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[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I've been in not-quite-thinky mode lately and have fallen back on just posting pics here most of the time. So I'm gonna be lazy (some more!) and ask y'all to post questions and topics of discussion we should cover here! (Or, if you're good with just the pictures, that's fine too.)

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[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about a possible discussion topic: Kara's statues. Personally, I love that she prays to Artemis and Aphrodite but I'm curious about what other people think. I remember the first time we saw those idols, I thought that Artemis was an obvious choice but Aphrodite less so--Athena would have been an easier option given that Kara's a soldier and all that. Which is not to say that I think it should have been Athena--just the opposite! I think it's really interesting that Kara who has such a difficult relationship with love prays to Aphrodite.

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

I was curious about Stockholm Syndrome (mostly because I'm obsessed with the New Caprica arc) and did some research:

Wiki again: A paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages have positive feelings towards their captors that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, essentially mistaking a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness.

The following are viewed as the conditions necessary for Stockholm syndrome to occur:

* Hostages who develop Stockholm syndrome often view the perpetrator as giving life by simply not taking it. In this sense, the captor becomes the person in control of the captive’s basic needs for survival and the victim’s life itself.
* The hostage endures isolation from other people and has only the captor’s perspective available. Perpetrators routinely keep information about the outside world’s response to their actions from captives to keep them totally dependent.
* The hostage taker threatens to kill the victim and gives the perception of having the capability to do so. The captive judges it safer to align with the perpetrator, endure the hardship of captivity, and comply with the captor than to resist and face death.
* The captive sees the perpetrator as showing some degree of kindness. Kindness serves as the cornerstone of Stockholm syndrome; the condition will not develop unless the captor exhibits it in some form toward the hostage. However, captives often misinterpret a lack of abuse as kindness and may develop feelings of appreciation for this perceived benevolence. If the perpetrators show some kindness, victims will submerge the anger they feel in response to the terror and concentrate on the captors’ “good side” to protect themselves.

This certainly sounds like what Leoben was going for with Kara--whether intentionally or not.

Did he succeed at all?

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I know this is kind of late, but I have been wondering what Kara felt when Lee gave her the Aurora idol she had given Adama. Did she feel hurt that her gift had been re-gifted or did she realize Adama had given it to Lee because it was meaningful to him?