AfterElton Snapshot: Your signature move for the week ending February 6

 I agree that the webisodes ("The Resistance" "The Razor Minisodes" & "The Face of the Enemy") are canon.  Just as the tv movies "Razor" & the upcoming "The Plan" are canon.  They're made and produced by the same people who make the tv series, and they create them to support the storylines of the show.  Besides, the webisodes that outed Gaeta (as if we even needed proof on that score) were aired on television on January 15, 2009 - the night before the final 10 episodes started airing.  Clearly they were meant to be seen by as many people as possible; not something that was meant to be swept away when the actual episodes aired.  And though they were created after the series ended, they were written to be viewed before the final 10 episodes aired.  To discount them because they were filmed last seems ridiculous when many series and movies film completely out of sequence, and often times come up with new scenes at the last second; that doesn't mean that parts of the movie which were created at the end of the shoot to complete the story don't count - in fact it's often those very scenes that make or break a movie or series.

 For the record, I didn't want Gaeta's insurrection to succeed, but I understood the basis for it.  I don't think Gaeta was evil or a villain.  In many ways, what Gaeta was saying and reacting to was dead on, and he was doing exactly what he thought was right.  And he was the voice for the concerns of a lot of people in the fleet, and for many audience members as well.  I thought it was beautifully played.  The acting, production, writing, the music - were all impressive.  And for the writers to reveal that the character was bi didn't feel like a cheap toss off to the gays - it felt real.  The character has played as gay/bi for years.  And to acknowledge that on screen (they did air on television, and were viwed by thousands of people online) while providing the character a complex storyline and send off was brilliant.  How often do we get complex characters, gay or straight?  On this series, thankfully, we get them fairly often.

 I know from Jane Espenson's commentary that Narcho was intended to be Gaeta's lover, but that the actor wasn't available for the shoot and so they went with Hoshi - which she acknowledged turned out to be a much better choice.  Because of that switch, we now have a gay (or possibly bi) character who wasn't involved in all the drama that fans have no reason to dislike - no matter how they interpret recent events.  It also gives a glimmer of how much Gaeta cared about him when he tells Hoshi to keep his head down and to have a great life.  He's protecting Hoshi in case things don't go the way he wants them to....which is another plus side on Gaeta's behalf.  These details matter.

 And as far as Gaeta's exit from the show is concerned, I thought it was played beautifully.  Another well written character arc brought to a close, with class.  That Gaeta was so at peace, when we haven't seen him like that since the start of the New Caprica arc, was beautiful.  That he had his last rites kind of deal with Baltar (who I'm convinced fooled around with him in the early part of the series - or at least understood that an attraction was there) was a wonderful kind of closure.  I just felt that in the end, Gaeta found what he was looking for, even if it was unconventional.  This is show that doesn't disrespect it's characters, or it's audience.

 And that's my opinion.