I totally agree about Tyrol! Last week Adama reinstated him as Chief and that clearly meant a lot to him. I think Jane Espenson (whose episodes I find weak) just wanted Ellen to be the deciding vote so she shoe-horned Tyrol into voting to leave.
I think Jane Espenson (whose episodes I find weak) just wanted Ellen to be the deciding vote so she shoe-horned Tyrol into voting to leave.
Yeah, that I agree with. And I understand that out of the final five only Tori would be the one saying, "Let's go" but you needed the drama of Ellen having the final say. So even if they had a thirty second scene of Tyrol thinking that once he completed the Galactica repairs he could be free to go, or that Adama pissed him off with Boomer's arrest, or even Tori talking to him giving him the reasons to be on her side, that I could understand. But for him to go, "Yeah, I vote to go" so spontaneously is not the Chief I know.
And that's what bugs me about the writers that are more concerned with the story they want to tell, as opposed to the characters they are choosing to tell it. They don't care if it makes characters suddenly OOC, as they have a very important plot point to hammer in.
Also to add to this, I just skimmed through Escape Velocity as that was a Jane Espenson ep that I couldn't specifically remember. That was right after Callie died, and she turned Tyrol into a grief stricken incompetent drunk who begged Adama to thrown him off the ship because he was done. In that light, his decision to just leave the fleet makes a little more sense. However, she seemed to miss the eleven eps or so in between where the Chief turned his life around and had rededicated himself to the Galactica.
Either she doesn't like Galen Tyrol, or she has a very different interpretation of his character than we do.
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Yeah, that I agree with. And I understand that out of the final five only Tori would be the one saying, "Let's go" but you needed the drama of Ellen having the final say. So even if they had a thirty second scene of Tyrol thinking that once he completed the Galactica repairs he could be free to go, or that Adama pissed him off with Boomer's arrest, or even Tori talking to him giving him the reasons to be on her side, that I could understand. But for him to go, "Yeah, I vote to go" so spontaneously is not the Chief I know.
And that's what bugs me about the writers that are more concerned with the story they want to tell, as opposed to the characters they are choosing to tell it. They don't care if it makes characters suddenly OOC, as they have a very important plot point to hammer in.
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Either she doesn't like Galen Tyrol, or she has a very different interpretation of his character than we do.
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