BSG- Resistance

[somedaybitch]

elsewhere, there was a discussion about Lee's behavior. thevaliumsofa said:

it would be easier, in the long run, for it to be military vs. civilian and not military vs military. the relationships would be easier to fix later on

to which i agreed, and replied the following. cuz i'm lazy, i thought i'd just cut/paste my comments here.

only, without the quote-y stuff.

so, uhm, here...

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yes, this. Lee's not going to do damage on his father's ship. he doesn't want the crew to have to choose. he doesn't want officer against officer. and he recognized that getting the President somewhere else, somewhere to try and do what she feels she needs to in order to save humanity, will keep Galactica's crew from having to choose.

Lee wasn't comfortable with what was happening, with the crew's support of him. look at his reaction to the pilots in the briefing. he knew it was fracturing the crew. he had to take himself out of the equation, take the President out of the equation or Galactica would be fucked.



and because i'm a complete sloth, i think i'll just go round up my commments elsewhere and bring 'em here.

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Baltar wasn't talking to Sharon, he was talking to the cylon. he was asking the cylon if the cylon loved the Chief, if the cylon was willing to save the Chief's life. because if the cylon part of her is capable of love, then so is the Six in his head.

Baltar was utterly awesome in this...and so was Six. she's losing him, she knows it, and it matters because she is becoming more human....she is really in love with him.

i think the cylons chose poorly in Baltar...underestimated him, not realizing that when he was truly tested, he'd choose the right path.

i also loved Zarek in this ep. i don't think he's gonna be a bad guy. Apollo gave Zarek another chance because part of Zarek was right, he just went about it the wrong way. that makes Zarek an interesting question. look at how angry he was at Tigh last week when Tigh disrespected the office of the President. it wasn't Roslin that Zarek was torqued about, it was the office being snubbed. can Zarek, when given the opportunity, do the right thing?

can Baltar, when pushed, do the right thing?

or Tigh for that matter. when sober, he makes the right choices, but he second-guesses himself so much, feels he is so weak, that he hides behind the booze. he could have had the raptor shot down but he didn't. he couldn't, because he knew it was wrong.

and my personal prediction for C!Boomer, based on no spoilers whatsoever...she boosted the raider to go get a transport. she's gonna get them off Caprica.

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and from bsg_creative:

adafrog said:

YAY!! But what's with the being all friendly and nice to Tigh? Maybe because he hasn't quite figured out what happened.
And does the comment that he doesn't take well to people second guessing his decisions mean that he is going to really not ever forgive Junior? I mean, he *has* to at some point, doesn't he? Although Lee did keep his grudge for two years....

i think he was addressing that comment to Tigh, who only fraks up when he second guesses himself, which is usually when the Devil Ellen is whispering in his ear.

Although, now with the old man, I'll bet Lee loses whatever pull he had with a good majority of the military people. Unless he's weird now, too. *scrunches face*

Lee left because of the pull, because of the support he was getting from the crew. he didn't want to be the reason the crew fractured, and he also believes his decision to back the President was right, thus, given what was happening in the fleet, they both knew she had to get off the ship. they both did.

i think if Lee knew his dad was gonnna wake up, he wouldn't have left though. but he didn't, so he did what he thought was right.

and Tigh did some stuff right in this episode. he didn't go apeshit in Sickbay when Hammerhead was trying to explain what happened. Tigh was finally facing the results of his actions. people were getting killed. Tigh didn't order HotDog to shoot Apollo's raptor either. and Tigh was starting to recognize, when he was sober, that Ellen was manipulating him in the worst possible way.

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have more thoughts, but these'll do for now. talk amongst yourselves.


real quick...more thoughts.

Cally: OHMIFRAKKINGGOD!

Gaeta: don't think he's a cylon. i think he was just covering for Dee.

Cottle: i got so.much.love.


Lee saying goodbye to Adama: ouch, like an ouch thing.

Jammer: somebody space him please? anyone?

Tyrol: duuuuuuuuude.

also? why with the nutting up about a team of athletes surviving? they train together in real life. happens all the time. i ran into the US Olympic Ski Team one summer in Mammoth when i went mountain biking. they were, wait for it, high.altitude.training.

and shooting a gun? not terribly complicated. point. shoot.

professional athletes have superb reflexes, superb hand-eye coordination. that's all you need to shoot a gun effectively. that's it.

first time i went shooting i blew the head out of the paper target at 10 yards. fully automatic weapons take about 5 minutes to get used to. the mini's that Kara and Helo had looked like Tech9's.(sic) they fire 9mm rounds. there's almost no kick. the recoil from a fully auto is simply a matter of adjusting your grip and your stancce. that's it. the guy with the sniper rifle? also not complicated. big scope, looked like a fully open eye reticle style, [both eyes open to sight], not so tough with the missing your target.