Battlestar Galactica 2.17: The Captain's Hand
It is apparently my way to be intelligent about the shallow shows and shallow about the intelligent shows, so I'm just going to do lists today.
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Oh yes it was! LOVE I think it will go down as one of my favourite BSG moments.
I like your comment about it meaning more to Lee because his father admitted his previous failure. I hadn't thought of that part of it, but it makes total sense. I definitely saw that it meant a lot that his father was relying on him. He looked so awe-struck by that.
It's likely it has to do with confronting the past (the dead Caprica girlfriend, his failures) but that hasn't been made clear at all
No, it hasn't. Which is a pity, because they could have scripted 'Black Market' differently to work towards a catharsis for Lee on those matters, but it felt like they were trying to do too much in that ep.
I totally agree with you that Lee did his best in the circumstances of military command. He was in the command position and he needed to assert authority over her, not to mention that Garner would be justified in complaining if he displayed obvious partial treatment to Starbuck. I honestly think Starbuck knew all that as well and was just being pissy with her 'thanks Major!' lines because of her own angst. Typical Starbuck-y self-sabotage there. I could see Lee really making an effort not to piss her off completely and simply override her. He trusted her judgement because he knows her and he supported her plan. It's interesting because Garner dismissed the plan because it was Starbuck's plan but arguably Lee supported it for just the same reason. Both of them could potentially be accused of subjectivity there. It's just that Lee was right; he knows when it pays to listen to Kara.
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