One thing I will say, though, is that I wish they'd left out, "Gods, you're just like my father!" because it hangs too much of a lantern on the absurdity of her not recognising him.
This line is emblematic of my trouble with this episode maybe. It all felt entirely surface and unsubtle to me. I didn't see a lot of processing or emotional depth or reaction. This is the problem I've been having for the past three episodes. Things happen and people emote, but it doesn't feel like it really changes or touches them deeply the way such moments once did on this show.
I mean, at this point, Dreilide = Daniel is just so blindingly obvious I'm worried that it's too obvious and they'll decide to leave it "open to interpretation" forever. I don't know. Come up with some cylons-cloned-you-from-your-ovary story to explain Starbuck's resurrection and never address her Father ever again, just have it as some weird personal-peace-making character interlude and not really address the fact that her dad taught her magical music.
See I think that's it for Starbuck's "identity." I don't think they're ever going to explain how she came back. I really thought this was the episode where they were going to do that and there were no answers at all on that front. If they expect us to connect the dots from "she's half cylon because Drielide might be Daniel" to "obviously because she's half-cylon there's some magical resurrection pod/cloned bodies waiting for her somewhere...well, I can't get on board that.
I felt so mad/sad about this episode because I didn't see any revelations or peace in it for Kara. Yes, she got to have a head!convo with Dad again, but isn't it just like the convo she had with Mom in Maelstrom? It didn't really exist, so she didn't resolve anything!
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Date: 2009-03-01 03:34 pm (UTC)This line is emblematic of my trouble with this episode maybe. It all felt entirely surface and unsubtle to me. I didn't see a lot of processing or emotional depth or reaction. This is the problem I've been having for the past three episodes. Things happen and people emote, but it doesn't feel like it really changes or touches them deeply the way such moments once did on this show.
I mean, at this point, Dreilide = Daniel is just so blindingly obvious I'm worried that it's too obvious and they'll decide to leave it "open to interpretation" forever. I don't know. Come up with some cylons-cloned-you-from-your-ovary story to explain Starbuck's resurrection and never address her Father ever again, just have it as some weird personal-peace-making character interlude and not really address the fact that her dad taught her magical music.
See I think that's it for Starbuck's "identity." I don't think they're ever going to explain how she came back. I really thought this was the episode where they were going to do that and there were no answers at all on that front. If they expect us to connect the dots from "she's half cylon because Drielide might be Daniel" to "obviously because she's half-cylon there's some magical resurrection pod/cloned bodies waiting for her somewhere...well, I can't get on board that.
I felt so mad/sad about this episode because I didn't see any revelations or peace in it for Kara. Yes, she got to have a head!convo with Dad again, but isn't it just like the convo she had with Mom in Maelstrom? It didn't really exist, so she didn't resolve anything!