Carolyn Hill
Brown Rat, wandering & wondering
Now I understand why Kara has been acting so cruddy to Lee and her husband. Mothers sure can mess a kid up. And imprisonment by Leoben didn't help, pushing old buttons.
The closing scene, where we see Adama's reaction to Kara's apparent death, is powerful: he's lost not just an officer (as with Cat), but someone he thinks of as a daughter--yet another of his children dead.
I'm mulling over the myth threads in the episode, ending up with questions:
1. Kara says that the entity in her vision (the one in which she visits her dying mother) isn't Leoben, so who is it? One of the gods? One of the final five Cylons, who seem to exist in the space between death and life?
2. In going into the space between life and death (taking that step she's always run from before in her fear of death), Kara seems to be fulfilling part of her preordained destiny. If she returns from death, will she have new power--or, at least, greater wisdom, and be less screwed up? Is there a parallel between her journey into death and the folkloric journey that shamans and other heroes take to the underworld, from which they return with greater power?
The closing scene, where we see Adama's reaction to Kara's apparent death, is powerful: he's lost not just an officer (as with Cat), but someone he thinks of as a daughter--yet another of his children dead.
I'm mulling over the myth threads in the episode, ending up with questions:
1. Kara says that the entity in her vision (the one in which she visits her dying mother) isn't Leoben, so who is it? One of the gods? One of the final five Cylons, who seem to exist in the space between death and life?
2. In going into the space between life and death (taking that step she's always run from before in her fear of death), Kara seems to be fulfilling part of her preordained destiny. If she returns from death, will she have new power--or, at least, greater wisdom, and be less screwed up? Is there a parallel between her journey into death and the folkloric journey that shamans and other heroes take to the underworld, from which they return with greater power?