BSG 4.13 The Oath
I am meant to start my Insane Vidding Project today, so this is the world's worst timing... but BSG produced an enjoyable episode this week! (mskatej, I'd still wait until they do so consistently if I were you!) I mean, the show was still batshit, but in a FUN way.
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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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