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So... rewatching BSG season two highlights tonight ("Resistance", "The Farm", "Scar" - basically all the good stuff) and I've discovered that I like Anders. And I like Anders and Kara together. Kind of more than I like Lee and Kara (although Season Two Lee a la "Razor" and "Scar" is cool, which is the point I realized how much I hate Season Three Lee and the whiny, little self-absorbed baby he's become*), which was something of an "oh, damn, girl" moment as my attitude to BSG realigned itself along a new "RDM and writing staff are only half as dumb/annoying as I thought they were" axis**.
Of course, this may all be nothing more than a realization that Michael Trucco is tall and hot and Jamie Bamber is also hot but short and, dude, tall guys always win***. However, it does cause me to reevaluate some of the shit that went down in Season Three (aka the Many Deaths of Kara Thrace****) visa vi Kara's relationship with Lee and her marriage to Sam. I may have to turn in my shipper card*****. Then again, I've theoretically given up fandom, so that shouldn't be an issue.
One thing that hasn't changed, is my unconditional love for Kara Thrace (and for Katee Sackhoff's performance - maybe if the writer's strike goes on long enough the Emmy voters will actually watch something that airs on a channel other than the Big Four and HBO).
Anyway, deeply meta and writerly thoughts will have to wait for coffee. In the meantime, does anyone have a frakkin' clue what the hell the end of Razor meant?
*QED why I actually found myself liking S2 Lee (no, Crossroads alone cannot undo an entire season of sucky characterization).
**Putting Lee and Dee together is still a sucky plot idea and the actors just never sold me on it.
***Brother No. 1: 6'2", Dad: 6'4", Brother No. 2: 6'8" - it's terribly Freudian but life can be tough that way.
****It's a metaphor. Spoilerphobes can frak off.
*****If I take off the shipper goggles and consider the possibility that Kara is not in love with Lee Adama, suddenly their dynamic over three seasons snaps inot focus. She loves him deeply, values his friendship and is sexually attracted to him but whatever hearts and flowers and giddy romantic infatuation she may have felt for him is long in the past (or so deeply suppressed as to be irrelevant), which is why she falls for Sam. Whatever her relationship with Lee is, in Kara's mind in S2, romantic is not it.
Of course, this may all be nothing more than a realization that Michael Trucco is tall and hot and Jamie Bamber is also hot but short and, dude, tall guys always win***. However, it does cause me to reevaluate some of the shit that went down in Season Three (aka the Many Deaths of Kara Thrace****) visa vi Kara's relationship with Lee and her marriage to Sam. I may have to turn in my shipper card*****. Then again, I've theoretically given up fandom, so that shouldn't be an issue.
One thing that hasn't changed, is my unconditional love for Kara Thrace (and for Katee Sackhoff's performance - maybe if the writer's strike goes on long enough the Emmy voters will actually watch something that airs on a channel other than the Big Four and HBO).
Anyway, deeply meta and writerly thoughts will have to wait for coffee. In the meantime, does anyone have a frakkin' clue what the hell the end of Razor meant?
*QED why I actually found myself liking S2 Lee (no, Crossroads alone cannot undo an entire season of sucky characterization).
**Putting Lee and Dee together is still a sucky plot idea and the actors just never sold me on it.
***Brother No. 1: 6'2", Dad: 6'4", Brother No. 2: 6'8" - it's terribly Freudian but life can be tough that way.
****It's a metaphor. Spoilerphobes can frak off.
*****If I take off the shipper goggles and consider the possibility that Kara is not in love with Lee Adama, suddenly their dynamic over three seasons snaps inot focus. She loves him deeply, values his friendship and is sexually attracted to him but whatever hearts and flowers and giddy romantic infatuation she may have felt for him is long in the past (or so deeply suppressed as to be irrelevant), which is why she falls for Sam. Whatever her relationship with Lee is, in Kara's mind in S2, romantic is not it.
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