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likeadeuce happy these days, which is important as a bribe), and query/thought:
In Bastille Day, we hear Laura Roslin give us the following bit of backstory about him:
"I watched Adar offer to give him a full pardon if he'd apologize and give up violence as a means of political change, and he refused."
Most people when hearing Dee argue with Billy about whether Zarek is/was a terrorist or not focus on her statement that he blew up a building. Which probably associates Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma for Americans, and for Europeans sounds more like "terrorist" as well. However: what kind of terrorist gets offered a full pardon if he says he's really sorry and promises not to do it again? Especially if pre-war society in the Colonies is meant to strongly parallel Western or specifically American one?
Of course later events in s2 and so far s3 show Zarek to be both a ruthless customer with a taste for power and have some principles, but I'm wondering about the backstory now, and the implication for Colonial society. Especially as Adar, given the glimpse we get of him in Epiphanies and the various tidbits revealed in dialogue, doesn't seem to have been the naive type - anything but. Or the type to do something which would have made him look really bad in front of his electorate, which pardoning a universally despised terrorist certainly would have.
So either the reason/cause Zarek blew up that building for must have been rather popular in the Colonies as well, and/or something was rather rotten in the state of Caprica even before the Cylons attacked. Thoughts?
likeadeuce happy these days, which is important as a bribe), and query/thought:In Bastille Day, we hear Laura Roslin give us the following bit of backstory about him:
"I watched Adar offer to give him a full pardon if he'd apologize and give up violence as a means of political change, and he refused."
Most people when hearing Dee argue with Billy about whether Zarek is/was a terrorist or not focus on her statement that he blew up a building. Which probably associates Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma for Americans, and for Europeans sounds more like "terrorist" as well. However: what kind of terrorist gets offered a full pardon if he says he's really sorry and promises not to do it again? Especially if pre-war society in the Colonies is meant to strongly parallel Western or specifically American one?
Of course later events in s2 and so far s3 show Zarek to be both a ruthless customer with a taste for power and have some principles, but I'm wondering about the backstory now, and the implication for Colonial society. Especially as Adar, given the glimpse we get of him in Epiphanies and the various tidbits revealed in dialogue, doesn't seem to have been the naive type - anything but. Or the type to do something which would have made him look really bad in front of his electorate, which pardoning a universally despised terrorist certainly would have.
So either the reason/cause Zarek blew up that building for must have been rather popular in the Colonies as well, and/or something was rather rotten in the state of Caprica even before the Cylons attacked. Thoughts?
