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   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Dano"  wrote in message   
   news:hog6dp$n5j$1@news.eternal-september.org...   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   And also, unlikeable characters can be fun.  Ted Danson's "Becker" character   
   is reasonably fun.   
      
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