I think I'd be more appreciative of the character moments if I weren't so paranoid that the show wasn't going to leave room for the answers. Because this is a show with a showrunner who frequently says things like, "well I don't think we need to know the reason for that," and frankly, a lot of the time I agree, but this is an instance when if I don't, it'll be...a real serious problem.
Like I said - I think I would have loved this episode (well, with a few WTFs!) if it weren't for its placement in the season. And if the finale delivers, I very much expect to look back on this and think it's great that the show spent so much of its final half season on quiet character moments like this.
AHAHAHAA, yes. It definitely eats babies. If the babies survive being born, then they're generally okay, except they're constantly kidnapped, made seriously ill and retconned to be far less awesome than they initially appeared to be.
Also word to Kara's response being to quietly walk back over to turn on Sam. I know that probably I'm supposed to think she was quietly overcome with emotion, but in my head she's thinking, "Dude, my IMAGINARY DAD was more supportive than you."
I think the thing about Laura is that I never felt she was overwhelmingly fuelled by a desire to be in politics either. It was that she stepped up and that she did that out of a fierce love for her people. While the timing of her political retirement and other developments was perhaps unfortunate in a meta sense, in terms of her character it was her apparent lack of care for the fate of the Fleet that jarred with me most awfully. It's less the suggestion that it wasn't a job she wanted and more the fact that a key part of her character, to me, was always that she took responsibility, always and constantly. It was what kept me with her through...banning abortion and stealing elections and stealing babies and executing people without a trial. I didn't mind her in the Unfinished Business flashbacks because she wasn't letting anyone down by wanting that for herself. Now...or certainly back during the immediate aftermath of Earth when she wasn't so sick as to be unfit for duty, she really is.
And to me, this episode kind of showed that, well, she DID have a home and family before, and that makes her comments to Bill last episode even more suspect.
But...enough moaning! I liked her here! Because she wasn't making decisions motivated by Bill, she was making decisions motivated by Laura Roslin! Yay! ;)
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Date: 2009-03-14 11:43 pm (UTC)Like I said - I think I would have loved this episode (well, with a few WTFs!) if it weren't for its placement in the season. And if the finale delivers, I very much expect to look back on this and think it's great that the show spent so much of its final half season on quiet character moments like this.
AHAHAHAA, yes. It definitely eats babies. If the babies survive being born, then they're generally okay, except they're constantly kidnapped, made seriously ill and retconned to be far less awesome than they initially appeared to be.
Also word to Kara's response being to quietly walk back over to turn on Sam. I know that probably I'm supposed to think she was quietly overcome with emotion, but in my head she's thinking, "Dude, my IMAGINARY DAD was more supportive than you."
I think the thing about Laura is that I never felt she was overwhelmingly fuelled by a desire to be in politics either. It was that she stepped up and that she did that out of a fierce love for her people. While the timing of her political retirement and other developments was perhaps unfortunate in a meta sense, in terms of her character it was her apparent lack of care for the fate of the Fleet that jarred with me most awfully. It's less the suggestion that it wasn't a job she wanted and more the fact that a key part of her character, to me, was always that she took responsibility, always and constantly. It was what kept me with her through...banning abortion and stealing elections and stealing babies and executing people without a trial. I didn't mind her in the Unfinished Business flashbacks because she wasn't letting anyone down by wanting that for herself. Now...or certainly back during the immediate aftermath of Earth when she wasn't so sick as to be unfit for duty, she really is.
And to me, this episode kind of showed that, well, she DID have a home and family before, and that makes her comments to Bill last episode even more suspect.
But...enough moaning! I liked her here! Because she wasn't making decisions motivated by Bill, she was making decisions motivated by Laura Roslin! Yay! ;)