Battlestar: awesome again
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dangermousieOoooh, BSG ep.
Short version: It was really really good. Wow, I’ve almost forgotten they could do Lee-centric eps that didn’t suck.
You know, Starbuck seems to be dead for good, with the gradual mourning. And you know what? I loved her but if they keep on making good eps, I don’t mind.
I really loved the undercurrent of grief and loss in this ep: Anders (who broke my heart in both of his scenes and who can be emotionally open in a way Lee cannot), the crew in general, and of course Lee.
Oh Lee. Lee who is fraying, losing it (but realistically, small things, not silly fat suits or whatever). Who holds onto the photograph of Kara, who seems diminished somehow. Losing Kara is like losing part of his humanity. She and Adama are the only two people who could really get behind his barriers. It’s too easy for him to slip into reserve. I wonder if his marriage with Dee will eventually fall apart and if so, it would make sense and I am glad that if it will happen, it will happen with Kara not there. Because I never got the sense that Dee could breech those barriers, for whatever reason, and not being able to connect is a much more realistic reason for marriage dysfunction than hot quadrangle of lurve.
I get the sense that much as he is motivated by justice and being a serial contrarian (heeee), part of the reason Lee seizes on the law thing is as something to throw himself into after Kara’s death, to fill the hole, to find a reason for being. Because whatever they were to each other, they were integral to each other and now he’s lost it.
But also because he really is about rule of law and abstract principles. You know, in that this is very much like early S2 ep. In fact, except for certain continuity things, this totally could have been early S2 ep, in Lee’s idealism, in the grief running through the crew, in the almost-but-never-quite-there attempts at communication between Adama and Lee (‘is that an order?’ scene was awesome).
I liked the ‘lawyer’ who might have been very unlawyerly but quite riveting as a character and a good judge of character. I am amused that poor Helo now has to be a CAG (the boy has many hats) and loved that Athena herself seems to have forgotten her Cylonity.
But really, it was all about Lee. The whole ‘two weeks’ conversation with Adama (where his grief is like a constant wound, true), calling Racetrack ‘Starbuck’ at the briefing, desperate need to hang onto Lambkin’s words (especially the impossible love for a woman. Because if it’s true, Lambkin is a survivor of what Lee experienced.)
His rapport with Anders. I get a sense that they do have a connection now, because of Kara.
Btw, drunk Anders at the beginning? Did I mention breaking my heart?
Short version: It was really really good. Wow, I’ve almost forgotten they could do Lee-centric eps that didn’t suck.
You know, Starbuck seems to be dead for good, with the gradual mourning. And you know what? I loved her but if they keep on making good eps, I don’t mind.
I really loved the undercurrent of grief and loss in this ep: Anders (who broke my heart in both of his scenes and who can be emotionally open in a way Lee cannot), the crew in general, and of course Lee.
Oh Lee. Lee who is fraying, losing it (but realistically, small things, not silly fat suits or whatever). Who holds onto the photograph of Kara, who seems diminished somehow. Losing Kara is like losing part of his humanity. She and Adama are the only two people who could really get behind his barriers. It’s too easy for him to slip into reserve. I wonder if his marriage with Dee will eventually fall apart and if so, it would make sense and I am glad that if it will happen, it will happen with Kara not there. Because I never got the sense that Dee could breech those barriers, for whatever reason, and not being able to connect is a much more realistic reason for marriage dysfunction than hot quadrangle of lurve.
I get the sense that much as he is motivated by justice and being a serial contrarian (heeee), part of the reason Lee seizes on the law thing is as something to throw himself into after Kara’s death, to fill the hole, to find a reason for being. Because whatever they were to each other, they were integral to each other and now he’s lost it.
But also because he really is about rule of law and abstract principles. You know, in that this is very much like early S2 ep. In fact, except for certain continuity things, this totally could have been early S2 ep, in Lee’s idealism, in the grief running through the crew, in the almost-but-never-quite-there attempts at communication between Adama and Lee (‘is that an order?’ scene was awesome).
I liked the ‘lawyer’ who might have been very unlawyerly but quite riveting as a character and a good judge of character. I am amused that poor Helo now has to be a CAG (the boy has many hats) and loved that Athena herself seems to have forgotten her Cylonity.
But really, it was all about Lee. The whole ‘two weeks’ conversation with Adama (where his grief is like a constant wound, true), calling Racetrack ‘Starbuck’ at the briefing, desperate need to hang onto Lambkin’s words (especially the impossible love for a woman. Because if it’s true, Lambkin is a survivor of what Lee experienced.)
His rapport with Anders. I get a sense that they do have a connection now, because of Kara.
Btw, drunk Anders at the beginning? Did I mention breaking my heart?
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Date: 2007-03-14 09:54 am (UTC)Now, seriously, I think this episode was fantastic and I really hope the two-parter season finale is at least as good as this one!!!
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Date: 2007-03-15 04:23 am (UTC)That was so sad. Poor Anders. I loved that Lee tried to comfort him though - that was sweet. :)
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