The Roslin/Adama civil/military thing's been fascinating all the way through the series. This latest development is no exception.
She is indeed the President but it's been made clear throughout that Adama is in charge when it comes to military issues and there's always a process for removing an unfit head of state, especially in emergency situations.
OK, we as viewers know, because it's in keeping with the tone of the series that Roslin will be right about the Arrow of Apollo but from Adama's perspective, the President, who's been making all sorts of increasingly weird visionary pronouncements as a side-effect of alternative medical substances, induces one of his officers to disobey orders behind his back, take with her an irreplaceable military asset and put in jeopardy a major military operation, you can see why Adama might conclude the President is now unfit and has to be removed.
It is also, as you point out, in keeping with Adama's nature - note the way he had the Master At Arms' duly constituted Cylon enquiry shut down even though she was still within her frame of reference, but I figure the consitutional situation may not be as clear cut as Adama simply staging a military coup.
Of course, that is one of the things I love about Galactica - issues are not conveniently black and white (i.e. heroic soldier vs conniving politician or evil militarist vs freedom-loving civilian). Instead, we have Billy and Dualla's exchange: "Tell me he's not going to do this" vs "Tell me she's not going to make him"
I know I keep saying this but if you like Galactica, you reallys should try Babylon 5. Its politics has the same grey, murky feel.
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She is indeed the President but it's been made clear throughout that Adama is in charge when it comes to military issues and there's always a process for removing an unfit head of state, especially in emergency situations.
OK, we as viewers know, because it's in keeping with the tone of the series that Roslin will be right about the Arrow of Apollo but from Adama's perspective, the President, who's been making all sorts of increasingly weird visionary pronouncements as a side-effect of alternative medical substances, induces one of his officers to disobey orders behind his back, take with her an irreplaceable military asset and put in jeopardy a major military operation, you can see why Adama might conclude the President is now unfit and has to be removed.
It is also, as you point out, in keeping with Adama's nature - note the way he had the Master At Arms' duly constituted Cylon enquiry shut down even though she was still within her frame of reference, but I figure the consitutional situation may not be as clear cut as Adama simply staging a military coup.
Of course, that is one of the things I love about Galactica - issues are not conveniently black and white (i.e. heroic soldier vs conniving politician or evil militarist vs freedom-loving civilian). Instead, we have Billy and Dualla's exchange: "Tell me he's not going to do this" vs "Tell me she's not going to make him"
I know I keep saying this but if you like Galactica, you reallys should try Babylon 5. Its politics has the same grey, murky feel.