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a) The “bitchy” Ellen character was someone who didn’t know who she was, an has only known humping and jugging down booze. Once downloaded, she became a very kind, serene, mature “creator” of a race. Her dialogue with Cavil in the last episode revolved around pettiness of emotions like anger and envy. After all, she has just re-gained the knowledge of her being rather “supreme”. Even in the face of getting her head cut open for some ‘Cavil-persuasion” she remained calm, serene, stoic.
Fast forward to last night’s episode, and they brought back “bitchy twit”. (sorry). Doesn’t make sense that the character would regress into this “petty” behavior.
b) Galen Tyrol has just regained his rank and got “his baby” back. Based on the previous development of the character, it was rather unbelievable that he would decide to abandon ship and start a “new life” on the base star. He knows about the physical state of the ship of course you may say, but it was unbelievable that “Chief Tyrol” would just off the bat say “oh okay lets leave”, without any sign of inner conflict.
Bad writing, IMHO.
c) William Adama’s emerging alcoholism doesn’t really play to the character. He had little issues with using the technology to upgrade the drives of the entire fleet, yet a little “organic” glue drives him to character-breaking inner despair.
Having been in the military myself, I can assure you that superior technology gained from the enemy is always very popular, and not perceived as “dilution of one’s self”. The character has very well dealt with his XO being outed as “the enemy”, how come he’s hit so hard now?
There you have it, I’m outed as a geek now :)