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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [qb]Which goes back to the discussion of what kind of commander is Adama. I think [b]Reverend[/b] has it spot on, and I remember making this argument a long time back. Adama [i]isn't[/i] a good commander, and subsequent flashbacks have revealed this. He saw one mission in the war, got back in thanks to nepotism, fucked up his real command, and got handed Galactica to quietly wait out retirement. And looking at the crew, at least at the start of the miniseries draws it out even further; the troublesome pilot that decks superior officers, the fraternizing pilot and enlisted crew chief, and the drunk mess of an XO. The only apparent blemish on this view is Lee's callsign as Apollo, which he presumably got because he was the son of a "god," presumably meaning William Adama. But one flight instructor's ironic sarcasm can explain that.[/qb][/QUOTE]I agree, this is a spot-on analysis. And it wildly - but correctly - deviates from the conventional wisdom that was flying around at the time of the "Pegasus/Resurrection Ship" arc, that Adama was a true leader of men, while Cain was obviously a peacetime commander who probably got where she was via cushy staff assignments, and was consequently way out of her depth when faced with a real war. Instead, there have been a string of revelations that have chipped away at Adama's halo. And as Herb says, there are parallels between the two commanders' actions since the war started, but only at a cursory glance - Adama abandoned the non-FTL ships because he had no choice, he couldn't help them, Cain could have helped those ships but chose not to; Tigh lost control of his men during that massacre, while Cain's men were acting under her orders transmitted via her XO and pet Aussie. No, I think it's more about Adama and Cain as mirrors of each other. Cain, it transpires, was the successful peaceime commander who got where she was by merit; Adama wasn't as succesful, getting where he was by influence (initially) and, bearing in mind how much longer it took him to reach a senior-but-lower rank than Cain held, maybe only his seniority and years-in-service. But when they found themselves faced with a cataclysmic war, the professional went to pieces, the fuckup pulled things together. Which really brings us down to their respective characters, again. . . [/QB][/QUOTE]
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