Blood On The Scales

[teachlikeroslin]

My dog is staring at me. It's in the low 90s here today so I haven't been too interested in taking her out. We've gone up and down the block a few times which adds up to a little over a mile but she keeps going to the door and I keep trying to let her out (we stick her leash in the door so that she can't get away) and then she refuses to move. And

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[astreamofstars]

#3 - I love that. I think that's possibly one of the things that bugs me the most about all the people constantly criticising his decisions, and Laura's decisions. Because, yeah, sometimes they make mistakes, and yeah, they've become much more dictatorial, but the fact is no one else has a clue how hard it is to do the jobs that they do. No one else has to make these life or death decisions all the time. No one else has to have the safety of the human race at the forefront of their minds all the time. So Gaeta sitting there thinking he can be admiral and make it all better is frustrating, just like Lee's belief that when he's president, everything will be better is frustrating. Because it's so, so easy to criticise, but when you actually have to do the job? You realise that idealism isn't going to cut it. Does that mean no one else could do the jobs? No, it doesn't, but it does mean that when you're doing the job, you're going to make just as many mistakes and be open to just as much criticism as Roslin and Adama are, and it's not

[astreamofstars]

#8 - What is it with Baltar and his amazing ability to constantly ride out every crisis by finding someone to have sex with? How does he do that

[teachlikeroslin]

8) He's super lucky?

9) Out of all the cylons, I think Leoben would get over a thing like airlocking the quickest. Something like that would roll right off him. I do think his flobotnum box is really funny. "I knew this box would work." How convenient!

14) I agree. I want to hate them both but I can't (even though I do.) Zarek looks at him like, "Well, we gave it our best shot." And that's such an interesting response. No lofty speeches, no clamoring for martyrdom. He goes out quietly, which is such an interesting choice for that character.

[astreamofstars]

I think Leoben is just one of those people who likes to look like he knows everything.

"I knew this box would work"

"Yeah, but Leoben, we just tried twenty seven other boxes before that one".

"Yes, but I knew this one would work. I foresaw it."

"Riiiiiight"

[teachlikeroslin]

3) Word. I mean, it reminds me of the 2008 election. I was staunchly anti-Bush and campaigned for Obama because it was like, "Get a smart guy in office who can fix all these horrible problems." And to be sure, I prefer Obama as president to Bush and I do think that Obama is making a better president than McCain would have had he been elected instead

[astreamofstars]

I think we Brits are just cynical, so on the whole, we automatically assume that any politician who gets into power is going to end up as bad as the last one. It's often the case, though. And I cannot imagine how the fleet would have survived as long as it did if Gaeta and Zarek had been in charge instead of Adama and Roslin. Jeez.

Incidentally, I'm of the firm belief that our new Prime Minister, David Cameron, is a cylon. He certainly doesn't seem human.