Well...(to jump in just a little), I think that in the first case at least...how can I put this?
You don't threaten Lee Adama in front of Kara Thrace. You just don't. If you do, it's your own fault if bad things happen to you. I would have expected Racetrack and Skulls to know that when it comes to Lee Adama, Kara Thrace will NOT hesitate. If it's a choice between their lives and Lee Adama's, well that's just too bad for them - no one gets to hurt Lee.
(I did find myself giggling during the episode though because Gaeta, seriously? Your first priority should have been tossing Kara out an airlock if you wanted the mutiny to work out at all...)
Sorry, I actually loved this episode immensely, and I still love the show to an enormous degree, but I think it's worth noting that Kara probably wouldn't have defaulted to 'insanely hardcore' so quickly if it hadn't been Lee they'd threatened. I still love everyone (well...maybe not Zarek, and definitely not Connor, but everyone else) and this episode hurt to watch, but I...well, I loved that almost everyone else was still sympathetic, and still, from their point of view, logical in their course of action, and yet...no matter what they do, it all ends horribly and nastily, and won't help...and, well, weirdly, when I was watching this episode I kept thinking of the Irish Civil War. No one was 'wrong' there either, everyone had good reasons for what they did, everyone had been wounded and...well, to be honest you don't often see that kind of 'messiness' represented in drama. It's too confusing, too difficult to follow, and I love that BSG actually went there...that it could present precisely the vicious human catastrophe of a civil war where no one is entirely wrong and have make sense, because we have so much history with these characters, and understand their positions so well.
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You don't threaten Lee Adama in front of Kara Thrace. You just don't. If you do, it's your own fault if bad things happen to you. I would have expected Racetrack and Skulls to know that when it comes to Lee Adama, Kara Thrace will NOT hesitate. If it's a choice between their lives and Lee Adama's, well that's just too bad for them - no one gets to hurt Lee.
(I did find myself giggling during the episode though because Gaeta, seriously? Your first priority should have been tossing Kara out an airlock if you wanted the mutiny to work out at all...)
Sorry, I actually loved this episode immensely, and I still love the show to an enormous degree, but I think it's worth noting that Kara probably wouldn't have defaulted to 'insanely hardcore' so quickly if it hadn't been Lee they'd threatened. I still love everyone (well...maybe not Zarek, and definitely not Connor, but everyone else) and this episode hurt to watch, but I...well, I loved that almost everyone else was still sympathetic, and still, from their point of view, logical in their course of action, and yet...no matter what they do, it all ends horribly and nastily, and won't help...and, well, weirdly, when I was watching this episode I kept thinking of the Irish Civil War. No one was 'wrong' there either, everyone had good reasons for what they did, everyone had been wounded and...well, to be honest you don't often see that kind of 'messiness' represented in drama. It's too confusing, too difficult to follow, and I love that BSG actually went there...that it could present precisely the vicious human catastrophe of a civil war where no one is entirely wrong and have make sense, because we have so much history with these characters, and understand their positions so well.
Sorry, didn't mean to rant at you!