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[mserrada.livejournal.com]

Wished they'd kept Cain around longer. Really would have liked more time with them exploring a Cain/Kara dynamic and also more of the Captain Thrace/Lieutenant Adama one at work, too.

I've often wondered how much was calculated in Cain's actions with Kara. If she was mostly reacting to the potential she saw in a junior officer that she believed she could control. Or if she was plotting and had a firm plan to manipulate Kara?

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think it was a little bit of both, you know? Get Kara out from under Adama's wing and win her over, in addition to recognising that the crazy pilot was a genius and it's good to have her on side. And demoting Lee at the same time did look like an attempt to drive a rift between them.

Besides, I might be alone in speculating on this but Cain and Roslin are more or less the only female authority figures Kara is ever answerable to, and she seemed a little cagey around both when they first interacted, and I always wondered whether that was a result of her own abuse at the hands of her mother - especially after they both manipulated her early in the relationship to get what they wanted (Roslin with the Arrow of Apollo, Cain convincing Kara that what she did was a matter of survival and that she had to do those horrible things because there was no other way).

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I'd have loved to see how a Kara arc might have played out if Cain hadn't been offed so soon.

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

And on this scene itself, love it. One of my favorites--watching the interactions, knowing what Kara has been asked to do and how the dialogue takes on layers based on that. So good.