I know it is sort of cheating putting two in one post, but they really are two halves of one doink. From the popular sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica, comes the doink duo of Saul and Ellen Tigh. In the series, Saul is a colonel aboard the Battlestar Galactica, and Ellen is his wife. What makes these two so doinkdom worthy you ask? Well, I suppose we should start with the first requirement: annoying personality traits. Saul is an alcoholic and quite frankly starts acting even more like a doink while under the influence. Usually throwing violent fits of rage, denying obvious facts just because it will make someone he doesn't like happy, and making him easily manipulatable by his wife. Ellen is for lack of a better term a slut. She will sleep with any one, and her idiot husband never gets wise to it. Worse still, she love power, and when Saul ended up in temporary command, she had a field day of fraking just about everything up through Saul. She will do just about anything for power especially sleep with someone. Back on Saul, despite the fact that he is second in command, he has very poor leadership skills. Throughout his time on longterm command, he couldn't do anything unless someone suggested it. As you can see, both are more than qualified in the personality department. Let's move on to the second category: annoying situations. As stated, Saul was placed in long term command of Galactica once and my god was it painful. He yelled at people for doing their jobs, insulted many main characters because he was drunk, and was ordered around by his wife. She caused him to insult And attempt to bring down the former president Laura Roslin, declare martial law, and send in a marine force who killed 4 people! Throughout this time I was praying for the commander to return and a remove him, and by connection her from power. This being the largest annoying situation, there are some other minor ones. Ellen being an annoying person already, ends up being a key part of the story later. This part seemed rushed, and I didn't enjoy her role at all. Saul ended up playing a similar role in a similar situation and I had basically the same reaction. They are both also clearly qualified in the area of annoying situations, moving on to bogging down the main characters in multiple situations. As stated, Saul has insulted and bogged down the main characters many times. So far he has insulted the president, insulted and confined the c.a.g., and taken a swing at them more than once. As well as punching the deck chief because he was drunk and he "thought" he was a cylon spy. Ellen as stated made terrible decisions for Saul during his time in command, as well as attempting to seduce the commander, and his son, to try to get Saul to attack them. She also gave away their position to the enemy in an attempt to leave capture. The final nail on the coffin is of course, could the series have worked without them? Frankly yes, it could! Both Saul and Ellen's major roles could have been replaced with a number of main characters instead, Ellen was basically a subplot gone wrong from the beginning anyway, and a nameless or more polite version of Saul would have taken his place as ex-o very easily. In the 80's battlestar series, Saul was a nice guy! There was no reason to take his character in this direction. It's official folks, we have our first doinks.
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