Ha ha! Once again I have wound up cross-posting ideas that are quite similar to yours on the question of Lee's attitude to Cylons. Jinx!
I agree that Lee's support of genocide was a believable flaw for the character in light of his "they're just machines" attitude (and actually you might not consider this a moral failing, though I do). But I do think he was uncharacteristically unwilling to hear out opposing points of view in that episode, which I believe was a deliberate choice on the writers' part.
I love him so much in "Scar," I can't even tell you :) I agree that the "dead guy" comment was both honest and unnecessarily hurtful, and I'm not sure I've ever loved Lee more than in his very next scene with Kara, when she can hardly look him in the face and is obviously expecting pay-back for her rejection and he just says, "Are you okay?" THIS is why I was rooting for them. They can be so generous with each other, it's really beautiful.
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Date: 2010-07-16 06:17 pm (UTC)I agree that Lee's support of genocide was a believable flaw for the character in light of his "they're just machines" attitude (and actually you might not consider this a moral failing, though I do). But I do think he was uncharacteristically unwilling to hear out opposing points of view in that episode, which I believe was a deliberate choice on the writers' part.
I love him so much in "Scar," I can't even tell you :) I agree that the "dead guy" comment was both honest and unnecessarily hurtful, and I'm not sure I've ever loved Lee more than in his very next scene with Kara, when she can hardly look him in the face and is obviously expecting pay-back for her rejection and he just says, "Are you okay?" THIS is why I was rooting for them. They can be so generous with each other, it's really beautiful.