Kara Thrace and her frakking destiny.
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no_takebacksHelo shippers,
I almost thought there would be no DPP today. Better late than never, right? So here we go...
I have complained a lot about Kara`s death and how mystical the whole show became in the end (and not in a good way). More than the poof, more than the table episode, more than the hooker or anything else, this is what I can`t come to terms with. And that leads to my questions for you today.
What do you think of Kara`s so called destiny?
Despite all her loud kickass persona, was she ever in charge of her life or was she just a puppet in those gods`s uninspired games and all the suffering she had to endure in her childhood and adult relationships just designed to prepare her to sacrifice herself for humanity (or whatever)?
Was there ever a moment when she could have (and perhaps should have) gone a different way?
Was there anything Lee could have done to push her to choose a different path?
In short, were they really doomed from the start or was it something they chose and therefore they are the only ones to blame for their misery and not the gods or destiny?
I almost thought there would be no DPP today. Better late than never, right? So here we go...
I have complained a lot about Kara`s death and how mystical the whole show became in the end (and not in a good way). More than the poof, more than the table episode, more than the hooker or anything else, this is what I can`t come to terms with. And that leads to my questions for you today.
What do you think of Kara`s so called destiny?
Despite all her loud kickass persona, was she ever in charge of her life or was she just a puppet in those gods`s uninspired games and all the suffering she had to endure in her childhood and adult relationships just designed to prepare her to sacrifice herself for humanity (or whatever)?
Was there ever a moment when she could have (and perhaps should have) gone a different way?
Was there anything Lee could have done to push her to choose a different path?
In short, were they really doomed from the start or was it something they chose and therefore they are the only ones to blame for their misery and not the gods or destiny?
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Date: 2012-01-13 11:05 pm (UTC)I hate the idea that Kara was just a puppet because it makes her not real, ever in the story to me, and Kara was very real and flawed and intriguing. I don't like the idea that her life leading up to was (retconned) leading up to her death.
Although oddly, I've always seen her decision to fly into the storm as the choice to commit suicide. I just don't like it. So, yeah, I believe she could have made another choice. She could have not flown into the maelstrom. Lee could have grounded her. She didn't have to die.
Or she could have flown into the storm and not come back as ghost or whatever. The BSG universe already had options for her to come back as a head!character or even a cylon instead of making her into the world's slowest deus ex machina.*
*This is part of a larger tangentially related rant about universe building and following the rules of said universes.