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Yay, too much thought into a TV show! :D

Olmos' Adama is a walking character sketch in post-traumatic stress disorder. See also: Thrace, Kara. Most of the lead characters are the way they are because they're demoralized and inwardly convinced that a life of anxiety and constant suspicion (the foxy yeoman serving drinks COULD BE A CYLON! that coffee you're drinking COULD BE A CYLON! You think that's air you're breathing now? IT'S A CYLON!) is no way to live, and yet it's the only life they have available to them. These people have no home and are beyond hope. They can't feel anything. Putting any sort of time into reflection or emotion is time they spend with their guard down. And there could be Cylons.

In the sense of what we consider life? Yeah, they're all lifeless. These people are already dead, and in the Jem'Hadar tradition, they're fighting for their own lives. Or however that line goes. I only wish the overriding plot of the series were a tenth as interesting as the Dominion War on DS9 was, and that the show lived up to the sort of acting they're getting out of the three main leads: the President, Adama and Thrace. (And I sincerely hope they put the monkey-doctor and his annoying brain wench out the nearest airlock REALLY SOON since they ruin the whole show.)

Post-traumatic stress disorder would explain it. I hadn't thought about all they'd been through, such as how long the war had gone on prior to the Cylon attack, and that different people would react to it differently. I don't put Thrace and Adama in the same category, though. Maybe because Thrace is younger she's not quite as deadened as Adama. Plus, she does have her faith and Adama doesn't.

I know what you mean about Baltar. I keep making up different characters and how they'd unmask his duplicity. I can't wait for him to be 'found out'. Hadn't thought about the air-lock though. ;-)