it away. People love the guy in House of Cards because he’s straight about his corruption, he knows he’s the bad guy. Roslin also cheats and lies but believes she’s the hero. Of course, she’s far from Francis Underwood but corruption is corruption.
I think people hates what she represents; Politicians who always think their way is the best for everyone else.
I don’t think, all politicians believe that their way is the best. The thing is getting the power. They are the slaves of power. That is why they tell lies. Because most of them know what the majority wants to hear. And they tells people those lies.
Honest politicians try to change the society in a good way for everyone, liars use the people to get the power. That is why you cannot see charlatans dead, but only revolutionists, like Che Guevera. All the papsts wear gold throne in a world with full of suffers. How that can be acceptable. That is why I am not religious.
No not all politicians do, people just hate the ones who do. Just look at Michelle Obama and her attempt to make school-lunches healthier. People goddamn hate it because who is she to decide what teenagers should eat? Her intentions are certainly good but just like with Laura Roslin, it doesn’t matter. Holier than thou-types gets on peoples nerves. (I’m basicly thinking loud at this point!)
It’s just taste, she makes my blood boil which I can’t exactly help!
But if you want an example there’s her trial where she goes “I have cancer!” to make her seem sympathetic so she won’t have to take responsibility for her actions.
“She’s a natural born leader who doesn’t second guess herself.”
So is Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jung Il, Fidel Castro…
Many would say to have wisdom requires deep introspection into ones actions and decision making methods…
but for Trisha, that would be an undesirable trait, “second guessing”.
Trisha is also a hypocritical simpleton oblivious to her own double standards. She states it’s “probably” morally wrong to have Sharon and Helo be told that their baby is dead, after kidnapping that baby and utilizing it for your own purposes. Yet I strongly suspect that were the sane thing done to Trisha, she would not be downplaying the morality issue by using a “probably” euphamism. Trisha would most likely be suing the entire hospital chain in a multi million dollar lawsuit and heavily playing the morality card aggressively to the jury.
Ah, but Trisha is a Roslin lover… and such types are always willfully oblivious to the hypocrisy of their actions.
Trisha, you are a troll. The blog title is very clear. One wouldn’t even typically find this blog without the certain key phrases, including Roslin bitch, sucks, etc.
Why are you even here? Go to the love Roslin pages.
Ugly double standard hypocritical troll. I suppose that is redundant, since that’s what trolls are. Now do take a look at yourself in the mirror and get off your high horse.
Also, starting a comment with “ew all this hate” just further cements what a judgmental prick you are. You are judging real people for judging a fictional character, and your opening argument is “ew”.
Brilliant😂🌺
Laura roslin has one facial expression, that fake ass political smile. She uses it when she is flirting. She uses it when she is happy. She uses it when she is being a twisted sadistic fracker. She uses it when she is talking down to her subordinates. She uses it when she is barking orders. She uses it when she handles the media. She uses it when making a campaign speech.
AND ITS FRACKING CREEPY AS HELL. Seriously this women is a damn sociopath. I think X.O Tai hit the nail on the head when he told her “Sometimes I cant tell if you have ice water in your veins or if your just naive as hell”.
The worst part about her character is that she probably gets more face time then any other character in the show. And the more shes on screen, the more I fracking hate her guts. Vile women with snakes in her fracking vag.
Yeah I agree. She has that fake political smile when she is…
1) Terrified
2) Sad
3) Condescending
4) Patronizing
5) Happy
6) Flirty
7) Joyous
8) Excited
9) Irritated
10) In the face of death itself.
You cant really blame the writers for facial expression. The writers actually did a good job with the character imho. She is a women who is in over her head but puts fear and doubts aside for the sake of the human race. She feels humanity needs a strong leader and she feels its her duty to step into that role.
A protagonist doesnt have to be logically, morally, and ethically perfect. In fact thats rarely the case. More often then not Laura Roslin is morally an antagonist, using veiled threats, conspiracies and plots behind a fake smile for in her own mind whats best for the future of the fleet.
Shes a condescending cunt who should be vented out of an airlock above a planet in a space suit so she burns to death on re entry. I love BSG and watched the originals too and she is the most annoying self righteous twat with a face like a dried up prune. Kissing her would be the same as kissing Adamas asshole.
