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1) Has Captain Adama been Rikerized?

I'm not sure what you mean by that.

2) Why would Admiral Adama listen to the Pres-elect after the outgoing Pres raise the (unproven) charge that he was with Cyclons at Caprica? Civilian rule / military rule depends on how active the battlefield is. Here a Cylon suspect wants to put all of humanity's eggs in one basket and he defers? They's have been better off with the first Admiral.

Adama is foresquare against the concept of Martial Law. Remember how well it worked when Tighe was in charge? Remember, Adama insisted that Roslyn give up the presidency when it became apparant that she tried to steal the election. He has principals, and will live with them, even at great cost. Remember his speech during the decommisioning ceremony during the original mini-series: Something along the lines of "Do we deserve to survive?"

3) Why was there still people who wanted to go to only one planet when the news was that the Cylons had vacated the original colonies they called home?

Would you really want to go back to your home, on the word of the enemy saying "opps! my bad!" Remember, the Cylons showed that they had the ability to exterminate the human race, and nearly did it once. Would you really want to go back?

Why did the Cylons come back after detecting a nuclear detonation when that was set off by model 6 who would have downloaded again and told them she did it?

She couldn't have downloaded: Remember that at that point, the cylon "resurection ship" had been destroyed.

Mark

Thanks - there are points forgotten between the long lull. Re: "Rikerized", I meant he's gained some weight (or more probably made to look that way), like Riker from one season to another in the Next Generation.

Re: why No 6 didn't download after nuking Cloud 9, I knew that was the point about the resurrection ship but apparently the Cylons could download on New Caprica. Guess that's a distance thing made anew when they came back?

I appreciate Adm Adama's principles, but if he had reason to suspect that the Pres-elect was a tool and the move to New Caprica foolhardy, he should have maintained defence of his ships. I didn't buy that people would just give up space entirely like that. If you distrust Cyclons enough to avoid the other colonies why think that the new world would be different?