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Post by Rachael on Mar 4, 2007 13:32:09 GMT -5
Right there with ya. I'm beginning to dislike her intensely. At least in this episode. She's becoming despotic. And now we get a total 180. whoosh... I think that she is mainly out to get Baltar. Thank goodness she saw reason with Tyrol. Admiral Adama was scary/then fatherly. Thing is, as much as I hate to admit it, Adama was right. He's a military leader, and those were members of his crew refusing to work. That's mutiny, and can't be allowed to happen on his ship. Once you let it go a single time, then discipline is shot to hell. I don't know that I'd've gone so far as to back his wife up against the wall and threaten to shoot her, but still. OTOH, the people on the refinery ship are civilians. They have every right, in a democratic society, to refuse to work until their complaints are addressed. They should have continued on strike. Of course, Roslin could force them to work, much as the President can order striking airline employees back to work. But she couldn't really shoot anyone, not if she wants to maintain that she's not a despot.
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Post by Shan on Mar 4, 2007 18:09:29 GMT -5
And now we get a total 180. whoosh... I think that she is mainly out to get Baltar. Thank goodness she saw reason with Tyrol. Admiral Adama was scary/then fatherly. Thing is, as much as I hate to admit it, Adama was right. He's a military leader, and those were members of his crew refusing to work. That's mutiny, and can't be allowed to happen on his ship. Once you let it go a single time, then discipline is shot to hell. I don't know that I'd've gone so far as to back his wife up against the wall and threaten to shoot her, but still. OTOH, the people on the refinery ship are civilians. They have every right, in a democratic society, to refuse to work until their complaints are addressed. They should have continued on strike. Of course, Roslin could force them to work, much as the President can order striking airline employees back to work. But she couldn't really shoot anyone, not if she wants to maintain that she's not a despot. So maybe where it was "wonky" is that a someone like Tyrol, subject to military control, was always going to have a hell of a time representing the striking civilian workers. Which, yes, because the military and civilian sides of the fleet are so often in conflict with each other.
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Post by Shan on Mar 4, 2007 18:34:18 GMT -5
And now we get a total 180. whoosh... I think that she is mainly out to get Baltar. Thank goodness she saw reason with Tyrol. Admiral Adama was scary/then fatherly. Baltar's book was intended so sow the seeds of unrest among the worker bees and it was succeeding. Nasty piece of work that. But to what end, on his part, other than to re-instate himself as the center of the fleet's attention? There are ever so many ways he could have done that by the leaking-out of correspondence. Considering his previous history it seemed...kind of false to me that Baltar would have chosen to foment (or insert himself in a pre-existing) class struggle in order to exercise his need for attention. Yes, previous episodes DID set us up for examining a lot of class and cultural conflict amongst the humans in the fleet, but Baltar is known for acting only in his own self-interest, no matter what words come out of his mout. So his painting himself as a "working-class hero" mostly makes me
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