Friendlies

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

"I remember the first day I met you, Starbuck. You were puking your guts out in the head because you'd eaten bad oysters on…"


We know only a little about Kara and Sharon's relationship before the show begins. Clearly, they were friends, but how close? Was it more of a mentor-type relationship? Kara says she taught Sharon how to stick a landing (I think?) Did they go out on leave together to port? Dancing at Cloud 9 off shift? Tell us something about their friendship...or write some fic maybe? ;)

Comments

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting question. It seems to me like they were trying to play the two of these as good friends before the attacks and Sharon's reveal as a cylon, but it never really worked for me. I never felt the bond that the dialogue seemed to imply. It seems much stronger between Helo and Kara or even Kara and Crashdown (during cardgames). Maybe it's because they didn't have that much interaction. Maybe because Sharon's reveal was so close to the beginning of the show? Not sure. Even the scene later when Kara visits her in the brig, I know they were referencing some past connection, but I don't even remember Kara reacting to Sharon as a cylon in any reflective way. Yeah, she gave Helo a lot of shit about it, but no reflection of Kara's own personal feelings of betrayal. It is possible that I am forgetting some scene completely...

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

I agree. I'm pretty sure I was SUPPOSED to care, but as far as I recall, there wasn't a whole lot to work with there until the characters were already well-established (and even then).

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I'm with both of you ladies, they never really sold me on the Kara & Sharon connection. Just a few scenes together would have made the moment when she freaks out in KLG a bit more...powerful.

And after she found out, she had the scene where she levels the gun on Sharon right away, and she bitches her out a little at the end of The Farm, but I agree that she mostly seemed a bit torn, definitely by the time they got back in Home.

[pressdbtwnpages.livejournal.com]

And really, a lot of Kara's reacting to Sharon being a Cylon is what makes her friendship with HELO convincing to me. Her outrage reads (watches?) as general Cylons-are-life-ruiners rage and then protective of Helo, rather than being especially personal (and given that Kara is Kara and kind of all about Kara a lot of the time, that seems telling).