It seems like such a completely surreal thing for her to do. Tigh??? I mean... Tigh??? At least it wasn't Hot Dog...
I like your idea abou tit being a writers device to support what they'd built up later on - I think I'd have liked to have seen a scene post-Exodus where Tigh found out where Kara had actually been, because Torn felt "off" to me; I could understand Tigh sweeping up Tyrol or someone similar into his 'you're not a real man unless you were down in the dirt of the trenches with us' party, but no-one in the Resistance had seen Kara for months, and she didn't have any outward signs of being tortured like Tigh, so where's the connection?
You've got me wondering if perhaps this was also a scene forced by LDYB - I remember it floating around the blogosphere that RDM had said they filmed the ending for LDYB with no idea how they were going to start S3, just a vague confidence that if they were renewed, the writers could sort it all out. Having had Tigh and Kara hugging like best friends out of the blue in LDYB II needed some sort of explanation, which adds to your argument.
I've tried various ways of looking at why Kara ran away, but I'm conscious that I don't have anything like the grasp of her character I feel I have of Lee - and the way S3 rolled out, I eventually went with "we need a reason to keep them apart for another season" and filed it as a slightly less extreme version of the "I took an oath" scene that came completely out of left field in TEOJ. I know it did feel in-character for Kara to commit to a course of action completely, even a stupid one, without looking back; she throws everything into whatever she's doing at the time. I guess it's a scene that's never going to work for me because while I like a degree of ambiguity, it felt like going to extremes after so little explanation.
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I like your idea abou tit being a writers device to support what they'd built up later on - I think I'd have liked to have seen a scene post-Exodus where Tigh found out where Kara had actually been, because Torn felt "off" to me; I could understand Tigh sweeping up Tyrol or someone similar into his 'you're not a real man unless you were down in the dirt of the trenches with us' party, but no-one in the Resistance had seen Kara for months, and she didn't have any outward signs of being tortured like Tigh, so where's the connection?
You've got me wondering if perhaps this was also a scene forced by LDYB - I remember it floating around the blogosphere that RDM had said they filmed the ending for LDYB with no idea how they were going to start S3, just a vague confidence that if they were renewed, the writers could sort it all out. Having had Tigh and Kara hugging like best friends out of the blue in LDYB II needed some sort of explanation, which adds to your argument.
I've tried various ways of looking at why Kara ran away, but I'm conscious that I don't have anything like the grasp of her character I feel I have of Lee - and the way S3 rolled out, I eventually went with "we need a reason to keep them apart for another season" and filed it as a slightly less extreme version of the "I took an oath" scene that came completely out of left field in TEOJ. I know it did feel in-character for Kara to commit to a course of action completely, even a stupid one, without looking back; she throws everything into whatever she's doing at the time. I guess it's a scene that's never going to work for me because while I like a degree of ambiguity, it felt like going to extremes after so little explanation.