I think you have made fall in love with Lee all over again. I really miss him. *sighs*
He has always been my favorite character in BSG. I agree with you 110% here. In fact, you could have read my mind when you wrote this - only you expressed it so much better than I ever could...
I think the real important thing is that Lee may have been the "moral center of the show, the conscience if you will", as Dramaturgca quoted, but that doesn't mean he was either perfect nor radically judgemental. He truly tried to be fair and do what is right , and that fundamental part of his personality did not chance throughout the whole series (that is something the writers were pretty consistent about). There were of course moments when he failed to do both but that only showed he was human. You really nailed it, in my opinion, when you pointed out those were times when he was moved by strong emotions.
As any human being, he had his onw emotional burdens and scars and those affected his actions to a degree. His compassionate nature always prevailed in the end, though. That is what happened in Scar, for instance. After the failed attempt at sex with Kara, they exchanged harsh words. He was clearly hurt by her "There is nothing here" and his "dead guys" line, though true to an extent, was unnecessarily hurtful. We might expect him to be awful to Kara afterwards, but that didn't happen . Instead, he supported her at the end of the episode. Lovely scene, by the way.
I never thought his suggestion of exterminating the cylons by using biological warfare was out of character or a sign that his moral lines became more flexible over the course of the show. First, because of his attitude towards cylons. He simply didn't see them as life forms but as machines. Therefore, it wouldn't be really genocide. Second, because he had put pragmatism over idealism early on in the series when he accepted the order to shoot down the Olympic Carrier. The needs of the many prevail over the needs of the few. And if those few were not even people to begin with... (and even then, that didn't mean the decision was lightly taken, he struggled with it till the end, but sometimes, you just have to do what you have to do).
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Date: 2010-07-16 05:45 pm (UTC)I think you have made fall in love with Lee all over again. I really miss him. *sighs*
He has always been my favorite character in BSG. I agree with you 110% here. In fact, you could have read my mind when you wrote this - only you expressed it so much better than I ever could...
I think the real important thing is that Lee may have been the "moral center of the show, the conscience if you will", as Dramaturgca quoted, but that doesn't mean he was either perfect nor radically judgemental. He truly tried to be fair and do what is right , and that fundamental part of his personality did not chance throughout the whole series (that is something the writers were pretty consistent about). There were of course moments when he failed to do both but that only showed he was human. You really nailed it, in my opinion, when you pointed out those were times when he was moved by strong emotions.
As any human being, he had his onw emotional burdens and scars and those affected his actions to a degree. His compassionate nature always prevailed in the end, though. That is what happened in Scar, for instance. After the failed attempt at sex with Kara, they exchanged harsh words. He was clearly hurt by her "There is nothing here" and his "dead guys" line, though true to an extent, was unnecessarily hurtful. We might expect him to be awful to Kara afterwards, but that didn't happen . Instead, he supported her at the end of the episode. Lovely scene, by the way.
I never thought his suggestion of exterminating the cylons by using biological warfare was out of character or a sign that his moral lines became more flexible over the course of the show. First, because of his attitude towards cylons. He simply didn't see them as life forms but as machines. Therefore, it wouldn't be really genocide. Second, because he had put pragmatism over idealism early on in the series when he accepted the order to shoot down the Olympic Carrier. The needs of the many prevail over the needs of the few. And if those few were not even people to begin with... (and even then, that didn't mean the decision was lightly taken, he struggled with it till the end, but sometimes, you just have to do what you have to do).