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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I agree, this episode completely makes up for the last two! (Not that I exactly had a huge problem with the last two... it always makes sense for people to stop and take a look around and see what's happening. 'Course, there were the big plot holes too, but I can excuse the best show on of making a few small missteps every once in a while...) So, I'm not exactly shocked that they killed Billy. I wasn't expecting it, mainly because I've stopped trying to anticipate what the writers do with this awesome show. In retrospect, they kinda foreshadowed it with Billy finally growing a pair of stones in front of the <del>Commander</del> <ins>Admiral</ins>, then proposing to and getting rejected by Dee. (Kinda the same way I was expecting them to kill off Pendergast in [i]SG-1[/i] last week after they told us his first name...) Regardless, it's definitely a shame Billy's gone, because he provided a wonderfully sweet and gentle counterbalance to just about everyone else on the cast � someone who's not in the military, isn't in a position requiring cold-hearted decisions every day, and not a raving bitch who belongs on the cast of [i]Desperate Housewives[/i]. Still, it's not [i]Battlestar Galactica[/i] if they're not making controversial and series-changing decisions that affect a great many members of the cast. So now they've reduced the Love Trapezoid (Billy/Dee, Dee/Apollo, Apollo/Starbuck) back to the classic Love Triangle instead. Did anyone notice that Starbuck was hanging around Lee's sickbay bed, in a too-similar fashion to how Dee was hanging around outside the pilots' barracks after Lee's unscheduled spacewalk in "Resurrection Ship"? Moving on, I [i]did[/i] anticipate Adama using the old corpse of Sharon Mk. I as a ploy against the terrorists, from the second he suddenly decided to cave. Knowing his character and his interactions with Sharon Mk. II so far, it made little sense for him to so suddenly, without any outward (to the camera) indication of conflicting feelings or angst, decide to kill Sharon (and her baby) just to satisfy a bunch of whack-job terrorists. Because I have the feeling that Adama's character has absolutely zero respect for anyone who resorts to terrorism to get what they want. And of course, there's the subtle message buried in there that the terrorists are really just striking out in some way because they're angry and pissed off at The Establishment for whatever reason. Because after all, a dead husband is really a pretty lousy excuse for taking hostages and trying to gun down Colonial marines... Going back to Sharon, it really kills me some times how harshly they keep treating her, even though it makes perfect and nearly indisputable sense for them to be so fearful. After all, Sharon has rather clearly stated that she means no harm to the fleet, and demonstrated on numerous occasions that she wants to help protect them as well. I don't think that all of her actions can truly be justified by self-preservation alone, even though that's what Adama seems to desperately want to believe, in order to keep Sharon listed under the "Enemies" category. Based on his great speech in the miniseries, it's obvious that Adama had already arrived at a very similar conclusion to the one that the Cylons apparently came to, the cause for them wiping out all the Colonies. Heck, I've had some similar thoughts about the problems of society myself. The key difference is: is it right to thoughtlessly wipe out millions or billions of people just for the opportunity to start over? What kind of a new beginning is that if it's achieved by genocide, anyway? Getting back to the point, I think that Adama seems to be gradually realizing that Sharon is not the enemy... and maybe, also, that the Cylons as a whole might only be the enemy because they're still hunting the fleet. We'll have to see where exactly this leads as time goes on. It'll probably all come to a head when it's time for Sharon to give birth to her (and *snicker* Baltar's) daughter. I'm guessing that might be around this season's finale, depending on how much time it takes... It's great to be back on the road, after the last two potholes. I also look forward to next week, when we see more of the [i]Pegasus[/i]! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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