Wow, that's your idea of a rant?! It sounded more like squee to me. ;) Nice jump-in!
My best friend said the same thing: that it was particularly because it was Lee that they'd threatened that made Kara so hardcore. It was almost impossible for me to read it that way because I (still!) find it so hard to see Kara's love for Lee, but... I have to admit... your reading does make a lot of sense. I guess I'm just too scared of believing she really cares that much for Lee in case I get let down again. ;)
Yeah, I don't LIKE Zarek, but I do understand his motivations. BSG's definitely done well at that. I guess that the fact that I feel more sympathetic to the mutineers than 'our heroes' is, in one way, a testament to that... though it's largely frustration at the show that's driving that sympathy. I like the Civil War parallel because there are definite similarities in terms of how (self-)destructive it is, and also how it gets driven out of people feeling like they've reached a point of no return and have to force change at any cost. There's no doubt that civil war is destructive... and yet, I see why people get driven to that extreme. This is a better crafted tragedy to me than the kind of too-heavily-foreshadowed-to-be-a-shock deaths we've had so far this season.
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Date: 2009-02-02 08:56 am (UTC)My best friend said the same thing: that it was particularly because it was Lee that they'd threatened that made Kara so hardcore. It was almost impossible for me to read it that way because I (still!) find it so hard to see Kara's love for Lee, but... I have to admit... your reading does make a lot of sense. I guess I'm just too scared of believing she really cares that much for Lee in case I get let down again. ;)
Yeah, I don't LIKE Zarek, but I do understand his motivations. BSG's definitely done well at that. I guess that the fact that I feel more sympathetic to the mutineers than 'our heroes' is, in one way, a testament to that... though it's largely frustration at the show that's driving that sympathy. I like the Civil War parallel because there are definite similarities in terms of how (self-)destructive it is, and also how it gets driven out of people feeling like they've reached a point of no return and have to force change at any cost. There's no doubt that civil war is destructive... and yet, I see why people get driven to that extreme. This is a better crafted tragedy to me than the kind of too-heavily-foreshadowed-to-be-a-shock deaths we've had so far this season.