Felix Weekly Returns!

[millari]

So, as promised, I'm going to try out the Felix Weekly posts again, see what the response/interest is. Let's start out with a little game to get some meta going

Comments

[trovia]

Well, I think that could only have happened if Gaeta approached Lee in some PTSD-induced anger management fit. Which he might have. It doesn't quite seem like the Gaeta thing to do, but after the whole pen stabbing debacle, Cottle might have put him on enough mood stabilizers that there's no telling how he would have acted. (I still like rap541's idea that his Adama/Roslin giggle fit in that one deleted scene was antidepressant-induced, and that he remembered nothing about it later.)

Anyway, with all the post-New Caprican shit Gaeta was wading through in S3 and then Baltar's return and so forth, Gaeta would otherwise have had way bigger fish to fry than some high school romance shenanigans that only concern him insofar that Dee is getting screwed over. However, Dee has always made quite clear that her business is not Gaeta's business, and Gaeta loves privacy too much to not respect the privacy of others. So either he's in an OOC drugged rage on Dee's behalf, or he's too busy being miserable.

Though I'd quite like to read the scene where mangsty drunk Gaeta encounters Lee in the head and gives him some dry-witted words of choice.

[millari]

You know, I really like that idea that Felix might have been on mood stabilizers after pen-stabbing Baltar; it makes a lot of sense. I think he would have been on them for at least a while, although I could also see him forgoing them quickly, if he found them giving him side effects, especially ones that would interfere with his ability to be sharp for his job.

I also like your point that Dee keeps her business to herself. I am reminded of that scene in "Unfinished Business" where Felix is staring at Dee while she stares at Lee and Kara in the ring, and he knows exactly what is going on and he looks utterly pained about what to do about it, because she is so obviously not letting him in.

I too would like to read that scene.

[trovia]

I too think that Gaeta would probably want to go off the drugs very fast. On the one hand, they probably don't have many, and Cottle as a military doctor might not even have any that aren't meant for emergencies. On the other hand, I've always thought (after reading somebody's very convincing meta about it once, somewhere, ages ago) that the BSG 'verse must have a lot of prejudice against mental disorders. I mostly get this from the fact that people such as Kara never even thought to get any kind of help after New Caprica (or Lee after his near-death experience in S2), as well as the fact that Baltar, who is super educated and a scientist and should know better, was desperately busy hiding the fact that he might be having a mental disorder. (what with hallucinating the hot blonde woman) He went to Cottle to be checked for a brain tumor, I think? Or a chip, directly? But he never had him check for crazy, never mind that possibility clearly was on his mind. So I think they all have a prejudice, and Gaeta has enough concerns about seeming weak or not being trustworthy already. Add to that concerns that he might not be able to work reliable, as you said.

[kappamaki33]

Agreed. Direct confrontation in a situation that's not really any of his business is not Felix's style. I could see him being subtly passive-aggressive--possibly so subtle that Felix himself is the only one who notices his passive-aggressive jabs at Lee.

[lorrainemarker]

Though I'd quite like to read the scene where mangsty drunk Gaeta encounters Lee in the head and gives him some dry-witted words of choice.

Done! In Vino Veritas: http://lorrainemarker.livejournal.com/176729.html