in the BSG 'verse you don't need to have the same body in order to be the same person. And in Kara's case, there are all these indications that she'd "always been special,"
I like this. I like your reading of it, and it reassures me in the idea that Kara is a goddess. My issue is with the idea of Kara as an angel, in the way that Head-Six and Baltar are. Because if season 4 Kara is an angel, then she's not the same as she has "always" been. Either she's a separate entity that took on Starbuck's form, or she has died and come back as something different, which means Kara as we knew her really died. :-(
How do you define 'BSG canon?
I meant that there is nothing, really, in season 4 that indicates that Kara had to die to do what she did, is there? Nothing that says her death was an important moment for her. Leoben is really the only one who implies anything like that, as I remember, and his opinion is kind of invalidated when he freaks out at her dead body.
So mostly I think that my "optimistic" view comes from RDM's comments defending the finale. I think. If canon is only what we see on-screen, then there's nothing that implies Kara is a goddess, etc. Or very little, in any case.
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Date: 2010-07-05 12:07 am (UTC)I like this. I like your reading of it, and it reassures me in the idea that Kara is a goddess. My issue is with the idea of Kara as an angel, in the way that Head-Six and Baltar are. Because if season 4 Kara is an angel, then she's not the same as she has "always" been. Either she's a separate entity that took on Starbuck's form, or she has died and come back as something different, which means Kara as we knew her really died. :-(
How do you define 'BSG canon?
I meant that there is nothing, really, in season 4 that indicates that Kara had to die to do what she did, is there? Nothing that says her death was an important moment for her. Leoben is really the only one who implies anything like that, as I remember, and his opinion is kind of invalidated when he freaks out at her dead body.
So mostly I think that my "optimistic" view comes from RDM's comments defending the finale. I think. If canon is only what we see on-screen, then there's nothing that implies Kara is a goddess, etc. Or very little, in any case.