Sharon Agathon, Hera, and the Motherhood narrative in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?"
Spoilers for up through Season 4.5.
I’m not saying that it was handled absolutely flawlessly, but I still find relatively little to complain about when it comes to the handling of Sharon ‘Athena’ Agathon’s character in Season 3 and 4 of Battlestar Galactica. One of the biggest reasons, I suspect, is that I do not have any kind of intrinsic dislike of what can be called the “motherhood narrative.” It’s certainly true that, as arguably happened at points within Doctor Who’s Series 6, a female character’s narrative and purpose within the show can be subsumed by her pregnancy or her role as a mother. With Athena, one of the more complex, contradictory, and strong characters in BSG, in my own opinion, I think the writing team avoided that for the most part.
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When Roslin makes the choice to ban abortion she asserts that she has voted and campaigned to protects a women's rights to choose her entire career up till that point. Her decision to abort Athena's pregnancy doesn't register with Roslin as an exception to this, due to Athena being a thing rather then a person. While the specific choice she made in Downloaded had more to do with what Hera is then what her mother or father themselves are, she would not have been able to follow the road that brought them here all the way if it was a human pregnanted by a Cylon. Boomer is more right here then you give her credit for.