If I was Baltar on New Caprica I would have had her tortured and killed. She is the cunty type who doesnt remember he didnt actively get her killed and out of the way which is a fucking shame mind.
I guess I didn’t watch the same show. I just see her a another flawed person amongst all those other flawed people. She isn’t anymore condescending or any more a bitch than say Helena Cain or Ellen Tigh. I find that all the women but for the Sixes to be bitches at times.
I think the difference is that Ellen isnt on a high horse all the time, believing she can do no wrong. And Helena is a villain so she’s probably not meant to be all that sympathetic
I made a meme for this, but I don’t think site supports embedded images. But here anyways:
https://imgflip.com/i/r6fp5
was sure i wasnt the only one to hate her!
perhaps its her acting, or part of the secret of writing tv series to have such a hate-able character! indeed, fuck you laura roslin
Bill Adama = Badass man among men who sees his flaws but works to overcome them.
Laura Roslin = DUMB ASS BITCH
Laura Roslin loves children so much she plans to commit infanticide against Sharon and Helo’s child; something she only backs away from when she realises the child’s bloood can save her life. She claims killing the baby is the only way to safeguard the fleet because “something was odd about the child’s bloodwork”. What kind of reasoning is that? The first human cylon hybrid ever has medical anomolies therefore the child will grow up and destroy humanity…!?! When she realises she can use the baby as a chemo drip she discards any concern about the long term safety of the fleet and switches to child abduction instead.
She is the most dishonest character in the show – far more so than Leoben. She always claims the moral high ground and yet never hesitates from lying. She seems to literally float through scenes in some kind of religious ecstasy. Throughout the entire show she has a fetish for flinging people out of airlocks. Whenever questioned over her war crimes she weasles out of them with feeble excuses. I get that moral ambiguity is interesting, but she is just so fundamentally corrupt and so unapologetic.
Well said.
Nicely put👍
I thought i was the only one who hated her so much. Evil person from the start
Loved the comment ‘Arseholes in Space’, lv Battlestar, but there are only two decent human beings/cylons in the entire series, Sam & Helo….the rest are all full of so much hate and ready to kill people they supposingly love when they find out they are cylons. Kill a baby just in case, and no-one battering an eye. They are not just flawed, they are murderous, power hungry assholes, who are ready to kill when they don’t like someone that day. Laura from the start was the most evil psycho character. Such a relief to know I’m not the only one who finds this character the most hateful.
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
I am on my 4th rewatch of BSG. I just got to when Athena first meets Roslin. Up until that point she was just corrupt and manipulative and fit the politician role well. Her meeting with Athena felt like a tipping point where she finally crosses the “evil” threshold. There is that moment when she says she beliefs Athena is in love with Helo, then she casually talks about how she threatened to kill Helo to ensure cooperation. WTF Roslin?
The only two TV characters that I hate with a passion are Laura Roslin and Skyler White. I don’t know which one of them are worse. I had to skip their scenes whenever possible. In Laura’s case, she just completely ruined the show for me.
I found this article by typing “Laura Roslin Sucks” into google.
Thank you for saying what I am thinking. Part way into season 3 here and I hate Laura Roslin.
Also hate Baltar why couldn’t they just kill him?
Baltar is just a egocentric coward, but at least he’s funny with it. :p
I guess he is. I do grin when he is on screen with 6 and stuff happens. He is funny, but he gets away with so much stuff. It was him that stranded them on New Caprica and imprisoned everyone wasn’t it? That’s pretty bad, but yeah he’s funny.
Oh forgot about the genocide plan that was all Roslin…..
Yeah Baltar gets away with tons of awful stuff by lying and pretending to be a idiot. But all the characters are flawed and do dumb things (except maybe Apollo), there’s just so few humans left that they can’t afford to lose the competent ones, even briefly. Which makes Roslin even worse, because she’s kind of incompetent. The others are strategists, engineers, pilots, scientists, doctors and so on, while Roslin is a small-time teacher. Teachers are important too, so they should have had her teach, not lead the last humans. I mean she calls out Adama on his bullshit in the pilot episode like she’s already someone important. She has no idea what she’s doing, she just stumbles around blindly for four seasons trying to do “what’s right” and fails miserably over and over. Adama always has a plan and some uplifting words. She’s a hack, he’s a actual leader, yet she lectures him every other goddamn episode, and noone calls her out on it!
