BSG 2.02 Valley of Darkness (spoilers)

[morwen_peredhil]

Lots of other stuff happened, but right now I want to talk about Lee and Kara.


Lee

When he was protecting the nuggets and making his stand at the bottom of the ladder before the marines showed up, I was asquee with glee. So brave. So manly. So bloody.

I am such a girl.

Lee is just so damn competent in these crisis situations. I don't agree that he's not fit to wear the uniform. It's the uniform that doesn't "fit" him. He would be more temperamentally suited to life as, say, a civil rights lawyer like his grandfather or perhaps as an unusually incorruptible elected official, but he is damn good at the military thing. He doesn't have the luxury of just giving it up. Even holding a gun to the XO's head won't do it. Feeling he isn't cut out for it won't do it.

He seems awfully good for someone who isn't cut out for it, though. (Taking out that last Cylon as it leaped for them? Brilliant, and very brave.) I suspect that he's overanalyzing and being too hard on himself. In the thick of action, I doubt very many people truly feel cut out for it, but they do what they must despite their fear so that they and their comrades will survive. And that is enough. However, Kara and Adama might be exceptions, which would really twist the knife.

Lee has to do his duty as he sees it, and that's pretty much all he has going for him right now, with Kara gone (perhaps forever, as far as he knows) and his father at death's door. I'm feeling terribly sorry for him.


Kara

She paints. A clumsy attempt to show us that she has, like, layers? I already knew she had layers. I was more interested by the first reference to her piano-playing father. The jacket she put on was her father's, I assume.

"Everyone I know is fighting to get back what they had. I'm fighting because I don't know how to do anything else."

Kara, unlike Lee, is a warrior by nature. This is something of which she can be proud, but she can be so much more. (Yes, yes, I stole that from Farscape. Just don't make Kara have babies.)

At least she has replenished her cigar supply, and that is one badass rig she's driving. Heh. I love her.

Comments

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

I actually kind of liked the painting--more for the payoff about stuff people had lost. It was another reminder that there was a Kara pre-Galactica and even pre-Zak. And I kind of liked the idea that she's the only person left who gets to go back to her actual home...and there's not much there to take, really. Everyone would probably be really envious at the idea, but not so much the practice, you know?

I tried to feel sorry for Lee, but I was overcome with loving new edgy Lee, as I'm spamming all over my flist. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this idea of "fit for the uniform"; after all, last week we learned that Tigh wasn't (no surprise)--but Adama wasn't, either. Wonder if Lee really knows about that past?

[song-ofdevotion.livejournal.com]

To me, Kara doesn't seem like the type to paint. I mean she seems so energetic and like she wouldn't be able to sit still for long enough to paint something, you know?

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but there weren't still lives, or anything. I liked the modern, frenetic vibe from it.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Lee has to do his duty as he sees it, and that's pretty much all he has going for him right now, with Kara gone (perhaps forever, as far as he knows) and his father at death's door. I'm feeling terribly sorry for him.

Yes, and he is stuck in it until he dies.

Re: Kara's car. I keep wondering, won't Cylons notice a car driving around?

[morwen_peredhil]

When they do, better to be in Humvee than in something smaller. Kara is a born risk-taker and she's thisclose to snapping, so maybe she just doesn't care at the moment.