Dear fragging Ghost you people are like rabid Trekkies. You get the damn show for FREE or at least close enough to it that it doesn't even matter and you sit here bitching about a character change from a show that aired 20 YEARS AGO??? Damn.
Now personally I loved the 2-episode premier. Making Boomer a girl made no difference to me at all since Boomer was nothing but a supporting character in the original anyway. Making Starbuck a girl didn't really affect me either. I mean who the hell cares? I do have to say that I didn't really like the Starbuck character, but not for her being female, but because I think the character is just flat.
And I have to say, they did the Human Genocide so better in 2 episodes than the original series conveyed in an entire season and 2 TV moives. And that last part about ther being no 13th colony was fraggin' great. This series will be a darker, gritier version of the original and that's a good thing.
Gabriel