Hi everyone -- so sorry for the delay in today's DPP! Real life intervened a bit, but better late than never, so here we are. Please accept these pilot-appropriate macros as my apology:
I'm not sure if the crew would have known Kara had been involved with one of the Adama sons, but I do think they would have known she was especially close to Bill
Yeah, I agree that her "surrogate daughter" status was pretty common knowledge, and I, too, am unsure about how much of the whole Zak thing was ever talked about. On the one hand, Bill went to his son's funeral and came back with Kara, so it seems like the long-time crew members could make that basic connection pretty easily, though they may not have jumped to the 'romantic relationship with dead son' card. More like, this kid served with his son and reminds him of all the potential he might have fulfilled. So, yeah, I could see Tyrol telling her as a sort of family announcement.
It's a nice touch on the screenwriter's part to parallel Sharon/Tyrol and Kara/Lee there, A.k.a. the 'secret, forbidden romances' that are actually totally obvious.
it certainly stands to reason that Gaeta would blame Lee and possibly Kara for Dee's suicide
I always thought he probably would feel a lot of blame about that, especially since he experienced the suicide so viscerally, hearing it happen and being the first one on the scene. But then the show didn't seem to show any specific response to that, beyond his feeling even more like he had nothing to lose. So I just thought it might be interesting to read a bit extra into Lee being the only main character to get specifically targeted for a quick bullet to the brain. But I kind of doubt the creators were really intending to convey a revenge scenario there; I think it was more that Gaeta didn't really care how Zarek got Lee out of the way, whereas clearly he did care about disposing of Bill *his way.*
Yeah, I agree that her "surrogate daughter" status was pretty common knowledge, and I, too, am unsure about how much of the whole Zak thing was ever talked about. On the one hand, Bill went to his son's funeral and came back with Kara, so it seems like the long-time crew members could make that basic connection pretty easily, though they may not have jumped to the 'romantic relationship with dead son' card. More like, this kid served with his son and reminds him of all the potential he might have fulfilled. So, yeah, I could see Tyrol telling her as a sort of family announcement.
It's a nice touch on the screenwriter's part to parallel Sharon/Tyrol and Kara/Lee there, A.k.a. the 'secret, forbidden romances' that are actually totally obvious.
it certainly stands to reason that Gaeta would blame Lee and possibly Kara for Dee's suicide
I always thought he probably would feel a lot of blame about that, especially since he experienced the suicide so viscerally, hearing it happen and being the first one on the scene. But then the show didn't seem to show any specific response to that, beyond his feeling even more like he had nothing to lose. So I just thought it might be interesting to read a bit extra into Lee being the only main character to get specifically targeted for a quick bullet to the brain. But I kind of doubt the creators were really intending to convey a revenge scenario there; I think it was more that Gaeta didn't really care how Zarek got Lee out of the way, whereas clearly he did care about disposing of Bill *his way.*
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