Resurrection Ship Part II

[teachlikeroslin]

And we're back! I must apologize for the delay (as I know all of you are just dying with the anticipation of what I, teachlikeroslin/Annie, think about these episodes). I don't even have any good excuses. I've just been super lazy and filled with Netflix that took up my precious BSG time.

I know. I suck.

But here we are! Resurrection Ship Part II! I

Comments

[rachg82]

This line says it all: "Sometimes terrible things have to be done."

One of my favorite quotes of the entire series, especially for how she delivers it. It's absolutely haunting.

Also, I 100% agree with you about Cain.

She's essentially giving Starbuck permission to kill her

Exactly. And I believe you can see that she knows that's what Kara was sent to do at the end. She knows & she doesn't judge her for it. And I think she senses that Adama called off his assassination, and it helped inspire her to do the same.

I honestly don't know which reason makes him so emo

I think it's the whole thing. The fact that people have been brought to this point. Remember that he's a very idealistic man. He believes in the system, and in rules, and for him to think his father & the president would set out to kill an admiral & order Kara to do it because they didn't agree with what she was doing--despite that it was legal--was probably not only frightening to him on that level, but really depressing as well. What kind of future do you think he saw for himself & for his people, based on that perspective? I mean, you and I both know why Adama & Roslin were making the decision they did, but do you think Lee knew? He probably didn't know half the things about Cain that they did.

You know what I don't buy? Leemo's sudden propensity for suicide. WTF? Where is this coming from? Captain Colonial himself? It feels really contrived

I actually completely buy it, and love how suicidal feelings are portrayed on this show (both with Lee & then later with Dee). Coming from someone who has been at that point in her life in the past, it felt totally realistic to me. Suicidal tendencies don't have to come from some clear outside event that others can point to & understand, nor does depression have to be something others can even predict or notice (for instance, no one around me knew I was depressed when I was younger until it was really severe). It sneaks up on you, and can surprise those around you. It can be quiet & keep building until something happens that makes you just want to snap & give up, and you'll feel like you're just drowning in it. The image of Lee letting himself drown in that water made me basically weep when I saw it, because it rang so true to me.

On top of that, I think it's important to remember that Lee, like so many others, lost people he cared about during the attacks. Lost his whole world. And now spends nearly every single day killing other living beings and facing death himself. With no guarantee of hope that it'll get better. And now he sees what looks to be the human race turning on each other & falling apart. I really don't think it's surprising that someone might fall apart under the weight of all that.

Anyway, sorry to ramble! Hee. But it's one of my favorite moments of the episode. I think it's incredibly beautiful in a really painful way.

It's not enough to survive. One has to be worthy of surviving

Yet another of my favorite quotes! :-)

Bear McCreary is amazing. That is all

This should probably just be the last sentence of every recap you do, because it'd almost always be appropriate. Ha.

[teachlikeroslin]

Your point about Lee and depression is well taken. It would never occur to me to take my own life (I'll keep my claws hooked into this one as long as I can) so I can't really put myself into that kind of world.

But I suppose I still have an issue. It'd be one thing if Lee were just some person off the street or even a friend, because I wouldn't know that person or friend in their unguarded moments. They'd have this whole private life I wouldn't be privy to. But, in this case, since Lee is a fictional character, we can follow him into his more unguarded moments. I know more about his psyche because I see him in all of his moments. Now, I guess you could argue that Lee is in denial to the point where he can't even let his guard down when he's alone and I'd even concede to that point. There's just something about it, for me, that doesn't ring true because at this point in the series, I feel like I've known Lee, facade and no facade and with the way that I've come to define him, suicidal tendencies just doesn't compute.

Um, if that makes sense.

But, as I said, I have no experience in this area. But we all bring our own biases to anything we watch, yeah? Which is the really cool thing about fandom, I find, and why I love when people comment on my posts because there's nothing I like better than hearing other fans' interpretations. For real, yo.