I realized last night that while I've mostly stuck to my designation of Tumblr as being for bookmarking and sassy tagging of graphics while journaling is for thoughts. But sometimes those posts turn into short but substantive discussions, and I'd rather have them here.
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why I hate the concept and the other about the
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Oh, completely. I feel like it all adds up to a boundaries thing? If Gaius acknowledges that he gets to say no to anyone at all, then a whole lifetime of violations catches up to him and OH MY GOD he cannot deal with that. But if he keeps on this trajectory where he's okay with everything, it lets him repress. I didn't watch the miniseries first, and so I don't know how much what came later colored my interpretations, but looking back at that first scene when the bombs hit and Caprica's first impulse is to try to convince him that HE TOTALLY WANTED TO BE EXPLOITED. And that just in retrospect strikes me as...very telling. It's as personal a violation as Sharon's Stockholming of Helo, except the result is that instead of being a father he's implicated in genocide. I can...feel if not quite describe how that would support what we see from him throughout the series.
"Man, I can't believe I was trying to make him take that test and made him go to a strip club and then throw up over himself. I mean I signaled the military to ask dad to take routine proficiency tests, with my eyes."
GODS LEE YOU RUIN EVERYTHING, lol.
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