Josh and I have just been arguing about this very subject. We're two discs into season 3, and I just don't see Starbuck as much of a frakup as the men on the show want me to believe she is. Half the time when Lee is riding her ass and telling her she's screwing up, I'm not so sure she is. Like he belittles her six ways to Sunday for sleeping with Baltar after the presidential elections. At that point, nobody knows he's a collaborator. I'm sure they all think he's nuts because he keeps talking to himself, but they don't know what he's done. So a grown woman sleeping with a grown man under consenting conditions that hurt no one becomes Starbuck is a fuckup in Lee's mind because he's in love with her and it pisses him off. (Which as much as that scene made me mad, I also love the way Lee loves Starbuck, so six of one half dozen of the other). Or when she's made CAG on Pegasus and the new Commander calls Lee over to "deal with her" and makes out like she's fucking up, which Lee totally buys, but what's really going on is that the commander's ordered her soldiers to screw around with her and not give her vital info. It's like she's spitting into the wind and getting blamed for the weather.
That being said, she's impulsive and cocky and she uses booze to fix everything and she just *sob* gave up on her marriage, I think, but I can't hardly blame her because she has PTSD and is so angry.
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Re: Moar questions!
Date: 2010-07-23 12:11 am (UTC)Josh and I have just been arguing about this very subject. We're two discs into season 3, and I just don't see Starbuck as much of a frakup as the men on the show want me to believe she is. Half the time when Lee is riding her ass and telling her she's screwing up, I'm not so sure she is. Like he belittles her six ways to Sunday for sleeping with Baltar after the presidential elections. At that point, nobody knows he's a collaborator. I'm sure they all think he's nuts because he keeps talking to himself, but they don't know what he's done. So a grown woman sleeping with a grown man under consenting conditions that hurt no one becomes Starbuck is a fuckup in Lee's mind because he's in love with her and it pisses him off. (Which as much as that scene made me mad, I also love the way Lee loves Starbuck, so six of one half dozen of the other). Or when she's made CAG on Pegasus and the new Commander calls Lee over to "deal with her" and makes out like she's fucking up, which Lee totally buys, but what's really going on is that the commander's ordered her soldiers to screw around with her and not give her vital info. It's like she's spitting into the wind and getting blamed for the weather.
That being said, she's impulsive and cocky and she uses booze to fix everything and she just *sob* gave up on her marriage, I think, but I can't hardly blame her because she has PTSD and is so angry.
LOL I am too invested in this show.