let's talk about hotdog

[krickets]

Let me pose a question to the BSG inclined on my flist. (And there are a lot of you.)


Okay. So! Hotdog.

I recall Gaeta (or someone in CIC after the takeover) mentioning that Hot Dog (and someone else who I can't remember) were flying CAP and we heard the orders regarding Roslin & Baltar's raptor.

Now, is Hotdog in on the mutiny?

Cause man, they've just turned all of their supporting characters (practically) into mutineers if he is too.

I'd like to believe that because Gaeta is the only link to communication at this point, that maybe the pilots flying CAP are unaware of what's happening on the ship and are just being fed whatever information Gaeta's allowed them to get?

Otherwise, why would they have to ask who was on CAP? They'd know, cause it'd be one of "them," right?

*shrugs*

I haven't re-watched the episode so I can't remember exactly how that scene played out and if we actually heard them giving orders to the pilots or just heard Gaeta giving the info to someone in CIC to relay those orders. Because why would they destroy one of their own raptors with no reason? (They wouldn't, would they? Aha! I've discovered a flaw in the master plan!)

I mean, they already got Racetrack! They can't have Hotdog too! Darnit!

Why would he bother apologizing to Galen last week about Cally if he's a cylon-hating mutineer? Amiright?

Comments

[woolly-socks.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, interesting.

Um. Supposedly Hotdog would follow orders, even if it meant destroying a raptor. He might check a couple of times that those really were his orders, but technically he should just do it, without asking questions.

I don't think he's in on it. I'm not sure why. Partly because like you say, he apologised to Tyrol.

But then again, I think the cylons on the fleet are no longer a black and white issue, for most people. Even, perhaps, the mutineers. They're angry and frustrated and lost, but it's still a big deal to suddenly hate a whole bunch of people you've been working side by side with for years.

Please take all this with a pinch of salt. I have the beginnings of a migraine. I may have no idea what I'm talking about.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

If he knew who was on the raptor he might have second thoughts about doing it, I would hope. But if they fed him some story then I agree, he'd follow orders after some clarification.

Anyway, no this all makes very much sense to me. Especially regarding Athena. I mean Chief and Tigh and Sam too, but mostly her. I'm so mad about that whole thing, lol.