Haha, the hate runs deep. I called her cancer bitch and kept hoping she would just die!
OMG “Cancer bitch” lol
Actually that’s not that far from what I used to call her… I just finished the episode where they discussed the genocide of all the Cylons, but I guess “God” had other plans because they died before any actual damage could be done.. Well sabotage on their cell’s air supply but hey “god works in mysterious ways”
heh heh……
If only the Cylons had found Earth and wiped out the colonials…….
fking roslin bitch cunt! cancerous thankless bitch!
glad I found this post! I’m half way season 3. I hated this bitch the moment I saw her wrinkly face when doc at Caprica said she has a cancer. My hatred grew when this bitch didn’t followed Adama’s order and ordered his twat Apollo adama to hold! and than there was no stopping to it! every time she appear I only curse her! Fking manipulative cancerous thankless wrinkly bitch cunt!
I never usually comment on articles like these. I just thought I would point out that the reason I think there seems to be so much hatred for Laura Roslin is because 1. she is a humble school teacher, and 2. she is 90% of the time ‘right’ – as in she makes the best leadership decisions for the future and survival of humanity. No-one else comes close, and that is demonstrated time and time again throughout the plot. Look what happened when Baltar was President? Humanity enslaved, tortured and nearly wiped out. Never would have happened if they had followed Laura’s ‘hateable’ advice. What about when the secret juries were executing innocent men / war heroes of the resistance? Again, wouldn’t have happened under Laura as president. Why did people vote for Baltar the self-serving likeable twat in the first place? Because of comments like all of the haters above – “I prefer Baltar etc, I’d fuck Laura up etc.” And following him nearly got humanity killed. If Adama hadn’t followed her advice to run from the Cylons in the first episode NONE of humanity would have survived. I mean seriously people, LEARN THE LESSON, for fuck’s sake. Do you want to survive as a race or die as a hating idiot? Because that;s what Battlestar pounds into people’s heads.
I think what Battlestar also demonstrates is that there are never really any rules that can stay fixed – every situation must be judged on its own merit – eg. when Laura cheats to win the election. It was wrong, but again, at the time she was doing it for the survival of humanity. By letting Baltar win, humanity had to go through a painful year on New Caprica being tortured for their ‘preference’.
I think y’all have serious mother issues tbh. Makes me worry a bit about society humanity reading some of these comments. If this is how people are about a good leader, well the nay-sayers are right, we probably are doomed as a race.
But she’s a shitty leader who’s in over her head. The ones who make good decisions are the Adamas because they’re trained for leadership. Roslin is just winging it and still thinks her ideas are always the best ones. She’s hypocrite who uses her cancer to get out of trouble. She’s judgemental, self-righeous and just an all-around shitty person. They’re all flawed on BSG, but Roslin is a shitheel, pure and simple.
Judgemental and sooo full of herself! What Adama sees in her I haven’t a clue. There is nothing there redeeming. She isn’t likable. She isn’t smart (maybe book smart or religion smart but not street smart nor is she equipped to talk to people, let alone lead people). She isn’t attractive. She is a hot mess wrapped up in a cancer ridden body!
The hate for self-righteous cunts is timeless :p
Hated this character years ago and over time I have found I’ve grown and matured quite a bit. Realizing how childish I’d been in many aspects and that I needed to be as full of myself.
And yet my hate Roslin is just the same as it was years ago because of how awful a character she is.
She’s a great character, just a deeply shitty and hypocritical person!
And for the record, my mother is a teacher. She’s a fantastic person, smart as hell and makes rational decisions. I’d much rather have her in charge of humanitys survival than goddamn Roslin.
