She's still the same impulsive girl with a one-track mind on doing what she wants to do, consequences be damned. Which can be a good thing, every once in a while, but it's true that she tends to disregard how much she can hurt other people.
Because there's no need, she's the intrinsic hero. Which is another problem I have with the character. It constantly feel like the writers are winking at us, telling us, "See, we get it. Heroes can be flawed. So, we'll give you Kara, who is frakked up, emotionally unstable, but doesn't she kick ass." It's heavy handed... I prefer Lee, because he can be pissy and self-righteous and make something incredibly brave at the same time.
That didn't make much sense to me: how hard could it be to stay with a man who openly declared his love?
My theory is that she loves Lee, and she got scared of screwing up and breaking whatever they had (or scared that he would end up believing she wasn't good enough for him), so she decided not to give their couple a chance, and broke things off before it could start. Did she have to marry Sam to drive her point home? No, but I can see her fearing that Lee wouldn't let her go without a fight, so she went with the only thing she could think of that would make him hate her. Not that what she did was forgiveable, but I can kind of understand it...
Is Lee only good enough to be her *illicit* lover, but not her legitimate one-and-only?! What drove her decisions? Well, all she said was that marriage was sacred (since she believes in the gods, taking a vow before them counts a lot). But then, why feel free to cheat on her husband?
Self-aware as in having the concept of "me"? Like "Why should I be doing such & such?" Yes. Once you become aware that there's you and others, and there are things you shouldn't do if you don't want to hurt others, and you're aware that death would mean you wouldn't exist anymore, the lines would tend to blur. But again, we've seen no indication that the Centurions were anything but machines, with very little thought-processes.
Do the Cylons have a homeworld? I think it was said in the mini that after the first war, they retreated to a planet outside Colonial space, and were never seen since then. And in Hero, Bill said that he lead a mission to the border of Cylon space. What I do wonder is if they colonized other planets on "their" side of space, though, or if they just remained on one planet until they were ready to attack the Colonies.
I wondered about that. I thought the reason the first and second cylon wars broke out, like any wars, was to fight for land and resources. The religion stuff was only used to incite those to fight the war. I thought the cylons wanted to take over the twelve planets so that they *can* have a homeworld... Either the show was vague on the subject, or I haven't been paying attention (which is probable, since I tend not to listen too closely to the Cylons). But I got the feeling that the first war happened because the Cylons wanted to be 'free' and escape the Colonies. The religion happened between the first and second wars, and the second war happened because the Cylons had decided that the humans didn't deserve to live (but then, why have farms and try to understand how humans reproduce?) But I might be wrong.
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Which can be a good thing, every once in a while, but it's true that she tends to disregard how much she can hurt other people.
Because there's no need, she's the intrinsic hero.
Which is another problem I have with the character. It constantly feel like the writers are winking at us, telling us, "See, we get it. Heroes can be flawed. So, we'll give you Kara, who is frakked up, emotionally unstable, but doesn't she kick ass."
It's heavy handed... I prefer Lee, because he can be pissy and self-righteous and make something incredibly brave at the same time.
That didn't make much sense to me: how hard could it be to stay with a man who openly declared his love?
My theory is that she loves Lee, and she got scared of screwing up and breaking whatever they had (or scared that he would end up believing she wasn't good enough for him), so she decided not to give their couple a chance, and broke things off before it could start.
Did she have to marry Sam to drive her point home? No, but I can see her fearing that Lee wouldn't let her go without a fight, so she went with the only thing she could think of that would make him hate her.
Not that what she did was forgiveable, but I can kind of understand it...
Is Lee only good enough to be her *illicit* lover, but not her legitimate one-and-only?! What drove her decisions?
Well, all she said was that marriage was sacred (since she believes in the gods, taking a vow before them counts a lot). But then, why feel free to cheat on her husband?
Self-aware as in having the concept of "me"? Like "Why should I be doing such & such?"
Yes. Once you become aware that there's you and others, and there are things you shouldn't do if you don't want to hurt others, and you're aware that death would mean you wouldn't exist anymore, the lines would tend to blur. But again, we've seen no indication that the Centurions were anything but machines, with very little thought-processes.
Do the Cylons have a homeworld?
I think it was said in the mini that after the first war, they retreated to a planet outside Colonial space, and were never seen since then.
And in Hero, Bill said that he lead a mission to the border of Cylon space.
What I do wonder is if they colonized other planets on "their" side of space, though, or if they just remained on one planet until they were ready to attack the Colonies.
I wondered about that. I thought the reason the first and second cylon wars broke out, like any wars, was to fight for land and resources. The religion stuff was only used to incite those to fight the war. I thought the cylons wanted to take over the twelve planets so that they *can* have a homeworld...
Either the show was vague on the subject, or I haven't been paying attention (which is probable, since I tend not to listen too closely to the Cylons).
But I got the feeling that the first war happened because the Cylons wanted to be 'free' and escape the Colonies. The religion happened between the first and second wars, and the second war happened because the Cylons had decided that the humans didn't deserve to live (but then, why have farms and try to understand how humans reproduce?)
But I might be wrong.
:)