Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** While morally ambiguous enough to avoid being preachy, [[The War Onon Terror]] subtext is far from subtle.

{{quote| '''Cmdr. Adama:''' ''[calmly and with certainty]'' {{spoiler|If you were down there, we would never leave.}}<br />

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Baltar is an insufferable, irritating, self-proclaimed "genius", and is arguably one of the major villains for a couple of seasons, but still the ladies swoon over his macho stubble. In show as well given his successes. Though this is helped by him being amusing, oddly sympathetic despite his narcissism, hugely charismatic and genuinely a genius, if out of his depth in the circumstances he finds himself in. And mad.<br /><br />In the series finale, Baltar makes the leap from being [[Draco in Leather Pants]] to being a [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] by being Horatius at the Bridge in his defense against the Cylon borders. Thus, he finally did something that, as Apollo demanded, didn't even indirectly benefit Gaius Baltar. Aside from proving Apollo wrong, which has got to be satisfying on ''some'' level.

* [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him]]: Boomer seems to be a magnet for bridges.

* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: President Roslin's adorably naive aide Billy had [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|a bridge dropped on him]] because the actor who played him decided to leave the show to pursue a role on a more mainstream show. A year and a half later, said show never even made it past the pilot stage, and the character who replaced Billy becomes a Cylon central to the show's mythology... Go figure. She's also the only female Cylon of the "Watchtower Four", which means that she's the one who ends up bedding Baltar...what would have happened if Billy had still been around?

* [[Ho Yay]]: [[Battlestar Galactica (Franchise)/Ho Yay|Has its own page]]

** Admiral Cain is clearly straddling the moral event horizon from the moment she first appears onscreen, but she crosses it fully when she {{spoiler|orders Athena, who is pregnant at the time, to be ''raped'' in order to get information about the resurrection ships out of her.}}<br /><br />Chronologically speaking, she crosses it in flashback in ''Razor'' when she {{spoiler|executes her XO for insubordination when's merely trying to talk her out diving into a suicide mission. What's more, by this point we already know that she's ordered Gina raped as well--what's uncovered over the course of ''Razor'' is that Gina was the love of her life and she ordered her raped out of pure ''[[Woman Scorned|seething spite]]''}}.

** Being informed you and [[Cloning Blues|everyone like you]] will be [[Human Popsicle|boxed]] [[Never Say "Die"|indefinitely]].

** While filming ''[[The Movie|The Plan]]'' [[Directed Byby Cast Member|actor-turned-director]] Edward James Olmos decided to test the limits of the term "unrated DVD" by engineering an all nude scene in ''Galactica'''s unisex head and covertly trying to get a shot of an actor's penis. And it worked.

** &And Felix is a woobie for the entire series. He's very rudely disillusioned by his then-hero, Baltar, by the latter's actions on New Caprica. He's the fleet navigator yet never even gets an official military promotion, unless you count the time when {{spoiler|Zarek}} promotes him {{spoiler|during the mutiny}}, which may or may not have been official or legal. It's clear from his interview in D'Anna's documentary film that he dislikes his job and finds it very difficult to de-stress, and is something of an odd man out among his colleagues. In season 3, after {{spoiler|the fleet returns to Galatica, he is beaten and then almost executed by The Circle for being a collaborator, and is hated throughout the fleet until Chief clears his name}}. Outside of the webisodes he never had any romantic relationships or love interests. And in the webisodes, {{spoiler|his lover on New Caprica betrays him, making him think that she's getting prisoners released when in reality she's killing most of them}}. {{spoiler|The loss of his leg}} could have been prevented; plus, no one faces any consequences for what happened to Felix. After {{spoiler|he loses his leg}}, he doesn't even get many visitors while in sick bay. Later on, {{spoiler|Dualla, who had been his friend, commits suicide right after talking to him}}.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Woobie, Destroyer of the Fleet]]: The above discussion of {{spoiler|Gaeta's}} mutiny indicates that he probably qualifies. Though 'Destroyer of the Fleet' is more a metaphorical term in this instance...