Seriously …. you compare her to Baltar and ask to choose? Yes, she was slightly better than fucking Baltar – holy Christ
She did not make the right decisions. She was a complete mess just winging it as she went along. And everyone was to put their faith in her. She fucking demanded it. But she put no faith in others. She sent Starbuck on a potential suicide mission to retrieve an artifact she dreamt about while high as fuck and Starbuck had the faith to act without hesitation for her. The situation was reversed in the season 4 opener – Starbuck needed Roslin to take a leap of faith with her that she went to earth and knew the way, and Roslin ridiculed her, denied her, conspired against her and then tried to kill her. And after she tried to kill Starbuck she told Adama she’d happily do it again and hopefully not miss and it’s somehow Starbucks fault for it all. She could not take responsibility for her own terrible actions throughout the entire show. She stole Helo and Athenas baby and told them it died and when the truth came out she tried to turn it around on fucking Helo …..
She has zero leadership qualities and she is a very unlikable character. No redeeming qualities, a shit person, a terrible ‘leader’ and the worst part is she never lays the price for her awfulness. Yes she dies a nasty death from cancer- but that was inflicted on her by random and/or health reasons, not because of the terrible things she did and said throughout. Maybe the writers decided that since she was such an awful person she deserved the storyline of terminal cancer to pay her back in some cosmic way!
You’re an idiot.
Haha, it’s 2017 and I can confirm this Laura Roslin character is still disliked.
I am watching this series over again (in preparation for the Battlestar Galactica reboot) so to ease the pain I just use the fast-forward button
everytime I see her face coming up. (laughed my head off when I read others had been doing the same!)
Honestly don’t think we miss out on anything by doing this as I don’t believe this character adds any value to the series, quite the opposite.
When I first watched this series years ago I also found I disliked her for the same reasons as those posted in this blog. (ethics, personality, etc)
Today after reading all these comments, and seeing a few people mentioned her fake smile and her whispering, I realised maybe that could be contributing to the pain.
It wasn’t just the character that I disliked, maybe it was also the actresses’ portrayal of it. So maybe I also didn’t like this type of acting.
So I googled to see what else this actress has done, then went in youtube to see a few clips and bingo, I saw the same “template” facial expressions in most of the videos I watched,
and the lines were delivered in the same annoying self-assured tone as she did in BSG.
It seems to be her one-dimensional formula for acting. Here’s but one example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmGV-lCAbmQ
Ric.
Holy shit do I agree with you!! She is a complete douchebag asshat with ZERO redeeming qualities! She is 100% fucking wrong and the ‘balls’ she has to try and look down at others has me seething watching this show! Her snarky bullshit to Helo is such a great place to start. But her contempt for Baltar and when Lee works to help his defense and Baltar wins …. that look she shoots Lee is pure hate/contempt and she’d throw him out an airlock right then and there. Fast forward slightly and her attitude and treatment of the mysteriously returned Starbuck ridiculous! This woman risked her life / career / everything for some vision Roslin had in some drug induced vision without question …. and Laura then returns the favor by damning Starbuck to be a Cylon and actually attempts to shoot her in the head! So yep – FUCK YOU Laura Roslin! You can’t fracking die soon enough! I am sooo glad that at least her old nasty cancer ridden dried up snatch dies slowly and painfully just as they reach earth! Couldn’t have been a more fitting end to her awfulness!
I hate Cally. A lot. Fuck you Cally.
She is a stupid self-righteous bitch and my middle finger hurts from holding it up every time her stupid fucking face appears on the screen. She needs to die a thousand firey deaths to even begin to make up for her horribleness.
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Thank you.
Fuck you, Laura Roslin.
Thank god I’m not alone. I have hated Roslin from episode 1 and she only gets worse the more drug induced visions she has. So glad there are so many others that hate Roslin!
I hated her too. She always acted like the moral one, but she wanted to kill anyone who got in her way ,stole a baby from its parents, stole election ,believed in abortion, but yet the bit#ch thinks she was better than Baltar . Kind of reminded me of smarter Hillary Clinton. I found myself calling her a bitch more and more as the seasons progressed… Starbuck has borderline personality disorder for sure.
fuck off Roslin we hate u bitch
just started season 4 (ive watched them all before) and just thinking god laura roslin is a total asshole. typed it into google and found my brethren. fuck laura roslin
Thank you for writing this. she’s such a snide ass jerk to everyone. definitely a tyrant. never has to face anything wrong she does, zero consequences for anything. She gets caught rigging an election, ends up back in charge. Acts smug and superior to everyone. she’s unbearable to watch. that’s why Gaius is infinitely a better character. you see character development and growth from him, internal struggle and real despair. Roslin has a messiah complex and gets addicted to drugs, and makes major decisions on hallucinations and visions from her drug trips, and judges people with zero evidence, and constantly acted like she deserved to be in charge. zero development. no lessons learned. I fucking hated her so much on my second viewing of the series. that smug look she gives everyone just makes me despise her.
