AND THERE IT IS AGAIN.

[conuly]

35 minutes into Blood on the Scales, Zarek says to Gaeta "How would you have answered her? If you would have been here?"

How long has this been going on and I never noticed it? If you would have been.

OH SCREW THAT! I liked Felix, and though he was wrong, he wasn't wrong exactly... you know? If they could keep now-she-is-Athena alive, if they could keep baby Hera alive, if they could keep a Six alive in the Brig for season after season, eating food and drinking water that could go to humans, why couldn't the fleet give Gaeta the same deal? Nobody even ever killed Baltar in the end, and he has more followers!

Comments

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the final scene with Gaeta and Baltar. I got the sense Baltar was actually understanding how frakked up it is that after all he's done, Gaeta is the one they kill. It's an amazing instance of character growth in a man whose approach to life has been a series of shifting tactics for personal survival.

But, yeah. That was seriously a case of Gaeta getting killed because that's what happens when you try to shoot your admiral and fail, not because of any greater moral or legal reason.

This is doing unhappy things to the "queer = dead" tally for the series.

[conuly]

Yeah, somebody must like Baltar, because he's acting like an adult for a change.

But, yeah. That was seriously a case of Gaeta getting killed because that's what happens when you try to shoot your admiral and fail, not because of any greater moral or legal reason.

Yes, and really, he must have known the risks when he entered into this. I just... I liked him. They're really killing off nearly everybody this season.

[l33tminion]

Zarek is a would-be despot wrapped up in revolutionary pseudo-intellectualism, so it wouldn't be out of character for him to botch the grammar, assuming it wasn't just a case of writers got it wrong.

And there's no way in hell you lead a failed mutiny and don't end up dead.

[conuly]

THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE A WAY FOR GAETA TO DO SO.

[l33tminion]

The point of the character is that his life is as unfair as possible.

[conuly]

*sigh*

[azarias.livejournal.com]

And there's no way in hell you lead a failed mutiny and don't end up dead.

Whereas leading a military coup against your civilian government all works out in the end.

*sigh* I like that they killed him. I like it because it's fucked up that of all people, ALL people, Gaeta is the one to catch a bullet.

[conuly]

He should've... I don't know, been able to escape at the last minute. Somehow. Or... I don't know, been miraculously saved in a deus ex machina. With a literal deus.

[conuly]

Of course, if he *had* survived, I wouldn't've been happy either, you know.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the final scene with Gaeta and Baltar. I got the sense Baltar was actually understanding how frakked up it is that after all he's done, Gaeta is the one they kill. It's an amazing instance of character growth in a man whose approach to life has been a series of shifting tactics for personal survival.

But, yeah. That was seriously a case of Gaeta getting killed because that's what happens when you try to shoot your admiral and fail, not because of any greater moral or legal reason.

This is doing unhappy things to the "queer = dead" tally for the series.

[conuly]

Yeah, somebody must like Baltar, because he's acting like an adult for a change.

But, yeah. That was seriously a case of Gaeta getting killed because that's what happens when you try to shoot your admiral and fail, not because of any greater moral or legal reason.

Yes, and really, he must have known the risks when he entered into this. I just... I liked him. They're really killing off nearly everybody this season.

[l33tminion]

Zarek is a would-be despot wrapped up in revolutionary pseudo-intellectualism, so it wouldn't be out of character for him to botch the grammar, assuming it wasn't just a case of writers got it wrong.

And there's no way in hell you lead a failed mutiny and don't end up dead.

[conuly]

THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE A WAY FOR GAETA TO DO SO.

[l33tminion]

The point of the character is that his life is as unfair as possible.

[conuly]

*sigh*

[azarias.livejournal.com]

And there's no way in hell you lead a failed mutiny and don't end up dead.

Whereas leading a military coup against your civilian government all works out in the end.

*sigh* I like that they killed him. I like it because it's fucked up that of all people, ALL people, Gaeta is the one to catch a bullet.

[conuly]

He should've... I don't know, been able to escape at the last minute. Somehow. Or... I don't know, been miraculously saved in a deus ex machina. With a literal deus.

[conuly]

Of course, if he *had* survived, I wouldn't've been happy either, you know.