But anyways, you've touched upon one of my major complaints about BSG, which was especially present in the miniseries and early episodes. Their tendency to put characters in situations where they're forced to make hard choices, and then providing the viewers and sometimes the characters themselves with information that robs those choice of a lot of their impact.
When they knew the Cylons were going to be showing up soon and had to decide whether to risk sticking around for awhile to evacuate more people or run right away, and they decide to run. But then conveniently they see the Cylons show up just as they're getting ready to warp out! Which means that they wouldn't have had time to evacuate anyone anyways so they obviously made the right choice!
Does Gaius frame an innocent person to save his own ass, or does he refuse and face up to the consequences? He chooses to save his own ass and frame an innocent person! The bastard! But wait! It actually _was_ a Cylon, even though he didn't know it, so maybe he's not an irredeemable bastard? (At least the emotional appeal certainly seems to be there even though from a logical perspective it shouldn't make a difference at all since Gaius didn't know at the time.)
There are other examples that i won't cite for obvious spoilery reasons :)
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But anyways, you've touched upon one of my major complaints about BSG, which was especially present in the miniseries and early episodes. Their tendency to put characters in situations where they're forced to make hard choices, and then providing the viewers and sometimes the characters themselves with information that robs those choice of a lot of their impact.
When they knew the Cylons were going to be showing up soon and had to decide whether to risk sticking around for awhile to evacuate more people or run right away, and they decide to run. But then conveniently they see the Cylons show up just as they're getting ready to warp out! Which means that they wouldn't have had time to evacuate anyone anyways so they obviously made the right choice!
Does Gaius frame an innocent person to save his own ass, or does he refuse and face up to the consequences? He chooses to save his own ass and frame an innocent person! The bastard! But wait! It actually _was_ a Cylon, even though he didn't know it, so maybe he's not an irredeemable bastard? (At least the emotional appeal certainly seems to be there even though from a logical perspective it shouldn't make a difference at all since Gaius didn't know at the time.)
There are other examples that i won't cite for obvious spoilery reasons :)