Battlestar, because you were brilliant and superb, and I shall miss you, though I hope that sci-fi as a genre will mutate into something wondrous under your influence.
But anyway, you've said everything that I've been mulling over about the ending. Baltar had, all this time, doing what he was doing for Caprica, even if they weren't fully reunited until the end. I don't think he really realized it until he saw her in the crowd that was going. Not until after she'd rejected him, not until Lee told him to pull his head out of his ass. took everyone long enough XD
For Baltar coming full circle was a bit painful, and I did tear up when he started crying into his hand. I'd like to think that he wasn't lamenting his fate, and rather regretting profoundly how badly he'd treated his father. And that Caprica had done for his father what he would not.
I'm glad that the destroyers of man were given a second chance together, to live out their lives peacefully.
As for Kara and Lee, I will admit, I was very sad for him, but someone put it in a way that makes a surprising amount of sense. Kara had always been able to let go of Lee, and that was established from the beginning, when she thought he'd died in the miniseries. She didn't cry for him. Lee wasn't in a place where he was ready to let her go in Maelstrom. He was calling her back because he wasn't done, even though she was. In Daybreak pt 2, he's reached that place where he could let her go. Knowing that she's happy elsewhere is enough (though I privately think that she would come from time to time and check on him). She'll be there when he's ready to leave the life he's got now. She'll be waiting for him.
I want to believe that Lee saw his father again before Adama died, because just going off alone doesn't seem right. They weren't ever very close knit... but still. Family is family. Would've liked to see the goodbye between Adama and the Tighs too. They've been friends too long for them to not have one. I was kind of surprised that it wasn't shown.
And now I've cried again, because like Lee in Maelstrom, I'm not ready to let it go.
I wish it wasn't moving season, I'd love to go bum around DC with you XD Also, finally got a Baltar and Caprica icon xD
I bawled for Adama losing Laura. I bawled when they panned out as he was talking. Godsdamn, Eddie Olmos is a good actor.
I'll say it, I've been a shipper for Lee and Kara from the beginning, even though it wouldn't have been a great relationship. They are too much alike, and there *would* be domestic violence. Not enough control over themselves in the first two seasons. Perhaps it was due to some of the gender lines being so blurred, but it never came as a shock when Lee would retaliate and hit her back after she'd slugged him in the face. But then again, with them maybe that was the point. Regardless of that, there was something volatile there, something raw and primal between them that begged for them to get around the barriers that had always been in place--Zack. Sam. Dee.---so that explosion could occur. Kara was always afraid of getting what she truly wanted, and maybe that made it easier for her to let it go, because she never really had it and held it in her hands. Sam felt too much like settling, regardless of whether or not that he'd proved himself worthy of her.
But I could go on and on about that XD I'm glad that my most favorite pairing worked out, and I hope that Baltar gave Caprica lots of babies and didn't lose his flagging sanity in the process. :3
My god. I think I killed this thread entirely. O_o Only meant to fix my post because I didn't want this flocked anymore. Oh well. XD
So this is... what you were replying to. And I think what I was replying to got inexplicably vaporized as well.
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It did? XD That is incredibly bizarre. *fixes*
I kind of felt that Baltar crying into his hand might not have been entirely him being depressed about his fate as much as, perhaps, recognizing the absurdity of it all. Which is kind of close, I suppose, but it just felt like a little bit more. It did make me take back my "I hope Baltar dies" original statement, though.
Yes on Kara and Lee, though. This episode almost made me ship it, I think.
But anyway, you've said everything that I've been mulling over about the ending. Baltar had, all this time, doing what he was doing for Caprica, even if they weren't fully reunited until the end. I don't think he really realized it until he saw her in the crowd that was going. Not until after she'd rejected him, not until Lee told him to pull his head out of his ass. took everyone long enough XD
For Baltar coming full circle was a bit painful, and I did tear up when he started crying into his hand. I'd like to think that he wasn't lamenting his fate, and rather regretting profoundly how badly he'd treated his father. And that Caprica had done for his father what he would not.
I'm glad that the destroyers of man were given a second chance together, to live out their lives peacefully.
As for Kara and Lee, I will admit, I was very sad for him, but someone put it in a way that makes a surprising amount of sense. Kara had always been able to let go of Lee, and that was established from the beginning, when she thought he'd died in the miniseries. She didn't cry for him. Lee wasn't in a place where he was ready to let her go in Maelstrom. He was calling her back because he wasn't done, even though she was. In Daybreak pt 2, he's reached that place where he could let her go. Knowing that she's happy elsewhere is enough (though I privately think that she would come from time to time and check on him). She'll be there when he's ready to leave the life he's got now. She'll be waiting for him.
I want to believe that Lee saw his father again before Adama died, because just going off alone doesn't seem right. They weren't ever very close knit... but still. Family is family. Would've liked to see the goodbye between Adama and the Tighs too. They've been friends too long for them to not have one. I was kind of surprised that it wasn't shown.
And now I've cried again, because like Lee in Maelstrom, I'm not ready to let it go.
I wish it wasn't moving season, I'd love to go bum around DC with you XD Also, finally got a Baltar and Caprica icon xD
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I'll say it, I've been a shipper for Lee and Kara from the beginning, even though it wouldn't have been a great relationship. They are too much alike, and there *would* be domestic violence. Not enough control over themselves in the first two seasons. Perhaps it was due to some of the gender lines being so blurred, but it never came as a shock when Lee would retaliate and hit her back after she'd slugged him in the face. But then again, with them maybe that was the point. Regardless of that, there was something volatile there, something raw and primal between them that begged for them to get around the barriers that had always been in place--Zack. Sam. Dee.---so that explosion could occur. Kara was always afraid of getting what she truly wanted, and maybe that made it easier for her to let it go, because she never really had it and held it in her hands. Sam felt too much like settling, regardless of whether or not that he'd proved himself worthy of her.
But I could go on and on about that XD I'm glad that my most favorite pairing worked out, and I hope that Baltar gave Caprica lots of babies and didn't lose his flagging sanity in the process. :3
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So this is... what you were replying to. And I think what I was replying to got inexplicably vaporized as well.
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It did? XD That is incredibly bizarre. *fixes*
I kind of felt that Baltar crying into his hand might not have been entirely him being depressed about his fate as much as, perhaps, recognizing the absurdity of it all. Which is kind of close, I suppose, but it just felt like a little bit more. It did make me take back my "I hope Baltar dies" original statement, though.
Yes on Kara and Lee, though. This episode almost made me ship it, I think.
Baltar/Six icon is love. I need more. :D
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