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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Holy shit, this was one hell of an episode to end the first half of the season on. Even more than the shooting of Adama (because we knew that he would almost certainly survive), this is the kind of thing where we have very little idea of just how the situations will be resolved. Kudos to the writers for that! I've started listening to Ron Moore's podcast, and he commented that the episode ran 15 minutes too long. Hopefully part of what was cut was some scenes making it clear that not everyone on the [i]Pegasus[/i] was a complete jackass (other than the crew chief). IMO the CAG just [b]might[/b] not be a jackass -- not only was swatting Starbuck down perfectly deserved and was perfectly in line with military operations, but from the perspective of a man who's taking on new pilots who apparently have major problems with the chain of command, it makes perfect sense that he'd want Apollo to start out slow as a Raptor pilot, get the feel for the new method of operating. Anyway, to the real meat of the story... their "special" Cylon interrogation methods. Not cool at all. Dramatically, I agree that it was a good development, and I also agree that it's probably something that nutball Humans would do in that kind of situation, but... emotionally, that whole sequence as I and my friends slowly realized just how twisted the [i]Pegasus[/i] crew was regarding Cylon prisoners, it was hitting WAY below the belt. (It also made for a very awkward after-show discussion, considering that a couple of female friends were watching the show with me at the time...) Honestly? My initial reaction after the end of the show was thinking that the Cylons may just actually be justified in trying to wipe out Humanity. I thought that Adama was horrible for putting the gun to Sharon's head last week, to "explain" why she ended up helping them out (when I'm convinced she was helping anyway). But now.... ugh. I hate to think about it. As far as explaining how the [i]Pegasus[/i] escaped... the podcast explained that the ship's networks had all been shut down for the overhaul, so that explained why the battlestar itself escaped. And since that shipyard was apparently not one of the very first targets (and the lack of a computer shutdown on the [i]Pegasus[/i] probably helped them figure out what the Cylons were doing), they might've gotten just a bit of time to get a few reports before they bugged out. But I agree that I don't understand why all the Vipers weren't offloaded before such a long period of deactivation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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