*shielding eyes from TSCC spoilers, since I won't watch that till tomorrow*
The whole paragraph about Kara, and Kara and Lee: YES. I've been having a hard time with Kara lately (as I get caught up); I've been having a hard time understanding her and what the show is trying to do with her, in no small part because she feels so cut off from the rest of the characters. So that moment between her and Lee was such a breath of fresh air (and eeeeeeeeeee), for lots of reasons, but one of the primary ones was that they were HAPPY, for a second there. And Lee often (these days) seems to find the perfect combination of rock-steady reassurance/faith and a real knowledge and acceptance of who Kara is. And she obviously values that enormously. And eeeeeeeeeeee I still ship them LIEK WHOA, is basically what I am saying. Hee. But it was lovely, and I watched it several times.
with more or less sobbing and paint-smearing (BILL ADAMA)
HEEEE. (I also had a weird flashback to the Kara/Leoben painting dream sequence, which I suspect--I hope--was not what they intended there.)
And yes, about Laura's musings about the meaning of home. I, too, am getting all nostalgic as the series draws to a close, and somehow the mirror of that in the Galactica herself has worked incredibly well for me.
I've been having a hard time understanding her and what the show is trying to do with her, in no small part because she feels so cut off from the rest of the characters.
In some ways, although they're incredibly different characters, the issues I've been having with seeing inside Kara's head remind me a lot of Aeryn Sun at the beginning of Season 4. The audience isn't privy to her motivations and inner thoughts for a big chunk of time; she's a cypher, seen mostly from the outside. It's distancing. This episode felt like the "Twice Shy" moment for Kara where we finally get inside her head again.
And I just adored that it came back, in the end, to the fundamental equation between Lee and Kara--that no matter what they've been through, including her own death and resurrection, they are there for each other in the same way.
And yes, about Laura's musings about the meaning of home. I, too, am getting all nostalgic as the series draws to a close, and somehow the mirror of that in the Galactica herself has worked incredibly well for me.
I think it's probably a good thing that I'm not that emotionally invested in Laura at this point; I have such a hard time taking Bill seriously that my mind sort of skims over his scenes and extracts the big plot takeaway without dwelling on the details, and I was able to ignore the "your woman" aspects and focus on what she was saying about home. I've been wondering how they were going to handle that since Earth turned out to be a radioactive cinder: what are they looking for now, and what will it mean to them? It's something new, not anchored in their mythology.
Yes, about the comparison with Aeryn! That's a really good point. (I just watched Terra Firma the other night, then had to watch the end of Twice Shy, too. D'awwwww.)
And I just adored that it came back, in the end, to the fundamental equation between Lee and Kara--that no matter what they've been through, including her own death and resurrection, they are there for each other in the same way.
YES. Exactly. That's always been how I've seen them, fundamentally--that they get each other, that despite the anger and hurt in their past, there are times (increasingly more often) when it really is just incredibly simple and easy between them, when they bring each other true--and so it makes me really happy to see those moments. Particularly since basically everything else is unrelenting pain and angst. Heh. I loved seeing Kara smile like that. It's been a while.
Re: Laura: yes. I can completely see what people are objecting to about that scene, and I definitely went "bzuh?" at the idea of her never having felt at home until she was with Bill. But I'm also a sucker for physical structures/living spaces as metaphor (I realize as it keeps coming up over and over again in my own fics), so that, combined with the idea of home being more about people than about place (which is really an echo of what Tigh said earlier, that his family is the crew of the Galactica)... it worked really well for me on that level.
The whole paragraph about Kara, and Kara and Lee: YES. I've been having a hard time with Kara lately (as I get caught up); I've been having a hard time understanding her and what the show is trying to do with her, in no small part because she feels so cut off from the rest of the characters. So that moment between her and Lee was such a breath of fresh air (and eeeeeeeeeee), for lots of reasons, but one of the primary ones was that they were HAPPY, for a second there. And Lee often (these days) seems to find the perfect combination of rock-steady reassurance/faith and a real knowledge and acceptance of who Kara is. And she obviously values that enormously. And eeeeeeeeeeee I still ship them LIEK WHOA, is basically what I am saying. Hee. But it was lovely, and I watched it several times.
with more or less sobbing and paint-smearing (BILL ADAMA)
HEEEE. (I also had a weird flashback to the Kara/Leoben painting dream sequence, which I suspect--I hope--was not what they intended there.)
And yes, about Laura's musings about the meaning of home. I, too, am getting all nostalgic as the series draws to a close, and somehow the mirror of that in the Galactica herself has worked incredibly well for me.
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In some ways, although they're incredibly different characters, the issues I've been having with seeing inside Kara's head remind me a lot of Aeryn Sun at the beginning of Season 4. The audience isn't privy to her motivations and inner thoughts for a big chunk of time; she's a cypher, seen mostly from the outside. It's distancing. This episode felt like the "Twice Shy" moment for Kara where we finally get inside her head again.
And I just adored that it came back, in the end, to the fundamental equation between Lee and Kara--that no matter what they've been through, including her own death and resurrection, they are there for each other in the same way.
And yes, about Laura's musings about the meaning of home. I, too, am getting all nostalgic as the series draws to a close, and somehow the mirror of that in the Galactica herself has worked incredibly well for me.
I think it's probably a good thing that I'm not that emotionally invested in Laura at this point; I have such a hard time taking Bill seriously that my mind sort of skims over his scenes and extracts the big plot takeaway without dwelling on the details, and I was able to ignore the "your woman" aspects and focus on what she was saying about home. I've been wondering how they were going to handle that since Earth turned out to be a radioactive cinder: what are they looking for now, and what will it mean to them? It's something new, not anchored in their mythology.
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And I just adored that it came back, in the end, to the fundamental equation between Lee and Kara--that no matter what they've been through, including her own death and resurrection, they are there for each other in the same way.
YES. Exactly. That's always been how I've seen them, fundamentally--that they get each other, that despite the anger and hurt in their past, there are times (increasingly more often) when it really is just incredibly simple and easy between them, when they bring each other true--and so it makes me really happy to see those moments. Particularly since basically everything else is unrelenting pain and angst. Heh. I loved seeing Kara smile like that. It's been a while.
Re: Laura: yes. I can completely see what people are objecting to about that scene, and I definitely went "bzuh?" at the idea of her never having felt at home until she was with Bill. But I'm also a sucker for physical structures/living spaces as metaphor (I realize as it keeps coming up over and over again in my own fics), so that, combined with the idea of home being more about people than about place (which is really an echo of what Tigh said earlier, that his family is the crew of the Galactica)... it worked really well for me on that level.
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