Battlestar Galactica: Sine Qua Non...

[fajrdrako]

What is the title of this episode referring to?

This is maybe the first episode of Battlestar Galactica that I really didn't much like, except that Lee Adama was beautiful. The characters I have loved in this show just aren't themselves any more, except perhaps for Lee. It was no joy to see Boomer as an assassin, or Lumpkin as delusional, or Starbuck as sidelined, or Tigh and Adama fighting, and many of the characters I have liked just not there.

What happened to the phenomenal oomph that Starbuck and Lumpkin (for example) used to have?

I don't even understand the theme of Lee becoming President, though it was obvious that he was the perfect choice long before it came to it. (Ignoring the thousands of people in the fleet that we don't know.) I thought the point was to make it all properly democratic because Zarek would never be acceptable to the military (i.e., Adama) as President. But Adama has resigned and taken off, and we went straight from Lee saying "President? No way!" to being sworn into office. Wasn't there - an election? Procedure? Anything? The willingness is all?

Normally, even in the less interesting episodes, I have my love and respect for Adama to keep me going. But that didn't work here.

Comments

E.C. Tubb?

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When was that author connected to BSG? Space: 1999, I knew about.

Re: E.C. Tubb?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

E.C. Tubb had no connection to Battlestar Galactica that I know of. But he had a long series of novels (which I loved) about a hero-adventurer named Earl Dumarest who was wandering the planets looking for Earth, which was where he'd been born. He never found it.