Am I the only one who was more psyched out for Maelstrom than I was Daybreak? I went out that afternoon and bought myself a stash of my favorite chocolate to mend my broken heart should it become necessary. Not to mention a bottle of wine. XD I think I may have watched the entire episode from a sitting fetal position. It was bad! And then it was good, because to me that episode, with all its "see what lies in the spaces between," not to mention the utter lack of destiny fulfillment, essentially promised that her death was ~not what it appeared and she would be back.
I don't consider it suicide for the most part. The major distinction I see is that Kara never committed the "sin of despair" that according to some traditions is what makes suicide so terrible. Although I think the story would have been better served had the writers not attempted to snow us into thinking they weren't bringing her back, it was clear that she knew she was dying for a greater purpose and that this wasn't the end for her.
I don't think she was crazy (if she had been, she wouldn't have come back and the whole thing would have played very differently) and in my preferred interpretation, the scene with her mother was actually real and not a hallucination. (If the head-characters/angels have the ability to transport her to Earth thousands of years in the past, I assume they can take her back several years on Caprica.) Much as her mother did horrible things and screwed her up emotionally, knowing that her mother did love her in her twisted way was important for her to accept her own worthiness and trust herself.
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Date: 2010-07-04 09:26 pm (UTC)Am I the only one who was more psyched out for Maelstrom than I was Daybreak? I went out that afternoon and bought myself a stash of my favorite chocolate to mend my broken heart should it become necessary. Not to mention a bottle of wine. XD I think I may have watched the entire episode from a sitting fetal position. It was bad! And then it was good, because to me that episode, with all its "see what lies in the spaces between," not to mention the utter lack of destiny fulfillment, essentially promised that her death was ~not what it appeared and she would be back.
I don't consider it suicide for the most part. The major distinction I see is that Kara never committed the "sin of despair" that according to some traditions is what makes suicide so terrible. Although I think the story would have been better served had the writers not attempted to snow us into thinking they weren't bringing her back, it was clear that she knew she was dying for a greater purpose and that this wasn't the end for her.
I don't think she was crazy (if she had been, she wouldn't have come back and the whole thing would have played very differently) and in my preferred interpretation, the scene with her mother was actually real and not a hallucination. (If the head-characters/angels have the ability to transport her to Earth thousands of years in the past, I assume they can take her back several years on Caprica.) Much as her mother did horrible things and screwed her up emotionally, knowing that her mother did love her in her twisted way was important for her to accept her own worthiness and trust herself.