Who's to say she ever died or ever really existed?
I think that's the whole point of Battlestar: what makes something or someone real. What makes someone human.
Most people, I think, have this idea that when she comes back she's an angel, or at least that she is somehow different. But why? Why does coming back make her any more or less real? Maybe she was always an angel, or maybe our idea of a person is not necessarily true.
Trying to analyze Maelstrom is constricted by our vocabulary--we might call her ship exploding her "death" because we don't have the right word for it. It's not that she comes back to life in Crossroads, just that she comes back to the fleet.
To me, her story just emphasizes the fact that there are things we don't know, things we will never understand, and I accept that. I don't love Kara because she's human or angel or cylon or anything, I love her because of her pain and her love and the life in her.
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Date: 2010-07-04 10:24 pm (UTC)I think that's the whole point of Battlestar: what makes something or someone real. What makes someone human.
Most people, I think, have this idea that when she comes back she's an angel, or at least that she is somehow different. But why? Why does coming back make her any more or less real? Maybe she was always an angel, or maybe our idea of a person is not necessarily true.
Trying to analyze Maelstrom is constricted by our vocabulary--we might call her ship exploding her "death" because we don't have the right word for it. It's not that she comes back to life in Crossroads, just that she comes back to the fleet.
To me, her story just emphasizes the fact that there are things we don't know, things we will never understand, and I accept that. I don't love Kara because she's human or angel or cylon or anything, I love her because of her pain and her love and the life in her.