Cally? ( Minor spoilers)

[maneth]

She looks younger than she is IMO, but an age difference of ten years or so isn't exceptional by any means.

[Starfist]

I actually liked Cally. It was a shame that they killed her off.

[Alterus]

I actually liked Cally. It was a shame that they killed her off.

I've wanted her to go out of the airlock since season two episode four, when she shot Boomer

[maneth]

Why? Boomer shot Adama...

[VampyreWraith]

I thought Cally was kind of annoying and didn't really care for the character much, but I didn't hate her or feel that she deserved to go out an airlock.

[maneth]

My feelings exactly. Sometimes I wondered what Chief Tyrol saw in her, though.

[Crazedwraith]

Why? Boomer shot Adama...

Because revenge killings are A-OK as far as the law goes?

Besides Cally didn't shoot Boomer for shooting Adama but because she was pissed Tyrol was sleeping with Boomer and not her.

[VampyreWraith]

My feelings exactly. Sometimes I wondered what Chief Tyrol saw in her, though.

I wondered that too at times. I suppose she was loyal(she reminded me of a puppy following Tyrol around lol), and she was available and willing to marry him, even after he beat her up. Cally and Tyrol as a couple always felt kinda weird to me.

[Mr.MacGadget]

Wow, and here I was thinking that I was the only one who dislike Cally I mean BSG is all about real characters, full of errors, flaws, so real humans, but Cally... *sighs* I didn't mind her whining and all but she was... dumb... Sorry, but that's how I see her, I mean she was so close-minded. Especially about the Cylons. "You're bunch of toasters" or "bunch of skinjobs" and that was it for her. I mean common, after all these years, and she still has to be this stupid? And I'm not saying that she should love Cylons at all, but she judged them - and everyone else - very easily, without knowing th facts, or without thinking, IMO.

[BruTak]

I actually liked Cally. It was a shame that they killed her off.

Agreed.

Cally may look like she should've been sitting at home playing with her Barbies (or whatever the Colonial equivalent is), but she's a tough cookie. She's had one of her best friends (Socinus) die in her arms. She's come within a hairsbreadth of being raped, then is shot in the stomach at close range. She survived a Raptor crash and being hunted by Cylons on Kobol...

Need I go on?

[P-90_177]

Wow, and here I was thinking that I was the only one who dislike Cally I mean BSG is all about real characters, full of errors, flaws, so real humans, but Cally... *sighs* I didn't mind her whining and all but she was... dumb... Sorry, but that's how I see her, I mean she was so close-minded. Especially about the Cylons. "You're bunch of toasters" or "bunch of skinjobs" and that was it for her. I mean common, after all these years, and she still has to be this stupid? And I'm not saying that she should love Cylons at all, but she judged them - and everyone else - very easily, without knowing th facts, or without thinking, IMO.

That's pretty much how everyone was in the show. The only person in the first two seasons who didn't judge them to be "Frakking Toasters" was Helo. In season 3 it was Adama, Helo and Starbuck but only towards Athena. Then in season 4 even when they had the cylons as Allies it was a pretty damn uneasy truce.
It's easy to watch a show when you're sitting at home comfortable and seeing both sides of an argument and call someone closed minded. But even at the end of the series these people were still angry and in pain.
Not to mention the fact that Cally (Very realistically I felt) was suffering from major depression through season 4. Yeah she was whiney but that's how people get a lot of the time.
As for what the Chief saw in her; he himself said that she was the best of limited options. And to be fair the girl was very loving towards the chief for a long long time. And she was cute in a girlish sorta way. It happens.

Interestingly as well, going into the Psychology of some of the Galactica's crew, one thing I always noticed is that the Deck Gang was always some of the most vocal against the cylons. This I think can be pretty understandable. For starters they were put under a tremendous amount of pressure. Pilots had down time to rest up and training and patrol isn't exactly as full on as combat. Likewise for other officers and marines. The engineers and deck crew on the other hand was constantly full on. Why? Because there is always something to fix. There were no spare parts so anything that was full on busted had to be fabricated on top of regular maintenance. That's a constant high pressure job there. On top of that these are people who essentially fix up birds so they can send off pilots to die, and as they also doubled as damage control teams this also carried a lot of risk to themselves. All this kinda all adds onto the stress. In the end it's pretty understandable why Cally would be so loco.

[Mr.MacGadget]

I guess you're right, but still, the only person who was annoying for me, that was Cally. President Roslin, Adama etc. were close minded too, yes... I still liked them, I could understand their feelings, motives etc. But Cally, IDK... maybe the actress wasn't good enough, lol. Or maybe because she realized that her husband is a Cylon, the father of her child... and then she still said 'fraking clyons' and wanted to kill herself and her son. Of course it was a shock for her, her whole world just ended in a way, so I get it, but still... she was annoying, end of line