I like your take, I like your take! Especially because Maelstrom was far more effective an episode for me--I sobbed like a baby when Kara died because at the time I was a completely unspoiled naive thing who didn't realise she would get resurrected! And it was all so beautifully tragic... I'd much rather they had ended there.
I do wish Angel!Kara hadn't a) been such an ass on the Demetrius, b) had absusive sex with her husband, c) sapped on about him when he got shot so much, or d) been so flooby and existential-angsty when it was all so POINTLESS. But! I see that we are supposed to believe that despite all that Lee found peace of a sort. I just... I dunno, it was so badly told and such a long bow to pull... I could buy it if Lee had known all along that Kara wasn't going to be with them for long and if he found his zen by realising that was ok. But it was such a slapped-on-the-end realisation...
You can see I'm struggling with the execution still.
But why should I listen to what RDM has to say about this, real artists don’t tell people how to interpret their work. That's absolutely true and I hate the way he thinks he has the right to tell us how to interpret his art and yet takes such a completely random approach to it and leaves it with massive plotholes.
This out of nowhere, pseudo-arty „they’re forever stuck on the table“ „never meant to be“ business just came to him, it's his reading, it doesn’t change what came before. You know... I think there was a time when I could have bought that view on them. That time was before UB and the rest of Season 3. If the Zak flashbacks had been canonical earlier in the series, then around Scar I would have said that view was possible. But EVEN THEN I would have said it was the least interesting way for the writer to approach them because it leaves them trapped like that and allows for no emotional growth. And both Kara and Lee desperately needed emotional growth in relationship terms--with each other or with their spouses, but with SOMEONE. And Lee's spouse dumped him and then shot herself, and Kara's got dumped and then got shot... leaving Kara/Lee the only real place where that could happen. But you know what it comes down to? And this is what I realised ages ago and why I was sure we wouldn't get a satisfying Kara/Lee end... RDM is incapable of writing these characters having a functional successful relationship or even seriously beginning one. He's unable and unwilling. He evidently doesn't think it's 'edgy' enough. And yet we had to endure no end of boring bedside-reading Adama/Roslin sap. *yawn* It fascinates me that he could create one of my favourite all-time ships and then... do nothing with it.
I’ll just take the image of UB of Sam lying passed out under the table while Lee and Kara are sneaking off to shack up, and say they’re forever stuck in that moment ;) Hahaha, yeah...! I'll take that moment too! Or the moment when Kara came back with the arrow, all lit up in light and Lee just scooped her up in his arms. :) Except that didn't have a table, did it? Damn.
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I do wish Angel!Kara hadn't a) been such an ass on the Demetrius, b) had absusive sex with her husband, c) sapped on about him when he got shot so much, or d) been so flooby and existential-angsty when it was all so POINTLESS. But! I see that we are supposed to believe that despite all that Lee found peace of a sort. I just... I dunno, it was so badly told and such a long bow to pull... I could buy it if Lee had known all along that Kara wasn't going to be with them for long and if he found his zen by realising that was ok. But it was such a slapped-on-the-end realisation...
You can see I'm struggling with the execution still.
But why should I listen to what RDM has to say about this, real artists don’t tell people how to interpret their work.
That's absolutely true and I hate the way he thinks he has the right to tell us how to interpret his art and yet takes such a completely random approach to it and leaves it with massive plotholes.
This out of nowhere, pseudo-arty „they’re forever stuck on the table“ „never meant to be“ business just came to him, it's his reading, it doesn’t change what came before.
You know... I think there was a time when I could have bought that view on them. That time was before UB and the rest of Season 3. If the Zak flashbacks had been canonical earlier in the series, then around Scar I would have said that view was possible. But EVEN THEN I would have said it was the least interesting way for the writer to approach them because it leaves them trapped like that and allows for no emotional growth. And both Kara and Lee desperately needed emotional growth in relationship terms--with each other or with their spouses, but with SOMEONE. And Lee's spouse dumped him and then shot herself, and Kara's got dumped and then got shot... leaving Kara/Lee the only real place where that could happen. But you know what it comes down to? And this is what I realised ages ago and why I was sure we wouldn't get a satisfying Kara/Lee end... RDM is incapable of writing these characters having a functional successful relationship or even seriously beginning one. He's unable and unwilling. He evidently doesn't think it's 'edgy' enough. And yet we had to endure no end of boring bedside-reading Adama/Roslin sap. *yawn* It fascinates me that he could create one of my favourite all-time ships and then... do nothing with it.
I’ll just take the image of UB of Sam lying passed out under the table while Lee and Kara are sneaking off to shack up, and say they’re forever stuck in that moment ;)
Hahaha, yeah...! I'll take that moment too! Or the moment when Kara came back with the arrow, all lit up in light and Lee just scooped her up in his arms. :) Except that didn't have a table, did it? Damn.