Daily Pilots Post - Civvie Clothes FTW!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

So Sacrifice brings us some indelible moments in Pilots history (Did anyone say "Massive Angst"? Oh goody!) But it also gives us CIVILIAN WEAR! HURRAH.





   

So while Kara's getting busy "volunteering," Lee's getting busy.... with ELLEN TIGH? (Ok, I know it's not pilots but I thougth this little move with the hand over her mouth and then the shhh... was pretty damn hot. He could've tried that one on Kara...maybe it would've led to better things!)

 

Oh right and also did we mention the MASSIVE ANGST?

 

 

Katee Sackhoff does woobie face like nobody's business. **squishes Kara**
 
 

So...do you think Kara came back in the middle of night when no one was around and sat and watched him sleep? (I do. There may be fic later.)

And cosetteferaud had the excellent idea of creating some mini-playlists for rewatch episodes. What songs would you choose for Sacrifice?
Here are some to start: 

 

Comments

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Pilots!Songs for Sacrifice? **thinky** I'll get back if I come up with anything.

Pilots are so sad here. I remember the first time I watched this getting a horrible sinking feeling when Kara grabbed the hat and "volunteered". There was just no way it was going to turn out well.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

There was just no way it was going to turn out well.

And you know what? Needlessly so. If this episode had happened in Season One? Starbuck would totally have saved the frakking day.

(Of course then even more folks would've griped about her being a Mary Sue/too perfect, but still... The show too, a real turn toward the all-consuming nihilism post-Peggy arrival. Sigh.)

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

You're right. It does seem pretty contrived whichever way it falls.

But this falls right on the heels of Scar, which I tend to think of as the beginning of Kara's downward spiral (culminating in Maelstrom). It's like, once she decides she's "failed" to "save" Sam, she's never able to stop doubting herself, and that lack of confidence plays into her new inability to save herself. The few bright moments she has manage to do nothing but terrify her and send her running in the opposite direction.

eta: Uh, I guess I have a lot of negative feelings about this part of the series. Sorry. Ultimately, though, I agree that it didn't have to be this way. At this point, it could still have been redeemed pretty easily.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

But that's the thing, they just suddenly decided after the res ship arc in which Kara comes out rather triumphant, not having to kill Cain and being promoted to Captain and making that eulogy where she gets to take the moral high ground (I guess), then suddenly came this weird string of eps where Lee is suicidal and Kara is self-doubting and it all goes downhill from there.

I know the show framed it as her being completely distracted by not being able to get back to save Sam and these Capricans but...that's always felt pretty contrived for me too. Not that Kara wouldn't care at all but that 1) she'd care so much about this one-night stand she'd had (admittedly at a vulnerable time in her life) that it incapacitates her professionally; and b) that she also wouldn't be able to realize the futility of this kind of mission. I mean the latter hinges on the former. Yes, she hates the farms but she's not going back to save every person in every farm ever, she's arguing to go back to save this small group of resistance fighters, and that has to be about Sam...which is something that just doesn't make sense to me based on the previous characterization of Kara--as being such a guarded soul.

It's all a falling string of dominoes I guess. But it's sort of puzzling to me that they took it in this direction at all.