Felix Weekly Returns!

[millari]

So, as promised, I'm going to try out the Felix Weekly posts again, see what the response/interest is. Let's start out with a little game to get some meta going

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[millari]

Felix approached Lee with some choice words about the Triangle of Doom

[trovia]

Well, I think that could only have happened if Gaeta approached Lee in some PTSD-induced anger management fit. Which he might have. It doesn't quite seem like the Gaeta thing to do, but after the whole pen stabbing debacle, Cottle might have put him on enough mood stabilizers that there's no telling how he would have acted. (I still like rap541's idea that his Adama/Roslin giggle fit in that one deleted scene was antidepressant-induced, and that he remembered nothing about it later

[millari]

You know, I really like that idea that Felix might have been on mood stabilizers after pen-stabbing Baltar; it makes a lot of sense. I think he would have been on them for at least a while, although I could also see him forgoing them quickly, if he found them giving him side effects, especially ones that would interfere with his ability to be sharp for his job.

I also like your point that Dee keeps her business to herself. I am reminded of that scene in "Unfinished Business" where Felix is staring at Dee while she stares at Lee and Kara in the ring, and he knows exactly what is going on and he looks utterly pained about what to do about it, because she is so obviously not letting him in.

I too would like to read that scene.

[trovia]

I too think that Gaeta would probably want to go off the drugs very fast. On the one hand, they probably don't have many, and Cottle as a military doctor might not even have any that aren't meant for emergencies. On the other hand, I've always thought (after reading somebody's very convincing meta about it once, somewhere, ages ago) that the BSG 'verse must have a lot of prejudice against mental disorders. I mostly get this from the fact that people such as Kara never even thought to get any kind of help after New Caprica (or Lee after his near-death experience in S2), as well as the fact that Baltar, who is super educated and a scientist and should know better, was desperately busy hiding the fact that he might be having a mental disorder. (what with hallucinating the hot blonde woman) He went to Cottle to be checked for a brain tumor, I think? Or a chip, directly? But he never had him check for crazy, never mind that possibility clearly was on his mind. So I think they all have a prejudice, and Gaeta has enough concerns about

[millari]

Felix occasionally moved supplies (food, medicine, etc.) around during the Occupation to help people out on New Caprica.

[calanthe_b]

Definitely could have happened and probably did, whenever he could shuffle the paperwork around enough that no Cylons would spot it (or more likely, when no Cylons would spot anything that looked like more than just one more vaguely corrupt official doing a little favour for a friend on the sly).

The people he did it for wouldn't have known about it, though. Too dangerous.

[millari]

That makes an interesting question occur to me - whether or not the Cylons would have cracked down hard on something like that - minor, limited corruption on a personal level.

On the one hand, the Cylons are essentially fundamentalists and potentially kind of rigid. They might have had a zero tolerance policy for rule-breaking. On the other hand, you had Cavil(s) coercing Ellen Tigh into sleeping with them and Leoben keeping Kara a prisoner, and they were certainly giving anyone in Colonial One a lot more privileges than anyone else on New Caprica. So they might have had quite the tolerance for bending the rules, or at least an interest in pretending not to see when it kept things at status quo. So I could see how a Cylon might notice things going missing and opting not to do anything, because it didn't seem like a pattern.

[greenleaf3]

Also, it seems to me that letting the collaborators think they were making a difference was allowed since it would pacify them in the long run. This is really what Sweet Eight did with Felix - she manipulated a situation where she made him believe he was freeing prisoners. Since these were not high profile or dangerous prisoners (no Tighs, Starbucks, Zareks, etc.) it only makes sense that the purpose of this was not to use Felix to get their names (especially since they're already in custody) but for the effect it has on him: In other words, as long as he believes he's helping in this way he won't be making more serious trouble in other ways. They didn't realize he had his eggs in several baskets and was already passing information to the Resistance elsewhere. I guess what I'm saying is that I can see the cylons (most of them) tolerating a certain amount of low-level corner cutting if it kept up overall morale. Also, some of the nicer cylons like Boomer or Caprica might have genuinely liked to have people like Felix helping people

[millari]

Felix thought at any point on New Caprica that Caprica!Six was Shelly Godfrey.

[lls_mutant]

I think he might have wondered, but overall, I'm going to say it's not likely. It's a credit to Tricia that the Sixes were all so different- Shelly and Caprica just held themselves differently acted so differently, I would think that he probably very quickly reached the conclusion that they weren't the same.

But given that Shelly (as far as Felix knows) tried to expose Gaius, I would love to know Felix's thoughts on her. I'm also shaky on my Plan canon- it would have been really interesting to see her and Felix on New Caprica, if she was able to resurrect.

[millari]

It's so interesting to hear your thoughts on this

[greenleaf3]

Whether or not he knew it for sure, I'm sure he wondered.

[millari]

Felix had a non-military-related conversation with Ellen Tigh.

[daybreak777]

Hey, I wrote that fic!

At least I don't think this is a military conversation because there is kissing. :-)

I know, I'm shameless. But then so is Ellen Tigh. ;-)

[millari]

I went back and read that fic just now. (It was short.) So sad and nostalgic, it made me!

I could definitely see Ellen Tigh having approached Gaeta (and possibly Baltar, if she could get to him) before trying her luck with the Cylons. That just makes a lot of sense, because who would she trust more to keep their word - someone who worked with Tigh or their inhuman oppressors? So I could see a conversation happening, definitely.

[greenleaf3]

I believe there was talk of an unwritten scene when Tigh is in charge after Adama was shot where Ellen sort of takes over the CIC, and she was to be bugging Gaeta about supplies and generally annoying him. Whether or not this specifically happened, I could definitely see Ellen taking advantage of her position as the Colonel's wife to boss Felix around. There's also a chance they might have bumped into each other during the cylon occupation. I think a few of you fanfic writers have written that already.

[trovia]

Before New Caprica, Gaeta occasionally got drunk with Saul Tigh. :)

[kappamaki33]

"Occasionally," no. But once? Absolutely yes. I imagine him desperately trying to be "one of the guys" when he first started on the Galactica, which lead to him going drinking with Tigh and other CIC crew. It never happened again because he either felt like he embarrassed himself in front of his superiors, or (more likely) Tigh's level of drunkenness and behavior when drunk made him lose too much respect for him. He decided his opinion of Tigh would remain higher if he didn't see examples of Tigh when drunk again.

[millari]

Well, unfortunately, then, he would have seen examples of it anyway, in the CIC. But that would certainly explain the little derisive hand gesture we get between Dee and Felix during Tigh's brief reign as commander, when Dee mimics drinking from a bottle at Felix while she's on the phone with Tigh. You can tell that they'd both seen Tigh drunk a lot on the job by that point.

[greenleaf3]

And in their very first scene in the miniseries, the first we see of Tigh and Felix is Felix saluting Tigh, Tigh sort of saluting back but being kind of out of it with a drink in his hand, and Felix shaking his head behind his back. Says everything about their relationship in about two seconds. The only reservation I have about them getting drunk together even once or twice is that the only time we see Tigh get drunk socially with his subordinates, he's with the pilots. While there is some mixing, there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of social interaction between pilots and CIC crew. Yeah, come to think of it I don't see pre-series Felix getting drunk with Tigh. He cares too much about his reputation, and he sees enough of Tigh's drunkenness at work.