am quite shocked that RDM apparantly saw the whole relationship as them inappropriately having the hots for each other and otherwise mostly one-sided affection on Lee’s side, not to mention all this `they just weren’t meant for each other´ business, which is so cheap and simplistic storytelling and robs them of all complexity I'm shocked too. But evidently he DOES think that. I'm shocked because I feel like that was the most reductive reading of the relationship possible. And I don't think it was that to begin with (or didn't need to be) and he actually had to retcon it to make it even more like that. And yet for 3 seasons it was a central narrative thread, ok sometimes hideously handled, but it definitely seemed like the writers were going somewhere with it... somewhere other than 'all this was not meant to be'. Did he just get fed up of them? It feels a bit like he did. Katee and Jamie had such chemistry in these roles, it seems a TRAGEDY to waste that on making that a cheap, nasty, they-alway-jump-each-other-at-inappropriate-times relationship and nothing more. Sigh.
s a Lee fan it’s still hard to get over the fact that his love was never fully reciprocated Honestly? I don't think I'll ever get over it. I love Lee so deeply from inside his viewpoint that to have him not have the person he loves most in the world love him back is devastating. I know I'm not rational about it, but I've never had a character I feel this connected to in a TV show before and I can't not feel that pain. Also, it's not just Kara. It's EVERYONE. He got left with NOONE. In the vid I made of him, at the end, everyone turns away from him and he embraces his future anyway... and that's exactly what happened on the show AND IT BREAKS MY GODDAMN HEART.
Oops. Sorry! Got a little ranty... can you tell my emotions are still running high on this one?
they should have stayed consistent with the muted way they treated K/L in the finale I know right?! The finale wasn't even INTERNALLY consistent! If you're going to go muted on Kara/Lee, then DO SO FULLY AND PROPERLY and don't dig up some old angst! It really did not add anything and sat really awkwardly in a way that makes me wonder if they'd had this footage ages just hadn't found a spot for it before and flung it in before the end because they had some time to kill. *bitter*
the preachy nature of the episode was insulting to the audience’s intelligence I've found BSG insulting to my intelligence for a good season and a bit, but this took even that to a new level of awful.
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Date: 2009-03-24 02:15 am (UTC)I'm shocked too. But evidently he DOES think that. I'm shocked because I feel like that was the most reductive reading of the relationship possible. And I don't think it was that to begin with (or didn't need to be) and he actually had to retcon it to make it even more like that. And yet for 3 seasons it was a central narrative thread, ok sometimes hideously handled, but it definitely seemed like the writers were going somewhere with it... somewhere other than 'all this was not meant to be'. Did he just get fed up of them? It feels a bit like he did. Katee and Jamie had such chemistry in these roles, it seems a TRAGEDY to waste that on making that a cheap, nasty, they-alway-jump-each-other-at-inappropriate-times relationship and nothing more. Sigh.
s a Lee fan it’s still hard to get over the fact that his love was never fully reciprocated
Honestly? I don't think I'll ever get over it. I love Lee so deeply from inside his viewpoint that to have him not have the person he loves most in the world love him back is devastating. I know I'm not rational about it, but I've never had a character I feel this connected to in a TV show before and I can't not feel that pain. Also, it's not just Kara. It's EVERYONE. He got left with NOONE. In the vid I made of him, at the end, everyone turns away from him and he embraces his future anyway... and that's exactly what happened on the show AND IT BREAKS MY GODDAMN HEART.
Oops. Sorry! Got a little ranty... can you tell my emotions are still running high on this one?
they should have stayed consistent with the muted way they treated K/L in the finale
I know right?! The finale wasn't even INTERNALLY consistent! If you're going to go muted on Kara/Lee, then DO SO FULLY AND PROPERLY and don't dig up some old angst! It really did not add anything and sat really awkwardly in a way that makes me wonder if they'd had this footage ages just hadn't found a spot for it before and flung it in before the end because they had some time to kill. *bitter*
the preachy nature of the episode was insulting to the audience’s intelligence
I've found BSG insulting to my intelligence for a good season and a bit, but this took even that to a new level of awful.