Well I think there is a lot more Islanded stuff except that for some reason we didn't get the extended edition :( So you may yet get your wish there.
I don't really see Lee and Adama as alike though. I know that the show tried to insinuate that similarity but I always felt it was far too forced the same way I always felt the show was trying to suggest that I should find Adama heroic instead of the idiotic ass I eventually decided that he was.
They are certainly both stubborn, but I think it's far more telling to look at what they are stubborn in service to. Adama is entirely self-centred in his value-sets, ideas of loyalty, and is stubborn when he doesn't get his way.
Lee is stubborn when he genuinely believes that there is a moral stand he needs to make. And it's rarely personal.
While yes, Lee can be a little petty and self-centred when he's hurting, I generally feel that he has a more...sane grasp of when someone's hurt him and when someone simply disagrees with him than Adama who takes everything personally. Lee has really only been self-centredly horribly about two people - Adama and Kara - both of whom he has very complicated familial relationships with and neither of whom have a great track record with regards to how they treat him either.
But then, I've never really seen Lee as a whiny Luke Skywalker type so I'm kind of in a fandom minority. :p (Not saying you do, just...it's a popular view!)
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Date: 2009-06-02 04:08 pm (UTC)I don't really see Lee and Adama as alike though. I know that the show tried to insinuate that similarity but I always felt it was far too forced the same way I always felt the show was trying to suggest that I should find Adama heroic instead of the idiotic ass I eventually decided that he was.
They are certainly both stubborn, but I think it's far more telling to look at what they are stubborn in service to. Adama is entirely self-centred in his value-sets, ideas of loyalty, and is stubborn when he doesn't get his way.
Lee is stubborn when he genuinely believes that there is a moral stand he needs to make. And it's rarely personal.
While yes, Lee can be a little petty and self-centred when he's hurting, I generally feel that he has a more...sane grasp of when someone's hurt him and when someone simply disagrees with him than Adama who takes everything personally. Lee has really only been self-centredly horribly about two people - Adama and Kara - both of whom he has very complicated familial relationships with and neither of whom have a great track record with regards to how they treat him either.
But then, I've never really seen Lee as a whiny Luke Skywalker type so I'm kind of in a fandom minority. :p (Not saying you do, just...it's a popular view!)