Thanks for clarifying your intent, apologies for not replying sooner. I hope you understand that the spirit in which I asked those questions is of genuine curiosity and not in any offence towards yourself. I've read a few of your posts in other communities and have seen other videos of yours so I'm interested in understanding your point of view because I genuinely respect it.

You see when I was watching the show I tend to pick up on more examples of the female characters being ignored or pushed aside during late season 2 and early season 3. So I was curious at someone seeing these things in season 4, a season which I finally got to see some of my favourite female characters pushed up to the front again and actually interacting with each other (Faith and Guess what's coming to dinner, being a couple of my favourite episodes).

Strangely enough though your point about Baltar was something I noticed in the first and second seasons. The audience was constantly allowed to see the human sympathetic side to his character while Laura's character always had to remain professional and we were rarely allowed to see her personal side so it made people quick to attack the character as cold hearted, where as a male character engaging in similar actions (such as Tigh) got labels like badass.

See where as you may see Laura's romance in 4.5 a bad move on the part of the writers, for me it seemed very natural and the build up to her emotional realisation not just about her romantic feelings for Bill but also the sense of family she felt with Kara and Lee was a long time coming. It allowed us to see not just a pragmatic angle to her actions but an emotional one too. For me it made her a lot more of a well rounded character.

Any way I just thought it was interesting how different people define what makes a character whole and fulfilled in the storyline.