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[lanalucy]

Rewatching the mini, again, to get some wording right.

Just noticed for the first time that the pilot on the Colonial Heavy tells his passengers to check out the starboard window (I think it was starboard, anyway) to see an old Mark II, which would be escorting them home. Except Lee was flying his Mark VII, wasn't he? He only flew the Mark II for the fly-by. Right?

It's not relevant to this story, but it's just weird that as many times as I've watched the mini, that particular discrepancy never caught my attention.

ETA: No, Lee says it, too. "This old junker I'm in was meant for show, not for combat." So he must've been flying the Mark II for the escort, then returning to G to retrieve his own Viper. Hmm. That doesn't seem efficient to me, but then, it was probably more a plot point than "what would the real military do?" lol

Comments

[singerdiva01-sk.livejournal.com]

I think the plot point was that Lee, unlike all the rest of the pilots who were in the newer and therefore more networked planes, wasn't hit when the Cylons "flipped the switch" and turned all the technology off. That was how he survived, saved Colonial One, and got back to Galactica.

And, no, not very efficient at all. I like to think that Tyrol sent him in it, with some side excuse, because Lee had been such an ass about flying the plane he and his crew had worked so hard to salvage in the first place. Random headcanon!

[liferscove2118.livejournal.com]

Going on what Lee says "This old junker I'm in was meant for show, not for combat." Doesn't that mean that Kara spent the entire series kicking his ass in a Mark II?

[altitudeandwine.livejournal.com]

The mini-series really doesn't offer any more of an explanation why he escorted the Colonial Heavy in that old bird?
*blinks*
*sniggers at self*
I swallowed that for at least five times as being totally normal.