Very.
With explosive rounds, which were required. And he needed a head-shot. It’s clear the Centurions were updated fairly early in the series, yet somehow these upgrades just vanished. At any rate, only headshots work with small arms. Other hits just ricochet off, maybe detach an limb or whatever. Centurions are pretty fast. The idea that a whole line of them could be taken out by a pair of snipers in a couple of seconds is simply ludicrous. There’s no way around it.
No. Before they even landed a number of characters commented on how harsh the climate was on New Caprica, so harsh that only the promise of getting the frak out of a spaceship after the better part of a year made it seem attractive. Plus the planet has a nebula around it which completely obscures all DRADIS signatures, making it an ideal hiding place from Cylon pursuit. In fact, if it weren’t for this latter attribute, the planet probably wouldn’t have been considered as anything more than a rest-stop. Add to this the flight-level shots of the town “One year later…” showing bleak terrain as far as the horizon. There’s no way around it: The planet is supposed to be barely-habitable, and everything about the shantytown and its environs is consistent with that. The canyon scene shitcans that entire premise, which was an incredibly poor move on the part of the writers and directors.
Either way it’s absurd. What, there’s an entire tent full of oracular paraphernalia that only one copy of 3 sees? So she’s standing there in an empty space talking to herself, à la Baltar and his imaginary 6? Or she’s dreaming it all? If that’s the case, the writers blow harder than we thought.
Everybody’s wrong on this. Cavill can euthanize himself because he’ll be resurrected in less than a day. The body dies, but the mind lives on. There have been Cylon “suicides” since the beginning, from Raiders to a copy of Doral with an explosive belt. They don’t “die” in any conventional sense, so it’s not sinful. Now, if there’s no Resurrection Ship nearby, or, in the case of humans, you can’t resurrect, that’s an entirely different story. Gina’s self-immolation with the nuke Baltar gave her would undoubtedly be sinful (unless the signal the radiation provided redeemed that act somehow).
Why? I don’t buy that at all. She states clearly that she’s just going to wound 3. I think it’s meant to be some sort of gesture, but it falls pretty goddamn flat conceptually when A) a kneecapped Cylon can surely crawl, and B) 3 is in the frakking data stream. Sharon wouldn’t be idiot enough to think a kneecapping would accomplish anything if the writers weren’t idiot enough to come up with that idea, because it’s clear the Cylons would be able to communicate an emergency through their link with whatever central computer manages the facility, with a voice command easily (just as Sharon opened the appropriate drawer), or perhaps just by thinking about it. What, 3 suddenly appearing was a coincidence? She knew an 8 was opening the drawer the moment she did it because they’re connected. Sharon would have had to count on other Cylons believing her intrusion was the activity of an allied 8, not the Caprica-Sharon turncoat. The moment she’s discovered, that cover is blown completely.
