04-23-2009, 07:44 AM
Fretty Wrote:Now I think the thing we're all missing here is this:
Do you think that if the events that started the BSG series were to come true that you would actually have a CHOICE as to who is left to lead you?
Ha!
Oh, by the way, the answer is 'no'.
I think they lucked out pretty darn good with Adama, all things considered.
Oh, and if you think that stoic personality types like those mentioned in this thread actually do exist, you're kidding yourselves (and if they do, they are VERY few and far between). At least BSG kept it somewhat realistic. They have a character who can hold himself together when infront of the people he leads, but this does not mean that he is emotionless or 'perfect' at all times (especially when alone or in the company of close friends).
If I wanted to watch Kirk, I'd watch Kirk (and I have and still do). But this wasn't Star Trek, it was BSG...two very different shows, so why expect the same characters?
I think I could have dealt with one break down. I probably could have dealt with two break downs. But when each episode contains a break down it gets to be a bit much.
1. Vomiting on himself in the alley after drinking too much in a strip club
2. Drinking while the human race needs him (x 8):
a. Drinking himself to the brink of passing out while in command of the human race's best ship and only chance for survival
b. Drinking himself to the point of lost judgment while in command of the last 50,000 people in the human race
3. Drinking himself to the point where he needed to splash paint on himself and fall in it
4. Drinking himself to the point of trying to convince a frakin cyclon to shoot him
5. Brushing his teeth forcefully and drooling the paste/saliva all over because he can't keep it together for a full 30 second teeth brushing session
6. Abandoning the fleet and his post because he has a crush
I think I could come up with about 10 more if I went back and watched the episodes. I finally got to the point where I started tuning out the "adama moments"
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison