No, I agree! Through the first four or so eps I thought she was solidly in character despite her return from the dead. She was just under immense pressure. And yeah, good call that she's smart enough to know it's NOT nuts.
This is what I mean by OOC. If she's smart enough to know it's not a crazy thing to think that the chick who came back from the dead might be a cylon, then why is part of her problem the rage of "How dare anyone not trust me???". She isn't dumb. She also wasn't hysterical enough to completely disregard this and that she was so nasty and affronted didn't ring true to me at all.
It was so obvious that they had him give her a ship because it suited the writers' agenda and not because it made character sense. It's one of Ron's stupider 'oh I thought the audience would roll with it' moments. And yeah, the lack of payoff makes it particularly galling. Gaeta lost his leg! :(((
It was also a great big timewaster, which irks me even more. Guess what - we didn't need any of this plot to get us to this point (and I include Gaeta actually getting a story - it ALL could have been cut). There was absolutely no need to drag out the demetrious storyline. Guess what? They find a heavy raider two days into the search. Kara lets the CYlon on board. SHe wants to take the Demetrious - Helo who is in charge says NO, but allows her and a crew to head to the basestar in a raptor. Helo goes with, and sharon and sam. Gaeta takes the Deme bac and reports the scary ass plan. Then the basestar stuff happens. They jump back to the fleet and stand down. All in ONE FREAKING exciting episode! Without a completely gratuitious couple of killings and maimings. (Maybe Barolay needs to die to make the cylon stuff but Gunny Mathias and Gaeta shoulda been fine) Except that we needed to fill five episodes so Kara treating everyone like garbage and a lot of dumb deaths got added in. I would give up Awesome Gaeta scenes if the plot moved faster. (My dislike of Gaeta losing hsi leg is that it was purely a chain yank, it marginalizes an actor who is a LOT better than Trucco or SHarma, and it sets Gaeta up to devolve into a really bitter, angry character and snce thats EVERY Other CHARACTER on bsg, I don't need it)
Trucco as an actor annoys me - I can admit that. Sam as a character was one I liked until the endless CYlon angst and then I got bored because ultimately it will end badly.
Point - I assume that the only people who survive to the final episode are main cast, but I am going to be really annoyed if we have to sit thru secondary redshirt death of the week until the final episode. The show used to be more daring. There was a point where I would believe that Roslin would let Baltar die. But Kara marysued her way back to life (with, after all is said and done, no consequences at all) and guess what? Bill, Lee, Kara, Baltar and SHaron/Six will all be standing in the final episode NO MATTER WHAT. And I would not be shocked to see Roslin there as well.
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This is what I mean by OOC. If she's smart enough to know it's not a crazy thing to think that the chick who came back from the dead might be a cylon, then why is part of her problem the rage of "How dare anyone not trust me???". She isn't dumb. She also wasn't hysterical enough to completely disregard this and that she was so nasty and affronted didn't ring true to me at all.
It was so obvious that they had him give her a ship because it suited the writers' agenda and not because it made character sense. It's one of Ron's stupider 'oh I thought the audience would roll with it' moments. And yeah, the lack of payoff makes it particularly galling. Gaeta lost his leg! :(((
It was also a great big timewaster, which irks me even more. Guess what - we didn't need any of this plot to get us to this point (and I include Gaeta actually getting a story - it ALL could have been cut). There was absolutely no need to drag out the demetrious storyline. Guess what? They find a heavy raider two days into the search. Kara lets the CYlon on board. SHe wants to take the Demetrious - Helo who is in charge says NO, but allows her and a crew to head to the basestar in a raptor. Helo goes with, and sharon and sam. Gaeta takes the Deme bac and reports the scary ass plan.
Then the basestar stuff happens. They jump back to the fleet and stand down. All in ONE FREAKING exciting episode! Without a completely gratuitious couple of killings and maimings. (Maybe Barolay needs to die to make the cylon stuff but Gunny Mathias and Gaeta shoulda been fine) Except that we needed to fill five episodes so Kara treating everyone like garbage and a lot of dumb deaths got added in. I would give up Awesome Gaeta scenes if the plot moved faster. (My dislike of Gaeta losing hsi leg is that it was purely a chain yank, it marginalizes an actor who is a LOT better than Trucco or SHarma, and it sets Gaeta up to devolve into a really bitter, angry character and snce thats EVERY Other CHARACTER on bsg, I don't need it)
Trucco as an actor annoys me - I can admit that. Sam as a character was one I liked until the endless CYlon angst and then I got bored because ultimately it will end badly.
Point - I assume that the only people who survive to the final episode are main cast, but I am going to be really annoyed if we have to sit thru secondary redshirt death of the week until the final episode. The show used to be more daring. There was a point where I would believe that Roslin would let Baltar die. But Kara marysued her way back to life (with, after all is said and done, no consequences at all) and guess what? Bill, Lee, Kara, Baltar and SHaron/Six will all be standing in the final episode NO MATTER WHAT. And I would not be shocked to see Roslin there as well.