Lovely post, Cosette. I didn't watch. However. . .
I didn't have a favorite in the mini. I liked them both although I thought that, initially, Lee was a more in depth character (before Kara prayed). Kara was presented as the very stereotypical hero. She was not only better then everyone at everything, but knew she was better then everyone at everything. She had the indulgence of the CO, and therefore knew that she would face no real consequences for assaulting the XO. She was serving in a nothing command that was not built for defending the fleet and leaned heavily on personal loyalty and signs of devotion to the CO as opposed to mission readiness and loyalty to country. Really fun and ballsy and just joyfully tough. I was so drawn to her. But still pretty typical. She reminded me of Maverick in Top Gun.
Lee though - he was interesting. He started questioning the way business was done right off the bat with the antiquated landing practices. He wouldn't allow a chief petty officer to suck up to him. He was obviously a rising star of the fleet, but resentfuly so. He was bitter and dissmissive toward his father, and really wanted to talk to Kara but wasn't sure how. He accepted, after verifying that Roslin was competant, civilian authority over the military, saved the entire remaining fleet when Roslin was being stubborn, not with blazing guns or wresting control from the president, but by finding another way, using out of the box quick thinking to make the cylons think they're gone. He articulated to Roslin what no one else dared to - that they had to leave the other people behind. I was fascinated by him - now this I hadn't seen before.
But then Kara prayed. The faith and vulnerability behind the brash swagger, and she unfolded that picture and it was amazing. It hadn't just been Kara and Zak - It has been Kara and Zak and Lee. And of all the people she thought were dead - her squadmates and friends - the whole damn human race - she singled out one person and one person alone to specify - and that was Lee. So significant and so very sad to think that someone that important to her was suddenly gone. In that moment you could see that there were very few people who actually knew Kara Thrace and she believed she had just lost one of them.
The spark that made me think of Kara as being more than the stereotypical action hero was only in two more scenes - when she saw Lee again and when she saved him. It was such a cool thing to see the vulnerability and layers of her, but they only showed when she was with Lee - when he came back from the dead and when she wouldn't lose him again. There was more to Kara Thrace then Maverick. And you saw a softness in Lee when he was with her as well. For better or worse was the phrase that came to mind. These two are stuck with each other for better or worse.
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Date: 2009-07-04 03:37 pm (UTC)I didn't have a favorite in the mini. I liked them both although I thought that, initially, Lee was a more in depth character (before Kara prayed). Kara was presented as the very stereotypical hero. She was not only better then everyone at everything, but knew she was better then everyone at everything. She had the indulgence of the CO, and therefore knew that she would face no real consequences for assaulting the XO. She was serving in a nothing command that was not built for defending the fleet and leaned heavily on personal loyalty and signs of devotion to the CO as opposed to mission readiness and loyalty to country. Really fun and ballsy and just joyfully tough. I was so drawn to her. But still pretty typical. She reminded me of Maverick in Top Gun.
Lee though - he was interesting. He started questioning the way business was done right off the bat with the antiquated landing practices. He wouldn't allow a chief petty officer to suck up to him. He was obviously a rising star of the fleet, but resentfuly so. He was bitter and dissmissive toward his father, and really wanted to talk to Kara but wasn't sure how. He accepted, after verifying that Roslin was competant, civilian authority over the military, saved the entire remaining fleet when Roslin was being stubborn, not with blazing guns or wresting control from the president, but by finding another way, using out of the box quick thinking to make the cylons think they're gone. He articulated to Roslin what no one else dared to - that they had to leave the other people behind. I was fascinated by him - now this I hadn't seen before.
But then Kara prayed. The faith and vulnerability behind the brash swagger, and she unfolded that picture and it was amazing. It hadn't just been Kara and Zak - It has been Kara and Zak and Lee. And of all the people she thought were dead - her squadmates and friends - the whole damn human race - she singled out one person and one person alone to specify - and that was Lee. So significant and so very sad to think that someone that important to her was suddenly gone. In that moment you could see that there were very few people who actually knew Kara Thrace and she believed she had just lost one of them.
The spark that made me think of Kara as being more than the stereotypical action hero was only in two more scenes - when she saw Lee again and when she saved him. It was such a cool thing to see the vulnerability and layers of her, but they only showed when she was with Lee - when he came back from the dead and when she wouldn't lose him again. There was more to Kara Thrace then Maverick. And you saw a softness in Lee when he was with her as well. For better or worse was the phrase that came to mind. These two are stuck with each other for better or worse.