DPP: Rules

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Every once in a while, usually sooner than later we end up speaking about obeying/stretching/breaking the rules.

Usually we tend to see Lee as going by the book and Kara being the one to break all the rules.

So, today's question fro the shipper nation is: what do you think? is it true? is it false? or is it just blown out of proportion?

Comments

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I think that it has been in some ways overstated that she is the ruler break while he toes the line. Obviously he ends up breaking a good many rules over the course of the series and she, as a military officer, ends up following plenty of service rules.

I think that it's so often simplified this way because her way of breaking rules is in a brash and in-your-face way and comes off in a very Starbuck, 'break rules just because it feels good to break things' ragey kind of way. I think her willingness to break rules that don't suit her comes more from a belief that she herself is not required or adhere to an outwardly established set of rules. So while we may see her breaking their societal rules, she's doing it to stay true to her internal ones (which are probably less rigid and more gray than those of the law). Although I do think her past does also play into that attitude of 'the world has let me down so I don't answer to its rules'. However, the military, in a way, saved her. Make her someone. Gave her a family. And therefore she does believe in its rules and laws and does follow them to the best of her, somewhat unwieldy, nature.

Lee tends more to believe in systems of governance and therefore wants them to work. However, as his conscience guides him, he will break a rule that his logic and heart lead his to believe is incorrect or likely to cause an undue amount of harm to humanity at large. Which is of course why we see him move into his law and political forays later in the series where he feels like it is his duty to set these fragile system right.

So viewers see her rule-breaking as blatant disregard, where we see his as strict moral stances against tyranny or something all lofty and impressive like that. Anyways, that got rambley. I was probably going somewhere with all that, but I lost it. My bad.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

However, as his conscience guides him, he will break a rule that his logic and heart lead his to believe is incorrect or likely to cause an undue amount of harm to humanity at large. Which is of course why we see him move into his law and political forays later in the series where he feels like it is his duty to set these fragile system right.

yes, i tend to agree with what you are saying here.

personally i tend to see him more like a guy that if he really-really doesn't like some rules because they don't match what he things it's right he goes and tries to change them. idk if i make any sense but for me Lee is more like a guy that as long as they are rules he tries to obey them but if they are out of his comfort zone he's not break them but change them.