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4 writing credits and they come up with frak? [spoilers]

posted 9 years ago by skat1140
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So, the whole trip was wasted... She was a traitor... Just what a stupid plot arc.

Then: a double twist. They _wanted_ her to upload her accurate (but dated) data. Huh? 200+ people died to get her to where she to her destination. It doesn't make sense that this loss of life was reasonable cost to just give the cylons coordinates of the locations of where the ships used to be. (Plus, informing the cylons of this sizeable fleet in their backyard still seems to be quite a boon to the cylons, if they know no prior knowledge of them.)

Just too stupid. Probably again a situation of "too many writers." It's like the Star Trek movies: the plot of almost any ST TV episode is better than almost any ST movie. (Except for Wrath of Khan and, perhaps, Search for Spock.) They couldn't have gotten Ron Moore to whip up a plot for them?

[–] sweawm 9 years ago

In the end it was explained as both sides trying to out-gambit each other. The Cylon's just didn't get out-dated Intel, they got Intel deliberately designed to lure their fleet away from defending their territory and attacking the hidden Colonial fleet, while the Colonial fleet just jumped behind enemy lines and wiped out the Cylon's territories.

It was a calculated gambit, but yea, the whole execution of it was just stupid. If the Cylon's knew their agent was incoming, why did they have to make it so damn hard for the traitor to deliver it?

[–] sfcwo2 8 years ago

During WW2 the Germans attacked a small fleet conducting pre-D day landing exercises off the English coast. The Allied command chose to not rush aid to recover those still in the water. The fear was the Germans may determine just how important this exercise was. Several hundred soldiers and sailors drowned as a result. Sacrificing lives is par for the course.