annathepiper | (Reply)

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I don't think there's a complicated, mysterious answer to this question. My answer to this would be nothing more than "he's the strong, smart, skilled commander of the last surviving battlestar; take out the military commander, and you throw the entire force into disarray".

Any little bit of chaos that the Cylons can create in the Fleet works to their advantage; it's psychological warfare. And as long as they're sewing seeds of chaos and discord all over the Fleet, it doesn't matter if one single seed never actually catches--because another one might, and turn into the situation they need to take the Fleet down completely.

This is why I think that the Cylon in "Flesh and Bone" was specifically out to create that very kind of chaos, rather than something so obvious as planting a hidden nuclear device--and his little contribution to the chaos was making Roslin think, even if temporarily, that Adama might be a Cylon.