Adama treating her as a daughter is a reference to the original series. Athena was the name of Adama's daughter in TOS (she was also Galactica's tactical officer); Adama has no daughter in the new BSG. It's probably not meant to be anything other than a little nod to the origins of the series, just like casting Richard Hatch as Zareck.

Adama also treated Boomer like a daughter- at least until she shot him. It's possible that Adama feels Athena represents "their" Sharon (i.e. Boomer before she found out she was a cylon).

I think you've pretty much called it there, Nukeit; Roslin has warned Adama previously that his feelings with regard to Sharon/Athena were confused and potentially dangerous, despite everything that she's done to help the Colonials.

However since her (re?)commission as an officer in the Fleet and the bravery and loyalty she showed on the mission to New Caprica, she's pretty much been accepted by the crew (even by Col Tigh) and with the rescue of Hera from the Cylon Basestar, the only real hold the Cylons had over her is now negated; unless she has some deep seated programming that we haven't learnt about yet, but that would be a bit lame on the part of the writers. I suppose that she could be replaced by another Number 8 copy as part of a cunning plan, but then Hera would know that it wasn't her mother, even if no-one else did.

oooh only a couple of hours to go before I can watch Ep 14, nobody tell me what happens!

Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/12/2007 11:29:39 AM

Bump. One of us gets to fill in for taw every week.

Well, im not sure if i should...i've seen into the future, up to episode 17 of season 3, anyone want in?

I'll write one of those obliviatory speeches he used to write.

Hi,as I started watching season 3 it started out well but now, weeks later I find myself watching a space soap no action...boring. Hopefully season 4 will be better.

well, the way i see it, we've spent most of the first two seasons watching them get shot at, and various other dramas, so the writers are now dealing with the mess created during the first two seasons.

so this is where the BSG thread went hiding!

I just read that Season 4 will be the final season. I can see why RDM would want to do that, since most other sf shows do tend to go on well past their sell-by dates (except DS9 which had at least another season in it) and now we've seen Earth we can be pretty sure the Fleet is going to get there. Nothing till next year though.

But we do have the feature length production to look forward to later this year, a two hour special about the Pegasus and Admiral Cain (or so I'm told)

I must be suffering from BSG withdrawal because even Heroes doesn't cut it as a weekly replacement, and I've been reduced to watching Andromeda DVDs (yeah, I'm that desperate) I even started watching an episode of Stargate the other day, but thankfully gave up after 20 mins (since when did Stargate stop being a Trek rip-off and become a Farscape rip-off?)

That would have been around about the time that Ben Browder and Claudia Black became regular cast members, Taw...

I don't 'arf get confused.

Odo and Quark show up in SG1. Coinhead and Daniel Jackson show up in Andromeda. Rommie appears in later Stargate, as well as Creighton and Aeryn. General Hammond appears in Andromeda. Col Tigh, Dee, Chief Tyrol and Boomer have all been in Andromeda. Q has been in Andromeda and Stargate. The Borg Queen turns up in almost every other show. There's a hobbit in Lost. Sam and Al from Quantum Leap managed to jump onto that Enterprise show.

How am I meant to keep track of who's who? it was bad enough when Dr Who became Worzel Gummidge and Catweazel became a wrestler.

I stopped watching BSG after the 2nd season. It just kept dragging on with pointless crap after that season. Wish writers would make a good story and not one that drags on until it sucks, but that's the world we live in now.

well if you'd carried on watching it, you'd have seen the occupation of New Caprica, and it's eventual liberation, which was absolutely gripping, and the awesome appearance of Galactica jumping into the atmosphere, falling down like a burning multi-million ton brick, the destruction of Pegasus, Col Tigh having to kill his wife, the discovery of the Temple of 5, Number 3 going ga-ga and having her entire model series boxed, the trial of Balthar, the identities of the unamed Cylon models, Starbuck's "death" and the discovery of the way to Earth (and confirmation that it was there.)

There were a couple of duff episodes in S3, but it was generally far superior to S2 - it didn't take the Colonials half a series to get off New Caprica like it did for them to get off Kobol. You took your leave at just the wrong time, and missed lots of excellent story.

Maybe the new season will bring me from the shadows...

I saw all that, I guess I stopped around that time then. After that the show went down hill for me. Infact I haven't seen the show on sci-fi for awhile, I think they show it late night on fridays.