Now that the series has concluded, it's sad that Gaeta and his short-lived mutiny were glossed over. A lot of places see Gaeta and Zarek as the black hats despite the fact that Roslin and Adama had essentially become dictators. Why do people see Zarek as a bad guy? The same person who asked Jammer to protect Roslin and who refused to work with the Cylons despite the offer of power is now some black hat villain? He refused to work for the Cylons on New Caprica, he willingly handed over his democratically elected presidency to Roslin, and he sided with the people's right to refuse to let an enemy that had murdered billions mess with their FTL drives and less than a week prior killed off Colonial hostages.
Gaeta sided with Zarek because he was fighting for democracy, and we're supposed to root for the people who are giving the RTF a de facto dictatorship? The fact that the mutiny had genuine grievances was pretty much undermined by the idiots who are simply general racists - the Sunshine Boys in particular. However, I doubt that people like Racetrack, who worked with Athena and was friends with Helo, was a racist or sided with the mutiny over any blind hatred of the Cylons - she probably sided with democracy over dictatorship, especially with an untested enemy that wanted to travel freely through the FTL when they hadn't proven themselves as genuine allies and only a few weeks prior murdered innocent people trying to get the Final Four on their Basestar. And Gaeta, a hero of New Caprica, definately would have been a beacon of hope for people who had no other leadership role to turn to with Adama making careless decisions that put the lives of all of humanity on the line.
Why wasn't the fact that Roslin and Adama are dictators touched on in cannon to a greater extent? I'm not surprised in the least, the writers didn't even bother to explain Sharon "let's stop being butchers" Valerii becoming a supporter of John "let's reduce them to a managable size" Cavil. Story-wise, the mutiny only happened to force the humans and Cylons to integrate, and the real problems with the RTF being turned into a dictatorship under Adama and Roslin were ignored to give us brilliant scenes of insight like drunk Lee Adama chasing a pigeon around his house in the finale. Gaeta was a hero who was one of the people who saw the insanity of Adama's dangerous, drunken behavior as leader and decided that enough was enough, and made a heroic but failed attempt to restore the RTF.
To Gaeta's critics, wasn't Lee the one who said (in Zarek's premiere episode "Bastille Day") that if Adama and Roslin didn't respect the elections and the Articles of Colonization, she wasn't the President and he wasn't an Officer by any legal or moral means? No one voted for Roslin, and Adama discarded the legal vote of the Quorum to impose his military might against the wishes of the people when it came to a group that was directly responsible for humanity's holocaust and murdered hostages mere weeks prior. If there was justice, Gaeta would have won the mutiny and lead the RTF to freedom.
Gaeta sided with Zarek because he was fighting for democracy, and we're supposed to root for the people who are giving the RTF a de facto dictatorship? The fact that the mutiny had genuine grievances was pretty much undermined by the idiots who are simply general racists - the Sunshine Boys in particular. However, I doubt that people like Racetrack, who worked with Athena and was friends with Helo, was a racist or sided with the mutiny over any blind hatred of the Cylons - she probably sided with democracy over dictatorship, especially with an untested enemy that wanted to travel freely through the FTL when they hadn't proven themselves as genuine allies and only a few weeks prior murdered innocent people trying to get the Final Four on their Basestar. And Gaeta, a hero of New Caprica, definately would have been a beacon of hope for people who had no other leadership role to turn to with Adama making careless decisions that put the lives of all of humanity on the line.
Why wasn't the fact that Roslin and Adama are dictators touched on in cannon to a greater extent? I'm not surprised in the least, the writers didn't even bother to explain Sharon "let's stop being butchers" Valerii becoming a supporter of John "let's reduce them to a managable size" Cavil. Story-wise, the mutiny only happened to force the humans and Cylons to integrate, and the real problems with the RTF being turned into a dictatorship under Adama and Roslin were ignored to give us brilliant scenes of insight like drunk Lee Adama chasing a pigeon around his house in the finale. Gaeta was a hero who was one of the people who saw the insanity of Adama's dangerous, drunken behavior as leader and decided that enough was enough, and made a heroic but failed attempt to restore the RTF.
To Gaeta's critics, wasn't Lee the one who said (in Zarek's premiere episode "Bastille Day") that if Adama and Roslin didn't respect the elections and the Articles of Colonization, she wasn't the President and he wasn't an Officer by any legal or moral means? No one voted for Roslin, and Adama discarded the legal vote of the Quorum to impose his military might against the wishes of the people when it came to a group that was directly responsible for humanity's holocaust and murdered hostages mere weeks prior. If there was justice, Gaeta would have won the mutiny and lead the RTF to freedom.
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