Friendlies

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"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? ;)

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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.

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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).