That would fit well within the framework of US military justice. Officers always receive harsher punishments than enlisted because officers are held to a higher standard (at least that’s how it’s supposed to work).
Some of them will undoubtedly get off with a slap on the wrist, but some of them: Seelix, Racetack, The marines that executed the Quoram, Conners, the rapists dereerve whatevers coming. And I hope that they just to don’t skip over the ramifications for these people. I want to see some payback.
I definitely feel that those who engaged in direct violence should be dealt with; brig time, laundry, prison ship, etc.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that Conners and Gage were brought on by the writers to establish an atmosphere of big-time dread. Their presence made us, the viewers, fear for how horrible things could get. Their task done, they’re going to disappear back into the woodwork.
Also, Gage, as much as he deserves punishment for what he did on Pegasus, didn’t actually do much this time around. Thank God almighty he didn’t carry through with his talk. I guess the mutiny just didn’t last long enough and the writers figured they’d already gone there, no need to do so again.
If I were him, though, I’d keep my big mouth very, very shut. Helo doesn’t seem like the sort to seek him out, but he might if he had reason to think Gage was still getting ideas. Of course, I wouldn’t say the same about Athena and then there are all of Gina’s sisters who soon be all over the place.
Certainly all the Marines that killed the Quorum members should be executed, so should all the persons who allowed Zarek to kill the deck chief, and all those who were present when Conner was about to kill Lee. (Sorry Racetrack, time for you to find a bullet in the head) Narcho also. And those are just the ones I can think of that need to be killed for what they did.
I hate feeling bood-thirsty like this, but I agree with you, and I would definitely throw in Gage.
I agree with you.
Welcome to the Forum, Scytale.
RDM said in the podcast that offscreen characters like racetrack and skulls who participated in the mutiny were shipped off to the prison ship.
i wonder if we’ll ever see them again. i mean they really must be running out of pilots by now. hotdog and starbuck. i guess having the cylons fly cap is necessary.
Yeah, I just listened to the podcast and had a major “ohhh, okay–that’s why they’re arming Baltar…” moment. As a solution, it makes sense–can’t really let them go back to work because you can’t trust them, yet there’s no reason to reduce the human population by that much with executions en masse. In terms of the story, I really wish somebody had mentioned that in the show. Usually, I like having to draw inferences, but giving the Baltarites weapons was just so out there that I needed this little piece of info to make sense of it. I kind of hope we see them again before the end, or at least hear onscreen that they’re on the prison ship, though.
It would have been nice to know how that all shook out, but listening to the podcast is like the light turning on for sure.
I love RDM. I love his podcast. But I wish that info like this had been worked into the show somehow. It feels like a letdown when I listen to the podcast and learn that we’re never going to find out on screen some piece of information I thought was going to play out later. Some story points are not that vital and can be left to the audience’s imagination, but I don’t think this is one of them. All that stuff about how the Galactica was breaking up into little bits of independently ruled population, made worse because a large part of the crew had to be sent to prison, would have been great to see. We’d have closure on those recurring characters we’d come to care for (even if we kinda hated them at this point), and the Balcubine situation would have made more sense. And it would have breathed some epicness (word? it is now) into this episode, which otherwise felt kind of soap opera-ish.
But anyway, I don’t like to rant on RDM. He was probably spinning a lot of plates at that point in the production process. I just like all of my relevant information to be canon and in-universe.
While I’m left wondering why we either don’t have an extra episode or two or why certain episodes had certain scenes, ultimately I have ot trust to the people who made such a great show for so long, and I have to admire RDM’s blatant honesty. Sure, I have to listen to a podcast and watch online content to get it all (the most recent online websisodes added a TON of depth to the mutiny that really made it feel more genuine), but at this point I’m posting on a forum about the show, so I’m fairly invested in it as-is, and it’s more refreshing to know the creative minds behind it are thinking about these things, and some things that never crossed my mind, and just had to bow to the reality of making a product that addresses the most important issues, even if I’m sometimes unsure their decisions are the best.
But I’m not running three TV shows and spending my evenings admiring my Emmy and Peabody Awards, so what do I know?
I’m hoping that maybe some of those scenes were actually filmed, and might appear in a “deleted scenes” section of a future DVD. Think I’m being too optimistic?