I’ll echo your sentiment:
fuck you Laura Roslin.
to be clear, I find the roslin to be detestable, annoying and utterly self-righteous. to the author i say i wholeheartedly agree that people who cannot admit they are wrong or made a mistake are among the worst archetypes and people for that matter.
That being said she may have a messiah complex, but at least according to the show, she is a messiah (limited but still enough to claim). So within the story she is generally “correct” when following her visions. However, most of the rest of the time her actions, made wrongly with the same certainty, are more often than not “wrong”. more to the point she acts in a cold, vindictive and morally bereft manner when it comes to those decisions, especially when those decisions are questioned or challenged.
as a small boon to her, the shows overriding theme is fate, so while i hate her presentation and actions, one could argue that she just played her role as fated in the birth of humanity. on a visceral level, even accepting that as true, she is still quite hate worthy.
ron moore is not without blame as he clearly believes in predestination as evidenced on ds9 as well, which is problematic on both shows since the “destination/fate” was clearly not fully fleshed out from the beginning and also made course changes along the way.
Thank you! She is fictional so this whole thing is a bag of new emotions but I have literally had a woman abort my child without telling me [in real life] and I don’t find myself loathing her as much as Laura Roslin.
1. Does she have cancer of the mouth that makes her lips non existent?
2. The absolute worst part about her is the sheer believability of her actions. Not in a love to hate TV character way, but in a “this is how entitled elitist white people actually act and this tv show is trying to play it off” kind of way.
3. Thank you, I really needed this vent session.
Awesome article, which I’m 100% in agreement with. Not only is Laura Roslin (Fuck you Bitch!) a lying, conniving hypocrite, she has no sense of justice except that it is whatever she decides to come up with – usually after little thought. She has NEVER been voted into office, and after New Caprica (beginning Season 3) demands that Tom Zarak yield the presidency to her, for no reason at all other than she decides that it belongs to her, despite having lost the presidential election and not holding the Vice Presidency or any other post (since she avoided any other posts) ! She has no respect for democracy, having no cabinet other than herself and one or two toadies; there’s no government administration, no Congress, no… anything. She is the government, executive, legislative & judicial all rolled into one single power-hungry bitch with no respect for anything except her sense of self-importance . Oh yeah, i forgot that she also is the religious apparatus of the ‘state’ too, since she sees herself as some kind of prophet too. So with all that going for you, why bother to care whether you lose in elections or not, because there’s nobody to stand up to you, nobody to vote against your bills in Congress, nobody to suggest alternative legislation, nobody to stop her throwing somebody out an airlock etc. Fuck you Laura Roslin.
In season one she performs sometimes surprisingly ruthless acts, which continue throughout the series, and, supported by Adama (who also begins to reject the right of any outside authority to intervene in his escapades), there’s nobody who is able to object. People who do object, or displease Laura Roslin, end up locked up, beaten up, and executed. This from a teacher who became Minster of Education (from sleeping with the elected President) who, inheriting the Presidency as the only cabinet member of the Caprica government alive, lost the elections, but insisted she become President anyway, as her character became more ruthless throughout season two, and peaking in season three (I haven’t seen season four yet) where she will accept no opposition to her will whatsoever, even advocating child slave labor aboard the mining ships etc and happy to lock up and kill anybody who spoke out against this. Meanwhile Adama is backing her up to the point where he threatens the Chief’s family (his wife and baby daughter, I shit you not) with execution unless he backs down his strike action for protecting child slave labour and freedom of career…. This is resolved unsatisfactorily, although for some reason we are given then impression that everything is supposedly ok, despite it being far from that.
