I hadn't been able to make up my mind on this scene for ages, though my analysis is basically the same as yours. My feeling is that it all depends on what they do next.
If Adama's smackdown of Starbuck is made to seem as 'exactly what she needed' and 'the thing that got her back on her feet' and the cure for her ills, I. Will. Throw. Things. If in a few episodes their relationship is back to being all loving and kind and Adama never has to pay a price for the things he said to her, I'll scream.
However, if they can work it so that Kara manages to put herself back together (and that is an act of will on her part, not his) temporarily at least, and then...those issues come back and bite everyone, but especially Adama, in the ass...then I can live with it.
As long as there are consequences, I can live with it, you know? Nothing he said seemed that out of character for Adama - but he better not get to be Kara's loving father after this - not without making some kind of reparation first.
There needs to be a payoff to that scene that isn't "proof that Adama is awesome."
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I hadn't been able to make up my mind on this scene for ages, though my analysis is basically the same as yours. My feeling is that it all depends on what they do next.
If Adama's smackdown of Starbuck is made to seem as 'exactly what she needed' and 'the thing that got her back on her feet' and the cure for her ills, I. Will. Throw. Things. If in a few episodes their relationship is back to being all loving and kind and Adama never has to pay a price for the things he said to her, I'll scream.
However, if they can work it so that Kara manages to put herself back together (and that is an act of will on her part, not his) temporarily at least, and then...those issues come back and bite everyone, but especially Adama, in the ass...then I can live with it.
As long as there are consequences, I can live with it, you know? Nothing he said seemed that out of character for Adama - but he better not get to be Kara's loving father after this - not without making some kind of reparation first.
There needs to be a payoff to that scene that isn't "proof that Adama is awesome."