BattleStar Galactica:Season 3.0--10/27/06--Arc 4

[Truth Seeker]

No kiddin'

I loved Baltar's pleading to Caprica followed by the calm "I should have started with that." He's just so duplicitous.

 

[Joker]

I personally see all the contrived stuff as them playing out their part in the prophecy and not having any real choice in what they do.

Still the best series I have ever seen.

 

[FraserRonald]

I got the impression that is WAS a hard and fast deadline, set explicitly by Zarek. He was doing this so Roslin wouldn't have to. I think Zarek felt, perhaps rightly and perhaps not, that once Roslin was back to being President that she would be culpable in it. Or perhaps, once she was President, she would find out and stop it. Either way, if it were public, there would have been a witch-hunt, and Zarek knew this, so he made sure that it was done quietly. Roslin doesn't have a set of morals that allow her to do that - just as Zarek doesn't have a set of morals to pardon everyone.

I think Zarek was being honest when he told Roslin he did it because she couldn't. I figured the deadline was there so that Roslin wouldn't be involved at all in the proceedings, because--as you said--she would be culpable if it continued under her watch. Zarek is supposed to be a man of principle, which has wavered a few times through the show, but I hope they do keep him as the VP. He would make an excellent counterpoint to Roslin. He's there to remind her of the harsh realities and the consequences of actions she might entertain.

Now all they need to do is find a role for Dirk Benedict.

Just kidding!

 

[Joker]

Starbuck's dad.

 

[FraserRonald]

Starbuck's dad.

Cross-over-tastic!

Are you sure you don't work for the Networks?