Caprica

[Slamz]

I think Picard is that happy medium between stoic and cry in your cereal.

I was thinking that, too.

As I recall, Picard has his breakdown moments, but they were never on the bridge of the ship or out in the hallways with a bucket of paint (well, excluding direct alien mental intervention, anyway). Picard knew when to man up. If he had to go play a sad tune on a piccolo and cry a little bit, he went off and did it in a quiet room.

You can show a character's humanity without turning them into an exploding fountain of vomit, drool, liquor and paint. In fact, someone should make a BSG spoof, like "Meet the Spartans" (which was awful, by the way) and every time Adama comes into the scene, he's flinging paint with one hand, drinking with the other and wearing a bucket around his neck which he vomits into after every drink and tears are streaming down his face the whole time as he flails wildly across the background of the shot.

I think that would be awesome.