No, I agree, given the plot, the Quorum massacre couldn't have been the catalyst because Zarek wouldn't have admitted that to her, but it's still an interesting thought.
And oh now I'm really hoping that next week we do see her confronted with the blood everywhere (even though I doubt we will see that) because oh gods Mary McDonnell would nail that scene.
I wish I were better at ignoring A/R. I know I'd be happier if I could and I used to be much better at it. I think I'd steeled myself to deal with it, but hadn't realised quite how different canonical A/R would feel to me, or, if I'm being uncharitable, quite how hard the writers would push it. I do really hope that it's just the writer being unsubtle. I really enjoyed Laura in the last episode when she WAS all about her personal issues with Zarek and how she wasn't going to let him assume the presidency.
I think that if Gaeta was entitled to a court-martial he probably got one, and probably got a fair one, considering that mutiny in time of war is a crime that I think is punishable by execution, and he can't really mount much of a defense against that. In turn, Zarek's not military but he did order the deaths of eleven people, so it's not exactly ambiguous there either.
But one of the reasons I love the firing squad deaths is that they're so bleak. So devoid of glory. So...small. After everything, all the mutinies, all the death, all the betrayals, here is where the line ended up being drawn, and...it's all so arbitrary. I mean, yes, what happened in this mutiny was more violent and brutal than before. Yes I understand why this is the place where the line got drawn. But at the same time, the entire situation is kind of absurdist and pointless.
Zarek and Gaeta crossed a line that Adama can't uncross, and that, in fact, Adama kept right on crossing. Because there was nothing else to do and there was no going back.
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Date: 2009-02-08 08:41 pm (UTC)And oh now I'm really hoping that next week we do see her confronted with the blood everywhere (even though I doubt we will see that) because oh gods Mary McDonnell would nail that scene.
I wish I were better at ignoring A/R. I know I'd be happier if I could and I used to be much better at it. I think I'd steeled myself to deal with it, but hadn't realised quite how different canonical A/R would feel to me, or, if I'm being uncharitable, quite how hard the writers would push it. I do really hope that it's just the writer being unsubtle. I really enjoyed Laura in the last episode when she WAS all about her personal issues with Zarek and how she wasn't going to let him assume the presidency.
I think that if Gaeta was entitled to a court-martial he probably got one, and probably got a fair one, considering that mutiny in time of war is a crime that I think is punishable by execution, and he can't really mount much of a defense against that. In turn, Zarek's not military but he did order the deaths of eleven people, so it's not exactly ambiguous there either.
But one of the reasons I love the firing squad deaths is that they're so bleak. So devoid of glory. So...small. After everything, all the mutinies, all the death, all the betrayals, here is where the line ended up being drawn, and...it's all so arbitrary. I mean, yes, what happened in this mutiny was more violent and brutal than before. Yes I understand why this is the place where the line got drawn. But at the same time, the entire situation is kind of absurdist and pointless.
Zarek and Gaeta crossed a line that Adama can't uncross, and that, in fact, Adama kept right on crossing. Because there was nothing else to do and there was no going back.
And...I want to see the fallout.