Thanks for the separate cut-tags; I may be kidding myself, thinking I can stay unspoiled until July, but I'm trying to avoid season 2 speculation (from official sources) anyway.
At the risk of shamelessly fangirling this post, I so enjoyed your analysis of the Adama-Roslin balance. I agree that they need each other, and I found it fascinating to watch them trust each other to some degree but how it only takes them so far.
Lee Adama and Laura Roslin started to bond in the miniseries, and it's interesting that he never has a problem with her as an authority figure.
I think he played an extremely important role in her staying the president in the first place, actually. It's on three separate occasions that he backs her up in the pilot, out of a mixture of respect for the law and respect for her as a person, and the way he accepts her authority has ramifications beyond their personal relationship. I don't think he gave that hours of thought, but he set the precedent for accepting her authority right there at the start.
I imagine things would have gone very differently if the first (relatively high-ranking) representative of the military she'd have had to deal with after being sworn in had gone, '43rd in the line of succession? Secretary of Education? Yeah, right.'
Any victory you gain is just tempory, but conversely, so is any defeat. If there is no other option or the price is too high to pay, you surrender, and plan for another day.
This is just excellent.
Which brings me to Adama throughout the first season. Everything is personal to him, which makes him both likeable and frustrating.
Exactly. I like him a lot, even as I think he's dead wrong in KLG. And I found that contrast fascinating. To me, he's clearly not a guy who's in favour of a military dictatorship or unaware of the dangers. I was just saying to someone else that I think in theory, from an outside perspective, he might even agree with what Lee is saying in the episode. (The scene between him and Roslin talking about using the military as police is one of my favourites, because it makes that aspect of his character clear and it adds that extra layer to their balance: Roslin wants him to trust her that she will keep the military from going too far, even if the immediate question is, 'How?') But he's really not about theory, or the big picture, when it gets personal, and it's a huge blind spot.
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At the risk of shamelessly fangirling this post, I so enjoyed your analysis of the Adama-Roslin balance. I agree that they need each other, and I found it fascinating to watch them trust each other to some degree but how it only takes them so far.
Lee Adama and Laura Roslin started to bond in the miniseries, and it's interesting that he never has a problem with her as an authority figure.
I think he played an extremely important role in her staying the president in the first place, actually. It's on three separate occasions that he backs her up in the pilot, out of a mixture of respect for the law and respect for her as a person, and the way he accepts her authority has ramifications beyond their personal relationship. I don't think he gave that hours of thought, but he set the precedent for accepting her authority right there at the start.
I imagine things would have gone very differently if the first (relatively high-ranking) representative of the military she'd have had to deal with after being sworn in had gone, '43rd in the line of succession? Secretary of Education? Yeah, right.'
Any victory you gain is just tempory, but conversely, so is any defeat. If there is no other option or the price is too high to pay, you surrender, and plan for another day.
This is just excellent.
Which brings me to Adama throughout the first season. Everything is personal to him, which makes him both likeable and frustrating.
Exactly. I like him a lot, even as I think he's dead wrong in KLG. And I found that contrast fascinating. To me, he's clearly not a guy who's in favour of a military dictatorship or unaware of the dangers. I was just saying to someone else that I think in theory, from an outside perspective, he might even agree with what Lee is saying in the episode. (The scene between him and Roslin talking about using the military as police is one of my favourites, because it makes that aspect of his character clear and it adds that extra layer to their balance: Roslin wants him to trust her that she will keep the military from going too far, even if the immediate question is, 'How?') But he's really not about theory, or the big picture, when it gets personal, and it's a huge blind spot.