This just in!

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Joss himself has proclaimed it (and thus it must be so): Despite what we've all believed lo these many months Veronica Mars isn't Buffy (bemoans loss of Duncan=Angel theory), it's Harry Potter! So therefore I must ask my flist to hook me up with a link to the character by character comparison with the Potterverse. C'mon, it's been a day! Someone

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I wouldn't care at all if he broke his word, but it says so much about his character that he cares that much. I think I'd actually find him more interesting if he had broken his word. Lee can be too honorable for his character's good (and my interest).

I think that Roslin and Adama are both too cocky for their own good, both convinced that they're right. My problem with it is that Adama has the possibility of just taking over by brute force (which he's done) while the president would have to rely on the will of the people (at least to an extent).

I did too, but I think it's entirely consistent with the way they've underestimated and misunderstood the dynamics of the civilian portions of the fleet.
And that right there is probably Adama's biggest failing. He takes control not thinking about the will of the fleet, only about the safety of the fleet. I think he's very stuck in his pre-apocolyptic ways of thinking. I think he sees that his and the military's situation has changed, but I don't think he sees that everyone's situation has changed, and along with it their world views.