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?
And you would have thought there would have been more questions as to who she was with, what she might have shared with the person or persons she had contact with, etc. Given how suspicious people had grown of each other, and not without reason, it seemed off that Kara was so readily accepted back into the fold.
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.
That probably threw me more than anything else did in the time jump. Lee and Kara tense with each other? No surprise. Lee and Kara not seeing eye to eye and taking it personally? Again, no surprise. Even Kara living on NC wasn't a total shock. But she and Tigh hugging?!?! And, yes, that definitely needed to be explained, but there could have been better ways to do it.
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.
Marrying Anders like she did seemed a bit rash even by Kara Thrace standards, but I could rationalize it. The night she slept with Lee and they declared their love in a ridiculous fashion, for a moment, she had it all and was happy. Lee was planning a life for them together. It wasn't until the next morning that the reality of everything hit her and, I felt, it terrified her. Now, believing herself the screw-up, unworthy of love, who only leaves disaster in her wake - Zak died, in part, because of her actions and love for him - the only way she could see to protect herself and Lee was to do something so hurtful that he wouldn't and couldn't be with her. Of course, she didn't really think that plan out because she lost her best friend for over a year.
The scene in EoJ was very problematic for me, probably because of my views on hypocrisy in religion. She couldn't get a divorce because she'd be sinning in the eyes of the gods, but she can be unfaithful to her husband and hurt three people in the process and that is OK? I wasn't happy with Lee in all this, but at least his plan was to leave Dee and stop the lies.
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And you would have thought there would have been more questions as to who she was with, what she might have shared with the person or persons she had contact with, etc. Given how suspicious people had grown of each other, and not without reason, it seemed off that Kara was so readily accepted back into the fold.
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.
That probably threw me more than anything else did in the time jump. Lee and Kara tense with each other? No surprise. Lee and Kara not seeing eye to eye and taking it personally? Again, no surprise. Even Kara living on NC wasn't a total shock. But she and Tigh hugging?!?! And, yes, that definitely needed to be explained, but there could have been better ways to do it.
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.
Marrying Anders like she did seemed a bit rash even by Kara Thrace standards, but I could rationalize it. The night she slept with Lee and they declared their love
in a ridiculous fashion, for a moment, she had it all and was happy. Lee was planning a life for them together. It wasn't until the next morning that the reality of everything hit her and, I felt, it terrified her. Now, believing herself the screw-up, unworthy of love, who only leaves disaster in her wake - Zak died, in part, because of her actions and love for him - the only way she could see to protect herself and Lee was to do something so hurtful that he wouldn't and couldn't be with her. Of course, she didn't really think that plan out because she lost her best friend for over a year.The scene in EoJ was very problematic for me, probably because of my views on hypocrisy in religion. She couldn't get a divorce because she'd be sinning in the eyes of the gods, but she can be unfaithful to her husband and hurt three people in the process and that is OK? I wasn't happy with Lee in all this, but at least his plan was to leave Dee and stop the lies.