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[kaynorr]

Orlando was less fun my second time through, but still enjoyable.  Would have been more so if not for the head cold I got on my second day there.

The dry heat of Las Vegas the week after was an excellent remedy, though.  It was my first trip to Sin City and I only scratched the surface; I'd love to go back with

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[lhn]

And it's just sad that a show that made its bones with genuine, no-easy-answers examination of the sources of political legitimacy, the price and value of democracy, and the the pros and cons of the rule of law versus the great man (or woman) theory is now aiming towards the acclamation of an effectively dynastic leader. And worse, seems to be framing it as the right thing to do. How wonderful that someone who's the intellectual heir of Zarek, the political heir of Roslin, and the natural heir of Adama can step unopposed into the presidency, pausing just long enough to do a little Oedipal rebellion against each to establish his bona fides. If we didn't have Lee, it might be necessary to actually see political leaders emerge out of the faceless population of the fleet, and who knows what they'd do?

(Not that such a political collapse is unrealistic in the face of disaster on that scale. But the ever-shifting balancing act that prevented it right through Baltar's election-- ironically, the high-water mark for the development of a functioning democracy among the Colonial survivors-- was one of my favorite things about the show, once upon a time.)

[lhn]

The thing of it is that Lee becoming President is an entirely legiimate endpoint for the show (being, as you point out, a synthesis of Roslin & Admiral Adama). However, it's the kind of thing where if that is your story arc, you need to have your act together since day one.

They starting laying the breadcrumbs for The New Political Lee around season three if memory serves, which is two seasons too late. It's a satisfying ending in many ways, but it really has to be earned. Anything less seems clumsy and blunt, as you've rightly noted.