ext_10602 ([identity profile] asta77.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] bop_radar 2008-03-20 03:33 am (UTC)

The extended version is very revealing, but it left me with far more conflicted feelings than the short version did.

Me too. At first, I loathed it and found it difficult to even look at Lee/Jamie, but taking a few days to think about, as painful as this was to watch, it did cause me to have some epiphanies about Lee which was a good thing. I can’t say I had a positive view of Lee in this ep, but I did have a greater understanding of him and, shockingly, more sympathy for him than I expected to have.

I think this version makes everything--the fighting, the frakking, the marrying--a FAR bigger screwover of Dee.

I agree that the episode really screwed over Dee, but because I had zero sympathy for her by the end of it. She knew her soon to be husband was in love with another and even tells him that she’s sure he’ll leave her once Kara walks back into his life, yet I’m suppose to feel sorry for her when her prediction almost comes true? She made her choice and it was a bad one.

Kara dialogue seemed revealing to me. Her line about not trying to change Sam's mind read to me like a line she'd prepared in advance--because Sam wasn't talking about his mind in that moment, he was talking about hers.

Hmmm, I didn’t see it as prepared. She seemed quite hurt when he suggested she wanted to be with Lee, not him. If we believe she had a real interest in having married quarters (as her later comment to Lee suggests) it tells me that she wanted to work on her marriage. Does it mean she’d eventually just get over Lee and make her marriage work? I don’t know, but I liked that they made it clear in this extended scene that Sam was more than a convenient frak and if Kara could be hurt by his words than it means she has some strong feelings for him.

The line ties with Kara's call about Lee not knowing 'when to make his moves and when to hold back'. (But when IS that, Kara? could you give him a guidebook, because it sure as hell isn't clear to me!)

Hee! Seriously, Lee bares his soul (and more ;) to her and she runs off and marries another guy the next morning. So I guess he needed to hold back. But until when? I could never fault him in ‘Taking a Break’ for wanting a definite commitment from her before he upended his life for her…again.

I liked that Kara played up the innuendo with the bedroom--it was a bit more of a come-on then we'd seen from her in the edited version and helps explain how Lee got the courage up to make a move.

I agree. I had thought it was just the liquor. ;)

Also, I really loved Kara saying 'I think things just got more complicated'. It made an even clearer parallel to their post-coital scene in the field.

It was a clear parallel, but I hated that they ended on that line. For me, it makes the affair/almost affair they embark on seem more premeditated on her part. It’s her admission that she has him back in her life and an assumption that they’ll pick up where they left off, forget Dee and Sam.

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