The writers are no doubt taking us in this direction purposefully, and the end of the season three is probably raising these very themes….but even so, I seriously doubt that all the issues are going to be resolved, as Laura Roslin is one major bitch, and now has her claws so deep into the Fleet that it has become dictatorship and not any form of democratic government. She can play at being Miss Democracy all she wants, but the truth is she doesn’t have left democratic bone in her body, and still believes she can get her own way by staring down people like a school mistress (as is said in the article above) and acting superior…. If that fails then she just uses her whipping boy, Admiral Adama, to beat up, arrest, or kill. Failing that she will manipulate somebody within the military, causing fractions and at one point the fleet were at odds, even at gunpoint, with each other, all because of Laura fucking Roslin. But since that point in early/mid season two, Adama has sadly given in to everything requested or demanded by Roslin, so that the Fleet containing the last remnants of humanity (as far as we know) has become a military dictatorship – with Roslin being the dictator, and Adama the enforcer. Nobody has a chance of taking over control. Nobody has a voice even. Adama won’t allow anybody else to be President, and froze out Dr. Baltar when he was both VP and President. So by season three Adama attempts to murder Baltar without trial, or, when things don’t go as he and Roslin like in court, Adama tries to once again put an end to the course of justice, in favour of his ‘quick justice’, as happened to over a dozen men and women onboard the Battlestar after New Caprica, where a kangaroo-court executed those charged with treason, and all found guilty without any right to defence… They only were allowed to beg for their lives before being blasted out an airlock. This is what Adama has in mind for Dr. Baltar. Roslin wants the same, only she wants a show-trial first, and undermines the defence at every turn, refusing documents etc, deciding who will be the defence lawyer, and insisting to her prosecutor that Baltar be charged with the attacks on the colonies, and every single person who lost their life on New Caprica.
So when Lee Adama represents Dr. Baltar in court and is questioning Roslin as witness, she says quietly enough that only Lee can hear, that she feels sorry for him now because of what he will become for daring to stand up to her. Also his father, Bill Adama, shows uncharacteristically poor judgement here, where he accuses his son of cowardice and lack of integrity…. It’s as if Roslin has spun a spell around Adama (Sr.) which he’s unable to shake off, leading him to be her complete servant, and to prevent anyone from opposing her at any turn.
Will it turn out to be a great twist, or is it just that Laura Roslin is a complete bitch? Looking forward to the end of season three, and the start of season four… but it seems to me that Roslin, at least, is unlikely to change. She has complete confidence in her sense of purpose as the only person worthy to lead the people… Even though she doesn’t do much FOR the people any longer. She’s insecure, untrustworthy (going back on her word of assurance), takes babies from their parents by force, has killed more people than anybody else aboard the Fleet, has no concept of power except the lust to wield it, has no charisma, uses her feminine charms (such as they are) to exercise control over Bill Adama,and thus the Fleet – something which no man could hope to do, no matter how effective a leader. In short, I don’t see Roslin coming back from where she’s at. She has come to define herself as a true bitch, and I think this has only become worse as her experience exercising power has progressed. A pity she hadn’t died sooner, that Dr. Baltar hadn’t saved her life. So fuck you Laura Roslin.
I’m watching BSG again for the 5th time. Hate her more every time.
Couldnt agree more. I have to skip scenes when she comes on as they make me feel like smacking her smug expression off her face with a bat. It is the only character in the history of television who annoys me to such an extent that I cant avoid hating also the actress portraying her :D
I really wish they had kill her off. I love the series and enjoy rewatching it from time to time but this character really spoils the fun.
Since long time, we didnt write here sth. Why is that? :)
Is this Yoda with a WordPress account? Fuck Roslin, but Starbuck is the true C*nt of the show.
Thanks God I am not alone! Right now I am at the end of season 3. It infuriates me how she can break any laws and violate the rights of everyone and nothing happens but if any other does something much less important it’s outrageous and she has to defend the principles of the 12 colonies.
Also I loved the Adamas and Starbuck in the original show, what’s wrong in the cosmos so that Baltar is my favorite character?
All the men hating on a powerful woman. Fucking shocker. Grow the fuck up you fucking small dick losers.
Will you cant like everyone it just a chose