BSG 3x17 Maelstrom

[exsequar]

Watching this week's BSG finally! I know something INSANE happened, so I'm kinda nervous. Making some notes halfway through so it doesn't get lost in the inevitable OMGWTF, hee.


EEEEEEE KARA AND LEEEEE! They are back where they started, just like Kara said, and THAT'S HOW I LOVE THEM! They're best friends, bantering, looking out for each other. The line that made me flail the most (even though there have been many): "I'll fly your wing." In that whole scene in the hanger, Lee's face is just so peaceful and full of love and concern for his best friend. He will always always love Starbuck, and he has such complete faith in her (which might be a mistake, right now, but it's so important because SOMEONE needs to have confidence in her, and right now that's not even herself) and it just warms the cockles of my heart. I hoped for a while there that they'd actually, yaknow, stick, but now that that whole mess is over I love where they're at. It makes me SO HAPPY.

And dude. The oracle is SHERRI from Supernatural! How funny. I didn't think she was very good for the role, but whatever. Fandom crossover ftw! \o/

I also loved Kara's scene with Adama, when she gave him the figure of Aurora. Seeing the love there was also lovely, and it makes me happy to see Kara retaking her place as honorary Adama child. Those two men are the only people she's got (well, Sam now, but I'm still not really feeling him, unfortunately) and I'm so glad to see her getting that support system back.

Helo as Kara's confidante is great too! Basically, I love Kara, I'm loving her interactions with everyone else, and I'm so worried because obviously the WTF event is going to be centered around her and Leoben and all that whatnot and I don't want all this beautiful character stuff to just vanish suddenly.

I'm really loving this episode so far. And continuing!

And now I've finished.

KARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am never watching this show again.

ETA: Okay fine, I'll watch it next week. But that's because grief is so fascinating to me as a process for characters. Also, I need to see Lee and Bill grieve for Kara - maybe it will give me some closure too. But I don't know that I'll ever really enjoy the show again. This show is like a battering ram, emotionally, and Kara was what kept it bearable. Even when she was going through hell, I had so much empathy for her, and it was just a sense of connection. Now that's going to be completely gone, and to be honest? I don't care what happens to the rest of them. I kind of hope Lee will be basically ruined, at least for a time, because that is the only worthy testament to her memory. I want to see Lee put her picture up on the wall... then I'm done.

Comments

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I completely flipped out (http://bop-radar.livejournal.com/87933.html) on first watching. Now I've had time to process and write about it, I feel a bit better, but still grief-stricken.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Just read your post - I was unspoiled too, obviously! I'm really not in the BSG fanodom at all, so. I'm glad, because knowing would have ruined the entire episode, and there was SO MUCH good stuff there! But now knowing it was just giving Starbuck her Last Moments with the people she loves... that breaks my heart.

You mentioned How This Will Affect Lee - I for one hope it breaks him. I really, REALLY hope they do not just have a scene of him putting his picture next to Kat's, perhaps crying, and then going back to normal. Because he WON'T be normal after this. Frak Dee, Kara is the PERSON Lee loves. He loves her on a deep and fundamental level. And without her, I'm not sure how he can function. Like - at all. I hope he becomes dark and jagged and scary, like Dean in the beginning of S2 Supernatural. Because that would be fascinating and the only reason I would continue to watch after this.

Oh, Kara :(

[bop-radar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand--I too think that Lee will never be the same after Kara's death. I don't know if you read my extended response (it's long! I wouldn't expect anyone to!), but I said that Kara's death will forever shape the way he remembers her (http://bop-radar.livejournal.com/88570.html) and then thinking further about it, I really feel that his grief is not going to be as simple as formally grieving (photo on wall stuff) and then getting back to 'normal' (http://bop-radar.livejournal.com/89137.html). I'm not sure he'll go off the rails though (though I can understand you wanting that): I think he's more likely to drive himself furiously in some new direction. Partly, I say this because we've already seen him lose it--in depression, in overeating, in drinking. It makes more sense to me that now he'll be determined to fight that, to live for Kara's sake and for his own. But I also think the strain of that will show and he will 'lose it' in some way down the track... I just don't think it's going to be soon or easy or a 'typical' grief reaction. And I think his destiny is still linked to hers--I think everything will be shaped by Kara's death. I just don't know how yet. :-(

[shotofjack.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I've had time to process it and I don't think she is really gone. I'm sure we will see her again - remember, she has some BIG part in all of this.

And if she is really done, can I borrow her husband?

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we will see her again too. But what worries me is the how. The Kara I know and love got blown up into bitty pieces - that's gotta change a girl, you know? She's never just going to be Starbuck the Hotshot Pilot to Lee's CAG ever again. And I miss that. I think I need to go rewatch season 1.

[flamingkitten.livejournal.com]

i really didn't feel like she was dead even when she died. i think they're definitely bringing her back somehow, especially since she has this huge destiny to fulfill.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

It does feel incredibly unfinished, which is simultaneously hopeful and depressing. Because she got BLOWN UP! So how are they going to conceivably bring her back? I mean, I know this is BSG, craaaazy shit can happen, but still. I feel like the only possibility is that she's a cylon, and... no. I couldn't handle that for my Starbuck.

*sniffles* I am seriously in mourning. I cried when I was falling asleep last night :(