no_takebacks | Jan. 18th, 2011

Hi everyone!

Well, an overwhelming (!!!) majority of you voted for the deep, dark & dreary post, so here goes!

A couple of weeks ago, there was a post on this comm dissecting Kara Thrace’s character. Some of us were enraged and spoke up, some quietly seethed and hey, some just missed the whole thing. The post is now locked - for good reason. However, I’ve been thinking about it a lot and thought I’d throw this out for discussion.

So who are Kara Thrace and Leland J. Adama and how do you see them as character archetypes? Based on what we know from canon, including all the flimsy and scattered back stories, what/who do Kara & Lee represent to you?

I had a bunch of specific questions to throw out there for you to consider, but I think this will be more organic if I just let everyone talk about whatever they wanted to without any constraints and/or limitations.

If things start to get too gloomy, I have tons of pie (& booze) for everyone.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE There are those of us who relate to Kara and/or Lee for very personal reasons. I just want to remind you that this is a public community and there are many lurkers around! If you don’t want to discuss your personal stuff in this post, but feel it’s necessary to getting your point across, by all means, post your response on your own LJ, maybe referencing that it’s in response to today’s topic.

ALSO, the 5+1 post from yesterday is still up and running! There are some pretty awesome prompts there, so feel free to drop by, write for any of them or hey … write something else!