I like that connection about the two mutinies. The killing of the Quorum was definitely a shocking moment for me. I also really liked the fact that the Quorum believed in their own role, despite their numerous differences with Roslin and Adama.
I also really like what you point out about Gaeta's involvement with the Cylons versus those of Adama, who had none of that experience at all.
I think that Zarack definitely didn't come off well, but I think it was in keeping with his own experience that one can not effect change without breaking away strongly from the past. And also that, once underway, the changeover is likely to be very messy indeed.
It was also interesting to see how undecided people could be -- that faced with the unknown, the known was always preferable. This was seen first in opposition to the Cylon collaboration, but then again at the idea of a total overthrow of the power structure. And, as you point out, the close personal ties are familiar, whereas larger issues are less of a known outcome.
I loved that scene with Baltar and Gaeta too. And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there.
It was almost a Joss Whedon ploy with the Quorum, they finally show them as mature and not so easily swayed by the latest rhetoric and they they shoot them. Midnight's jane had an interesting point about Zareck's will to matyrdom further down, I am more curious about his backstory is, I suppose it's something that might even turn up in Jane Espensen's Caprica.
And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there. Yes that was much more convincing than his post-coital epiphany on the base-star, I really believed him when he said he knew who Felix was.
Yes, the brief hope that the Quorum would become something more than the squabbling whiners that the show has often let them be depicted as, was quickly snuffed out. Yet it was that surprise and hope that made their deaths more meaningful. They might yet have come around to Zareck's leadership, but he couldn't afford to have them on the fence.
Yes, in that scene, I really believed that Baltar was there for only himself and Felix, and no larger purpose. I actually found that base star vision distracting and unnecessary, other than to be a "gotcha" moment.
I also really like what you point out about Gaeta's involvement with the Cylons versus those of Adama, who had none of that experience at all.
I think that Zarack definitely didn't come off well, but I think it was in keeping with his own experience that one can not effect change without breaking away strongly from the past. And also that, once underway, the changeover is likely to be very messy indeed.
It was also interesting to see how undecided people could be -- that faced with the unknown, the known was always preferable. This was seen first in opposition to the Cylon collaboration, but then again at the idea of a total overthrow of the power structure. And, as you point out, the close personal ties are familiar, whereas larger issues are less of a known outcome.
I loved that scene with Baltar and Gaeta too. And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there.
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And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there.
Yes that was much more convincing than his post-coital epiphany on the base-star, I really believed him when he said he knew who Felix was.
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Yes, in that scene, I really believed that Baltar was there for only himself and Felix, and no larger purpose. I actually found that base star vision distracting and unnecessary, other than to be a "gotcha" moment.
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