A House is Not a Home

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Well I hated the NC arc actually, but I did think it was pretty clever. I just am not sure anything else would have been able to get to Kara in the way this did, esp. with the child. (Although one would think then that her greatest fear would be neither death nor being forgotten, but....motherhood.)

I think the reason I always dread Leoben's interaction with Kara is that it does overall feel very disingenuous to me and did ever since Flesh and Bone. It didn't make sense to me that Kara would let a cylon whose goal she knows to be mindfrakking actually affect her. I also don't think his dialogue in that episode is all that strong or sensical, which means Kara has to overreact to it a bit in order for them to make it emotional and get to that hand on the glass place which I detest. And it just feels manipulative.

And then of course, since they created this "big bond" in F&B, they kind of over-rely on that later. And you just know everytime Leoben shows up, it's BSG "breaking" Kara a bit more. Which sucks, because I love when we get to see her vulnerable side, but only when it's earned. When it's logically prompted by those she actually cares about (Bill, Lee, etc.) not some manipulative situation like this.