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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!

Date: 2009-02-15 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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