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Continuity
On 11 October, the Patriot Resource reported:
Adama and Caroline split after he received his first command. Lee indicates that she turned on him and Zak. Adama seems surprised, but Lee points out that Caroline was already pregnant with him when she and Adama got married. [This implies that they may not have married out of love and that she might blame Lee's conception for the unhappy marriage.]
If this report is correct, it contradicts what we have learned about William Adama's early years in the episodes "Act of Contrition" and "Scattered". To wit:
- Two women have been named as Adama's wife - Caroline Adama, in "Act of Contrition", identified as Lee and Zak's mother, and Anne Adama, in "Scattered", referred to as William's "new wife" in a flashback scene set 20 years prior to the series (and presuming Lee Adama is meant to be in his late 20s/early 30s, well after his birth).
- It is stated in "Scattered" that Adama still aspires to command of his own battlestar - he only achieved it during his second stint in the Colonial Fleet, with the help of Anne's father.
- This report, however, seems to indicate that William and Caroline were still together when Adama received his first command, and makes no mention of Anne.
- In a photograph featured prominently in several episodes, a William Adama much younger than the one seen in "Scattered" is featured with Lee and Zak, who are already preteens. This means that the "new wife" referred to in "Scattered" cannot be their mother under a different name.
Possible solutions:
- "Scattered" only stated that Adama had not yet commanded a battlestar - it is possible that the command assignment which caused his rift with Caroline (before his furlough, and the events of "Scattered") was a smaller ship.
- In "The Passage", Adama refers to Zak's mother as Carol-Anne, suggesting that they could be one and the same. The more detailed timeline glimpsed in "Hero" allows for Adama to have met Lee's mother in time to still be a young fighter pilot by the time Lee was in late childhood.
- I'm pretty sure Adama called her Caroline (her name) and not Carol-Anne. --Meteor 25 January 2007.
--Peter Farago 17:51, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- Considering the information from Adama's bio that was provided to the Pressident when she first came aboard Galactica, it's likely that Adama's first command (as mentioned above) isn't that of a ship--but instead of a viper squadron. That might even explain the photo of Lee and Zak and their father infront of the Viper--taken when Adama received command of Primus Squadron? In the modern US Navy, Carrier commanders must have been naval aviators and commanded a squadron prior to receiving a carrier CO slot--the Colonials may not be that different, considering a Battlestar is esentially a giant carrier in space. --Whyte Wolf 14:46, 19 November 2006 (CST)
- Good point there, that is always a possibility. Actually, in the USN, only one of the two top commanders (CO or XO) on carriers and Amphibious Assault Ships like the Wasp needs to have been an aviator. It's rare but there have been surface warfare officers commanding carriers. --Talos 16:30, 19 November 2006 (CST)
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Can we change the pic to one of them from here? http://pics.livejournal.com/drewcypher/gallery/000a5yrp --lordmutt 12:02, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- Of course. --Peter Farago 16:35, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- I suggest the one with Adama and Wife. :-) Shane (T - C - E) 16:40, 18 January 2007 (CST)
- I also like that one. --Peter Farago 16:52, 18 January 2007 (CST)
Character Spoiler Hint
I'm going to mask this text to keep from spoiling out of courtesy, although talk pages are generally not required to have spoilers masked. (Be sure to mask out your responses to this if you use character names or you'll spoil the possible surprise.)
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| This link (click here) from the venerable promo shot web site (I'd like to know their source) shows Cally Tyrol and her husband in some incident where respirators are needed. A later shot shows Cally in what appears to be a hyperbaric chamber, with Tyrol holding his infant son by the chamber. Is Cally, sadly, fated to die in this episode? It would fit the family unit images of Adama and his first wife and the problems they had, and parallels what may befall the new father Tyrol. Remember to be courteous and try not to use the character's names in any replies unless you use {{spoiltext}} to mask them out. |
--Spencerian 15:18, 1 February 2007 (CST)