[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
That's the nature of fighters. If it were like Battlestar Galactica where none of the 'good guys' get killed that would be unbalanced, too.

I seem to recall more than a few colonial fighters getting zapped, just never one of the main three guys. It was like the red shirts in Star Trek. If a fighter jockey you had never seen before all of a sudden had a central role in the plot at the begining of the episode, you knew he was in trouble.

Didn't happen as often as on Trek though. They didn't really have all that many fighter battles after the pilot. But when they did they usually lost a couple guys that you had never seen before IIRC.

Geoschmo