Well, re: Lee being so much more anguished than anyone else by her death - unlike the rest of them, he watched it happen. Her ship blew up literally in front of his eyes, right after he himself encouraged her to get back in the cockpit and fly when she didn't want to. So I guess what we're seeing is Lee's PTSD (inability to function normally etc) combined with guilt, which is how I understood it anyway. Frankly, I thought Bill and Lee's private moments of grief were more effective in being about Kara than the big showdown *sigh*.
And I would have liked to see how Kara's death affected the others too, esp. Helo, though we do get to see a very subdued bunch in the ready room and the deck and one of the deckhands or pilots says that real justice would be Baltar being dead and Starbuck being alive. *sigh*
I do agree with you about the show using Kara as a tool rather than a character after her death, but at least it's understandable when she's still dead - the only way to focus on her is through those she was closest to. The problem was when they brought her back and kept her as The Great Roadsign To Earth. S4 Kara definitely did show signs of the manpain (I hate the whole Demetrius/ WE'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY! arc), though the death was her own rather than a Dead Fiance.
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Date: 2011-06-17 08:07 pm (UTC)And I would have liked to see how Kara's death affected the others too, esp. Helo, though we do get to see a very subdued bunch in the ready room and the deck and one of the deckhands or pilots says that real justice would be Baltar being dead and Starbuck being alive. *sigh*
I do agree with you about the show using Kara as a tool rather than a character after her death, but at least it's understandable when she's still dead - the only way to focus on her is through those she was closest to. The problem was when they brought her back and kept her as The Great Roadsign To Earth. S4 Kara definitely did show signs of the manpain (I hate the whole Demetrius/ WE'RE GOING THE WRONG WAY! arc), though the death was her own rather than a Dead Fiance.