Battlestar Galactica: Razorette 7 (the final one)
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- November
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Here’s the seventh and final Razorette, which aired Friday during Flash Gordon.
Wow.
First off, the irony of Cylon PR man showing up while Adama’s looking at one of the old toasters and they’re talking about the war being long over. OK, I get it.
But far more important  to me, anyhow  is the fact that this means Bill Adama had ONE combat mission. ONE. How did he become the hotshot he was given this. This has been the thing that’s bothered me most about these flashbacks. It makes me question Adama, he whom I’d never questioned before.
He’d frakkin’ better not be a Cylon, that’s all I have to say.
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That surprised me as well. But then again, perhaps he gained his rep after the cylon war. Based on offhand references to “uprisings” he could’ve participated in those. Or he was just a good pilot. Starbuck had a rep as an ace pilot before the cylon attack, after all.
Or he could just be one of those military types who rose through the ranks in peacetime.
My interpretation, based on the whole series and all the flashbacks, was that he was a hotshot pilot in the first war…when the war ended he lost his way…he ended up finding a way back into the fleet (taking Tigh with him)...and the fact that he was chosen to command the severely out-dated Galactica, right up to its de-commissioning day, was a sign of how fleet command truly felt about him. Hence the extra impact of seeing how he stands up and leads humanity (along with a teacher-become-President) after the cylon holocaust…
That’s an interesting observation, ProgGrrl, but I do have one issue with it: the flashbacks were of the first war. And of Adama’s first-ever mission. So his first-ever mission was in the last battle of the war. So how was he a hotshot pilot in the first war, you know? That’s the thing that’s weird about it.