A Community Celebrating the Lives and Times of Kara "Starbuck" Thrace

So, a few weeks after the finale, a friend of mine asked to borrow my DVDs and started watching BSG. He zipped through them and when he got to the Pegasus arc, he texted me specifically to tell me how much he hated Admiral Cain.

This surprised me a little because I have to admit that my Kara bias (and okay a bit of Michelle Forbes bias too! She played twins on Guiding Light! The good Sonni and the evil Solida! They were like the Wakefield Twins but brunette! Ok not really...) Anyway, he hadn't seen Razor yet of course, which adds a lot more context about Cain, but even still...I remember being torn on Cain because of how she obviously seemed to see potential in Kara that Adama didn't. She made her captain! After everything else Kara did, it took this other, outside person to make her captain! Now certainly it was a calculated move, but still! It was about time someone gave her some adulation.

And the effect Cain had on Kara was quite profound as well, judging by her eulogy. I read in someone's journal once a musing about whether or not Kara (and Lee) knew what Cain had done and why Adama wanted her killed. That is, if she'd known about the execution of civilians, would she have felt as kindly to Cain still and given the eulogy where she says "maybe we were safer with her".  I don't think so.

Clearly though, she saw a lot of her mother in Cain and she was finally getting that approval she craved.

What do you think about their interesting and complicated relationship?