One could presume that Roslin told Cottle she would put the baby out an airlock if he didn't go along, and he believed her. And went along, reasoning that while the parents would be miserable if they thought their child was dead, they'd be even more miserable if she actually was. Given that neither Helo nor Athena has killed him since Rapture, presumably he managed to convince them of that offscreen. Of course, all this stuff happening off screen is one of my pet peeves about Galactica as a show.
I mean, I get that they're just supporting characters, but if the show has enough time to spend an entire fucking episode in Season 3.5 on the Starbuck's Creek Quadrangle of Doom, they have enough time to put in a scene with Cottle either explaining himself or apologising to the patients he screwed over. But then, this is the show that filmed that fabulous Roslin/Six scene in the Starbuck's Creek episode (the scene that brilliantly presaged Crossroads, would've been brilliant anyway, and was hit out of the park by McDonnell and Helfer). Damnit, where was I? Oh yeah, if the show would actually film that scene and then cut it in favour of yet more Starbuck's Creek blithering, they're idiots, and I shouldn't expect them to do right by their supporting characters when they can't even do right by their headliners.
Sorry. I'm still kinda bitter about Season 3, as you might've gathered.
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Date: 2009-02-14 09:20 pm (UTC)I mean, I get that they're just supporting characters, but if the show has enough time to spend an entire fucking episode in Season 3.5 on the Starbuck's Creek Quadrangle of Doom, they have enough time to put in a scene with Cottle either explaining himself or apologising to the patients he screwed over. But then, this is the show that filmed that fabulous Roslin/Six scene in the Starbuck's Creek episode (the scene that brilliantly presaged Crossroads, would've been brilliant anyway, and was hit out of the park by McDonnell and Helfer). Damnit, where was I? Oh yeah, if the show would actually film that scene and then cut it in favour of yet more Starbuck's Creek blithering, they're idiots, and I shouldn't expect them to do right by their supporting characters when they can't even do right by their headliners.
Sorry. I'm still kinda bitter about Season 3, as you might've gathered.