Lee Love Week lists

[bop_radar]

I have a problem. I cannot stop working! *stares at clock disconsolately*

But dionusia has declared this Lee Love Week and I am determined to participate in this most wonderful of causes

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[bop_radar]

I've come round on Kara a lot--and on Katee's performance. I must admit I found Starbuck totally over the top in the mini. My best friend was bouncing off the walls and saying 'isn't she AWESOME?' and I was left with 'er... she just seems like a jock guy in a girl's body. I'm not fooled that easily!' So I totally have a double-standard on the genderswitch too. ;) I like when I get to see Kara's layers, and I love it in the rare flashes when I see vulnerability beneath all that macho stuff. I think they've both grown and/or we've got to see extra layers to both characters over the years and so neither of them are a stereotype--they're both complex and interesting.

I think one thing that always made me sympthetic to Lee was that I could see that he was struggling internally--his petulance, if you read it that way, was never fixed, it was always something he was battling with. I'm glad for Lee's sake he's worked through a LOT of stuff. I hope Kara gets to do the same because I'm not sure, with her death/rebirth, that she's quite had the same opportunity to mature. It's different, maybe?

[callmeonetrack]

I was left with 'er... she just seems like a jock guy in a girl's body. I'm not fooled that easily!' ... I love it in the rare flashes when I see vulnerability beneath all that macho stuff.

It's funny because I never really saw her as being that macho. From the minute in the mini when Lee's back from the dead and she sees him and rolls out from under her viper I thought she was so incredibly vulnerable. Just laying it right out there on her sleeve. And he was the nonchalant, seemingly unaffected one. And that continued all through S1 for me. I could so easily read her feelings for him and I wasn't so sure it extended the other way till Colonial Day.

I hope Kara gets to do the same because I'm not sure, with her death/rebirth, that she's quite had the same opportunity to mature. It's different, maybe?

I think it is different. I can't say I've really thought Kara's problem was immaturity so much as just being incredibly frakked up. After New Caprica, I'd argue she's had a lot of moments of maturity (at least as many as Lee: bucking up and going to see Kacey, being honest with Dee in the raptor (both pilots were being immature with the affair so we can't count that), going to Kat in The Passage, her talk with Lee under the wing in Maelstrom.

I think her "special destiny" has really taken over all her storylines and not knowing who or what she is has made it hard to see where she is emotionally. Again I fault the writing in 4.0, TPTB wanting to drag out answers until the end of things both for Kara's rebirth and the K/L ship. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.

[bop_radar]

Ahh, you're a classic Kara fan, alright! :) Kara fans always say they saw her vulnerability straight up. I saw Lee's strength, where others saw a petulant stuck-up brat (I think?). So fascinating!

I can't say I've really thought Kara's problem was immaturity so much as just being incredibly frakked up
Hmm. I think they can be two parts of one coin? I mean I look at Kara's relationships and think 'really immature', but I also realise that her behaviour patterns stem from being frakked-up. Same with Lee--when he and Adama fight it looks immature, for sure, but it also stems from their frakked up family history.

I think her "special destiny" has really taken over all her storylines and not knowing who or what she is has made it hard to see where she is emotionally. Again I fault the writing in 4.0
Gah, yes, totally! I have never felt so disconnected from either Lee OR Kara and I think the writing made it really hard to know where either of them were at. They were mainly being used to advance the plot, very few no interesting character moments at all. I hope the writers get it together.
Gah.