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   From: janeanddano@yahoo.com   
      
   clouddreamer wrote:   
   > Dano wrote:   
   >> trag wrote:   
   >>> On Mar 25, 8:17 am, tinydancer  wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:55:20 -0400, "Obveeus"    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> "Ken from Chicago"  wrote:   
   >>>>>> Ironically's Adama's story felt like a watered down retread of   
   >>>>>> Tamara's where she starts out in New Cap City wimpy but learns to   
   >>>>>> kick butt--only it took him too forever to get to that point   
   >>>>>> while Tamara realized it much sooner.   
   >>>>> Tamara's transition was the one that I found unbelievable.  She   
   >>>>> went from timid-mouse to grandma Adama in a matter of moments.   
   >>>> Discovering that you can't be killed tends to make you brave. It's   
   >>>> not like she's was a timid mouse when she first appeared anyway,   
   >>>> she was merely disoriented and understandably confused.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>> And as Lacy said, why again won't Zoe reveal herself? What would   
   >>>>>> be so horrible about that? So he tries to exploit her to make   
   >>>>>> more robots?   
   >>>>> Security would likely go up around the Cylon robot if he felt that   
   >>>>> it could act on its own.   
   >>>> Her plan to smuggle herself to Gemenon would immediately go poof.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I found this episode tedious and annoying.   
   >>> I find Zoe's plan to smuggle herself to Gemenon tedious and   
   >>> annoying.   What exactly is the point of that?  She sincerely   
   >>> *wants* to go live with the religious zealots and terrorists who   
   >>> killed her? If so, she is not the least bit a sympathetic character.   
   >>   
   >> I believe you are forgetting that this is NOT the real Zoe.  She is a   
   >> representation.  Not human.  She is only guessing at what the real   
   >> Zoe would want.  She doesn't know all of the story.  I believe she   
   >> is not aware that the human she was based (?) on (I'm not sure how   
   >> to phrase this) had no idea she was with her boyfriend on a suicide   
   >> mission.  The real Zoe was as surprised as anyone.  She just knows   
   >> Zoe wanted to get to Gemenon.   
   >   
   > And likely adopted a lot of the teenage hate Zoe had for her parents   
   > without knowing it was a phase as such.   
   >   
   >  ..   
      
   Yep.  That too.  It's one of the aspects that I find intriguing about the   
   show.   
      
   A lot of folks complain about "unlikable" characters.  Probably because most   
   humans are complicated and have an unlikable side.  We are all of us flawed,   
   yet most TV programs show only the good or bad in people.  Simpler that way.   
      
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