he was giving Lee confidence by passing on a family heirloom to 'help him'.
In an earlier episode, Starbuck had crashed and Adama risked the safety of the fleet to hunt for her. Lee didn't have a problem but on some level he questioned his father's devotion to him and asked what he would do if it were him and Adama said "You're my son I would Never give up looking for you." Adama lost another son that Starbuck had trained and he wasn't quite up to snuff as a pilot but was engaged to Starbuck who passed him in flight training. The other son supposedly died in a flight accident. I think Adama would spill out some of those feelings about his other son toward Starbuck. He possibly identifies with Starbuck because he too protected that other son's weakness like Starbuck and they share the love and guilt for that.
In the very first episode I believe, you see Baltar in bed with another woman and Six walks in and of course has an in depth conversation with him, lol. But the impression of a dangerous womanizer, work-a-holic, arrogant Dr. is made. When he finds he's responsible for the demise of the human race, what he really is upset about is that they might be able to blame him and that he might be crazy since he sees Six and nobody else does. With Gaius it's all me, me, me.
And won't it be interesting to see what happens with Sharon and Helo, I love sub-plots.
This is my favorite sci-fi series ever and what I think they have hands-down over the top, is character development and understanding of human nature. This series is science-fiction at it's absolute best.
And thanks for being cool about seeing the character's actions differently :)
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Date: 2005-03-12 05:55 pm (UTC)In an earlier episode, Starbuck had crashed and Adama risked the safety of the fleet to hunt for her. Lee didn't have a problem but on some level he questioned his father's devotion to him and asked what he would do if it were him and Adama said "You're my son I would Never give up looking for you." Adama lost another son that Starbuck had trained and he wasn't quite up to snuff as a pilot but was engaged to Starbuck who passed him in flight training. The other son supposedly died in a flight accident. I think Adama would spill out some of those feelings about his other son toward Starbuck.
He possibly identifies with Starbuck because he too protected that other son's weakness like Starbuck and they share the love and guilt for that.
In the very first episode I believe, you see Baltar in bed with another woman and Six walks in and of course has an in depth conversation with him, lol. But the impression of a dangerous womanizer, work-a-holic, arrogant Dr. is made. When he finds he's responsible for the demise of the human race, what he really is upset about is that they might be able to blame him and that he might be crazy since he sees Six and nobody else does. With Gaius it's all me, me, me.
And won't it be interesting to see what happens with Sharon and Helo, I love sub-plots.
This is my favorite sci-fi series ever and what I think they have hands-down over the top, is character development and understanding of human nature. This series is science-fiction at it's absolute best.
And thanks for being cool about seeing the character's actions differently :)