Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow View Post
The worst thing about Bill Adama breaking down every episode is it just doesn't strike me as something the old man would do. In the first couple of seasons when all the others were giving up and breaking down he stayed strong and kept them focused on the goal of surviving he didn't truly believe in the earth prophecy but he used it as a way to keep morale high and as a goal because really he had nothing else to achieve. Ok so they find earth and it's a nuked wasteland but he has a goal now which is to find a home for them. Now he's just crying and breaking down constantly it doesn't fit with who Bill Adama is.
Personally, I think the fact that it took finding out his best friend is a Cylon, they probably have no chance of finding a new home (seriously, how many habitable planets have they come across in four years?), and that he's going to lose Roslin and the Galactica shows he's one tough son of a smurf. Some may think it's out of character, but I don't feel that way. He feels like he's losing everything he had left that he really cared about with the exception of Apollo lately, as if it weren't hard enough for him to find reasons to keep going. The man's been through a lot and it's (finally) taking it's toll.

That said, I could do with a few less extended breakdowns on his part. If he's going to do it I'd rather see it be like the one he had when Kara died. That one always seemed to get the grief across to me without over doing it.