Before I begin I want to say it has been a long time, things in a good way have been nuts for me. A new position at work, I bought my first house ect ect. I have always kept up with the pod casts but not so much the forum. But I couldn’t rest until I vented this…
It was said best by the Admiral’s son in The Captain’s Hand. “command is about people.” That would be a lesson Adama would be wise to learn, however it might be way too late.
If anyone is treading the “people” like “Cylon machines” right now it is the two people at the top of the fleet, Admiral Adama and the so called never once elected president Laura Roslin. How much of this could have been avoided had they just listened, and had a simple conversation with their legal government. Had Adama gone to the Quorum and said, hey this technology can save our lives; and these Cylons with us are very much a kindred spirit then this whole mess might have worked out very differently. Hell I bet even someone could have found scripture of the 13 Kobal tribes reuniting. This would have not only have stopped the Vice President in his tracks, but he might even had gone along with it. But instead they put him into a position that he feels he must do something to stop the madness.
Laura Roslin once told Billy that the democracy will survive William Adama, but will it? Will is survive Laura Roslin? Look at what he and they are doing now.
I first want to know were Bill Adama gets off thinking that his word is the word that the fleet must follow. Where did the Adama go that lived in episode 33, the Adama that was going to let a ship leave the fleet? I haven’t gone and re-watched it but when Roslin calls him on it he said if there is a ship captain that thinks they can do better I won’t stop him.
What would happen in the United State or Canada or in other “free nations” if the highest ranking member of the military would arrest a member of the government without charge or legal cause. Joe Biden look out. What if our Generals said they wouldn’t allow Barrack Obama to be president? Is the fleet just a new banana republic now? One step above a gang and as Lee Adama called it? Would have a Commander Lee Adama of the Pegasus let the Admiral do this if he still had his more powerful Battlestar? Where is he now to again say that Admiral Stars don’t give him the right?
I can write for hours listing the charges against them, as I have other times in the past but I won’t. We have all seen it. We all know it, and on the pod cast we have talked about it. Enough is enough, this far “Adamlin” and no further. Adama needs to be stopped and Roslin just needs to go off and die. I hate to say that but it is true. Adama was just fine listening to the office of the president when she made him an Admiral. I kept having flashbacks to the episodes when Adama was shot and the “old” Tigh was in charge and fraking thing up.
I hope the munity is a success. I hope Adama goes right out an airlock. At least Roslin knows her time has come and gone.
One of the problems the Fleet has had from the start is the very strange and tenuous power-sharing arrangement Roslin and Adama agreed to in the miniseries. It sounds great then–President handles civilian decision, Commander/Admiral handles military decisions–but it only works if the civilian and military heads can agree on whether a particular issue is civilian or military. There’s no third branch or third party who gets to make the call when the other two parties are deadlocked, which leads to situations like the one we see here, where the Quorum tells the people they have the right to keep Cylon technology off their ships and the Admiral tells them they don’t because it’s a military decision. Adama is probably the one overstepping his boundaries here, because even he admitted that the Cylon alliance with full citizenship was a political decision, but there’s nobody to tell him he’s gone too far. So, maybe Lee should’ve signed up to be Chief Justice of that new court he was forming instead of Quorum delegate, and we might’ve avoided some grief. 