[Bobboau]

OMG!! the bit with Geata in front of the death squad, and there just about to kill him and Kara starts mocking him with what he said and the cheife is like actualy...... he did do that and we owe him our asses, and there all like "......................oh.............. well then, ehy um your free to, eh, go"

and of course
"oh... no......I'm dreaming aren't I?"

[ZylonBane]

The entire situation with Gaeta was idiotic. Dramatically, it hinges entirely on Gaeta inexplicably having no desire to brag that he was The Resisty's inside man. Any rational human in his situation would be telling everyone he met what he'd been doing on New Caprica.

[Unknown Target]

Gee guys, thanks for labeling your spoilers. Now I won't ever know what happens at the climax of the episode before I see it, hm?

In case you didn't know, that was sarcasm. I got about halfway through the post before realizing it was this week's spoiler, and by then it was too late.

[WMCoolmon]

Spoilers

I think it makes sense. Gaeta had NFC who he was passing the information on to, as far as I understand it. So he gets on Galactica, and all that inside information is worthless. He doesn't know anything about the Resistance, because he's been providing information for all that time - sending information back would be a massive security risk. Anything he could say would most likely be disregarded as him simply trying to ingratiate himself with the Colonials, and turning coats once again. Again, the only person who could validate his information 100% was the chief - and Gaeta didn't actually know that he was providing info to the chief.

I haven't seen Exodus Pt2, so this may be inaccurate, but I think that's the whole point of why Gaeta didn't try to start bragging about himself being the informant...that, and it's just not his personality. He's also been used to masking his true allegiance for some four months, and spending plenty of time with Baltar...given that Baltar's entire claim to fame seems to be his ability to put on airs, I'm not surprised that Gaeta would try to differentiate himself from Baltar (unconsciously) by being his exact oppossite.

[ZylonBane]

Gee guys, thanks for labeling your spoilers. Now I won't ever know what happens at the climax of the episode before I see it, hm?

You haven't actually been spoiled anything that wasn't already given away by the "next episode" teasers.

It's a very bland, predictable, by-the-numbers episode. They even had time for a couple of Starbuck's bipolar ****fits.

[Sandwich]

Gee guys, thanks for labeling your spoilers. Now I won't ever know what happens at the climax of the episode before I see it, hm?

In case you didn't know, that was sarcasm. I got about halfway through the post before realizing it was this week's spoiler, and by then it was too late.

You know, you might have expected to encounter spoilery stuff in this thread, vague though the title may seem...

[NGTM-1R]

What ****ing episode were you watching?

What the hell were you watching? Galactia's birds were launched in her little "the sky is falling" stunt and remained in-atmosphere to protect the civilians as they lifted off, Pegasus didn't bring any. The Raiders all headed to where the Vipers were, since none were seen in any spaceside external shots. No Vipers or Raiders were engaged spaceside. The Raptors and their escorts did a runner and played no part.

[Unknown Target]

Gee guys, thanks for labeling your spoilers. Now I won't ever know what happens at the climax of the episode before I see it, hm?

In case you didn't know, that was sarcasm. I got about halfway through the post before realizing it was this week's spoiler, and by then it was too late.

You know, you might have expected to encounter spoilery stuff in this thread, vague though the title may seem...

But there's also a lot of dicussion in this thread that isn't spoiler material So a SPOILER warning at the top of a post would be nice

[ZylonBane]

The Raiders all headed to where the Vipers were, since none were seen in any spaceside external shots.

Reality begs to differ.

[karajorma]

Exactly. Not only would you have to be blind not to have seen the raiders you'd have to be deaf not to hear them too so I've got no idea where you've got this idea there were no raiders involved.


Given that you've made such a fantastically large cock-up over this and that the rest of your argument doesn't hold any more water so I'm going to give you a chance to reconsider instead of poking holes in what appears to be an argument based on vague recollections of the episode.

[Ashrak]

raiders werent there before the pegasus arived and the basestars pulled back, regrouped and attacked again in full force, so pegasus nor galctica stood a chance anymore

[karajorma]

Wrong again!

Seriously guys. Try watching the episode before commenting on it.  

[Ashrak]

interesting..... that means they both shoulda been pwnt, weird

[Iron Wolf]

We must all be nerds or fanboys. Only nerds or fanboys take up a page with back-and forth arguement over the presence of radiers during a battle... 

[karajorma]

interesting..... that means they both shoulda been pwnt, weird

The Cylons concentrated their fire on Pegasus because it was a bigger danger to their baseships. Had they split their forces they risked losing both battlestars and giving the Pegasus time to kill more of their baseships.

Remember that the Cylons had no way of knowing that the Pegasus had no fighters. In fact they probably thought that the appearance of the Pegasus was part of the plan and were trying to kill it as quickly as possible before it could get all its birds in the air. The raiders were probably redeployed to kill Pegasus' fighters when they did launch.

[Janos]

interesting..... that means they both shoulda been pwnt, weird

Despite what we want to believe, the strenght of Raiders seems to change a lot between different episodes. In Mini they carried nukes which caused severe damage to Galactica's out hull. In Season 1 they were usually gun-armed and got killed by hundreds. Now they just fly around.

There is no solid canon line.

[WMCoolmon]

It would've been a pretty short series if the Raiders were all as deadly as they were in the miniseries.

If, for instancce, the Cylons had FTL'd a Heavy Raider with a nuke into Galactica's hangar bays, that probably would've been the end of her.

I might draw a parallel to Star Wars' stormtroopers, but the end reason is all the same...it just isn't good TV if the bad guys can kill all the good guys in the first two episodes (and do so).

[karajorma]

Despite what we want to believe, the strenght of Raiders seems to change a lot between different episodes. In Mini they carried nukes which caused severe damage to Galactica's out hull.

In the mini they were involved in an attack they had been planning for the last 40 years. It's quite probably they used a rather large portion of their supply of nukes in that attack.

[IceFire]

interesting..... that means they both shoulda been pwnt, weird

Despite what we want to believe, the strenght of Raiders seems to change a lot between different episodes. In Mini they carried nukes which caused severe damage to Galactica's out hull. In Season 1 they were usually gun-armed and got killed by hundreds. Now they just fly around.

There is no solid canon line.

Likely its a matter of resources.  You dont use nukes unless you really need to and its not something you are going to carry around on a regular basis.

Oh, and after the preview trailer for the next episode, I have a sneaking suspicion that Baltar may be number 1

[Janos]

Despite what we want to believe, the strenght of Raiders seems to change a lot between different episodes. In Mini they carried nukes which caused severe damage to Galactica's out hull.

In the mini they were involved in an attack they had been planning for the last 40 years. It's quite probably they used a rather large portion of their supply of nukes in that attack.

Good point. But nukes are not very difficult to build, at least for someone who controls 12 radiated demolished colonies. Maybe it's just the "Good TV" again or something. No idea.