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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2530223" data-attributes="member: 151">Except that it's not that simple, IMHO.  Zarek has a LOT of loyal followers, many of whom believe they owe him their liberty and what priveleges they enjoy.  Kill him and you've got dissension in the fleet.  Who mines your water and does your base menial labor then?  We just saw one follower so dedicated he was willing to attempt to assinate the president's top aide and one of the highest ranking officers in the fleet (and join in a plot to assinate it's most senior officer).At the same time, you have thousands of civilians who are need to be reassured that they have some sort of future.  Adama knew that when he told the big lie and Roslin knows it, too.  Turn the fleet into an armed prison camp where ANYONE can be a cylon...and within hours, there will be lots of dead people who 'might have been' a cylon.  The fleet will rapidly divide and self-destruct.  I'm not sure why you're suprised at Roslin's actions, either.  She's been fairly consistent with the cylon agents.  She considers them like an asp clutched to the chest: they lie, they tempt and if you hold them too long, they'll bite.  As far as she's concerned, it's in their nature and if you keep them around, you're inviting the consequences.  Don't mistake Roslin's egalitarian views with pure touchy-feely sentimentality...they're not the same thing.  The last time she listened to a cylon, she suspected Adama of being a cylon.  The last time Adama talked to a cylon face-to-face, he got a chestful of lead.  I'm fairly sure that when push comes to shove, she's more than ready to toss Boomer-C out an airlock, and Helo too, if necessary.  Frankly, he's damaged goods.IMHO,  a big part of the message of this episode was: "we have to be more flexible if we're going to survive."  Adama didn't say, 'it's all right to do what you did'; he said 'I understand why you did what you did, and while I'm not happy, I'm not angry any more and we have important things to do'.Poor Kara...I think she honestly thought they were going to stage a rescue operation.  Or maybe she just really, really hoped it was so.  Wonder what, if anything, will happen with those quixotic folks.  I'll kind of miss the Caprica interludes, now that they're over.</blockquote>

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