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Cain: Do you always get what you want?

Kara: Most of the time.

True or False?

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great dkp question!!!!

[imelda72.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. She does seem to get what she wants whenever she sets out to get something. She'll just bend the rules, right, if she's not allowed, and do it anyway. She takes the stealth ship to get pictures of the Resurrection ship, she ends up getting the Demetrius to find Earth, she gets her mission to rescue Samders, she gets the Arrow of Apollo, etc etc. She also gets Lee and Sam in her bed when she wants it.

The only thing I can think of that she doesn't accomplish/gain despite her efforts is to to escape from Leoben. Oh, and also, to kill Scar.

The heart of this question, though, is the bigger things in life -- does she get what she wants out of life? As for that, I don't know. For one thing, it's pretty damned hard to know what Kara really, deeply wants. We don't even know who she wants most of the time, which should be a pretty simple question. As for the big things? I'm trying to think of things she's mentioned that she wants:

- not to be forgotten
- a bright, shiny future/happy ending (I think that can be inferred from "Scar")
- to have contributed to the wellbeing of her peeps (inferred from her fear that she's a "cancer")
- to be forgiven for the things she's done wrong

I think she gets the first and last. I also think that the finale was supposed to indicate that SHE FEELS that she has contributed to her people -- right? She's supposed to be all at peace and whatever. And she does lead them all to Earht. While I don't think she gets the bright, happy ending she was talking about -- ie, a life on Earth -- I think the "see you on the other side" comments were supposed to be her happy ending.

So on the whole, I guess I vote for True.