It's not easy being Gaeta

This is a Battlestar Galactica post….so stop reading now if you don’t want to read about BSG.

Ok, got rid of the deadweight. This week’s episode was better than previous weeks. Perhaps it’s because they took a break from finger painting and actually managed to push the plot along. Perhaps it was due to an extra helping of hotbot. Who knows. Whatever the case, I can’t help feeling sorry for poor old Felix Gaeta.

If nothing else, the moral of BSG is nice guys finish last. Felix just tries to pitch in and help everyone as best he cans. He follows rules, and as such the show mercilessly punishes him. Take this week for instance, Felix is about to follow an order to jump….and it gets him shot in the leg. I can only image what it must have been like when Felix woke up.

Felix: Ow, my leg hurts, why did he have to shoot me in the leg? We don’t even shoot our cylon prisoners in the legs…we just rough them up a bit.

Helo: Yeah that really sucks.

Felix: Well at least Anders is locked up in the brig where he can’t hurt anyone else.

Helo: Ahh….not exactly..

Felix: Oh dear, you guys didn’t jettison him did you, that might have been a bit rash.

Helo: Oh no, we just let him go.

Felix: You did what?

Helo: We gave him and Starbuck a raptor and let them go about their crazies.

Felix: You’ve got be kidding…. Well I’m afraid that if we don’t get to a doctor I might lose my leg.

Helo: Quit complaining.

Felix: Couldn’t we just jump back for a moment and drop me off at a doctor…. You’re not expecting them back for hours…No? How about this. You put me in a raptor and we jump back early so I get to a doctor and we can tell them what’s going on...

Helo: Felix, please….it’s not like we dole out raptors all willy nilly. Unless you got some crazy mission that you can backup with the prerequisite finger paintings your ass isn’t going anywhere.

Felix: Oh bother…