Two, thank you:-) I'm a little behind on the internet but very much agree with your take on the Roslin/Adama romance (and the much more interesting but non-romantic relationship developing between her and Baltar).
I like that connection about the two mutinies. The killing of the Quorum was definitely a shocking moment for me. I also really liked the fact that the Quorum believed in their own role, despite their numerous differences with Roslin and Adama
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It was almost a Joss Whedon ploy with the Quorum, they finally show them as mature and not so easily swayed by the latest rhetoric and they they shoot them. Midnight's jane had an interesting point about Zareck's will to matyrdom further down, I am more curious about his backstory is, I suppose it's something that might even turn up in Jane Espensen's Caprica.
And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there. Yes that was much more convincing than his post-coital epiphany on the base-star, I really believed him when he said he knew who Felix was.
Yes, the brief hope that the Quorum would become something more than the squabbling whiners that the show has often let them be depicted as, was quickly snuffed out. Yet it was that surprise and hope that made their deaths more meaningful. They might yet have come around to Zareck's leadership, but he couldn't afford to have them on the fence.
Yes, in that scene, I really believed that Baltar was there for only himself and Felix, and no larger purpose. I actually found that base star vision distracting and unnecessary, other than to be a "gotcha" moment.
Oh, very interesting! I hadn't actually made that connection between past and present events like the Cylon/Quorum massacres. I think that Zarek was in some ways always looking to go out in that blaze of glory, a martyr to his cause, that Lee denied him on the Prison ship way back when, and in some way his actions were motivated by that. He was a lot more ruthless than I expected, particularly with the murders of the Quorum, but not really out of character. I loved that last, rather tender scene with Baltar and Gaeta. Ah, for what might have been.
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And I also found it interesting to see the changes in Baltar that he felt he needed to be there.
Yes that was much more convincing than his post-coital epiphany on the base-star, I really believed him when he said he knew who Felix was.
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Yes, in that scene, I really believed that Baltar was there for only himself and Felix, and no larger purpose. I actually found that base star vision distracting and unnecessary, other than to be a "gotcha" moment.
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I think that Zarek was in some ways always looking to go out in that blaze of glory, a martyr to his cause, that Lee denied him on the Prison ship way back when, and in some way his actions were motivated by that. He was a lot more ruthless than I expected, particularly with the murders of the Quorum, but not really out of character.
I loved that last, rather tender scene with Baltar and Gaeta. Ah, for what might have been.
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