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lizardbeth) wrote2007-06-04 02:24 pm
lizardbeth) wrote2007-06-04 02:24 pm
Anders discussion questions...
Ok, so I'm obviously on a Sam-fic writing frenzy lately, and I've thought of a few questions for y'all.
Because this is spoilery...
1.
In the Quadrangle, Kara was treating Sam rather, er, badly. Now, we've discussed before why he let her: is he really a doormat (as some say)? Was he just giving damaged Kara time to figure out what she wanted because he really does love her and he understands she needs space and time? (and okay, yeah, I subscribe to the second obviously).
But, it occurred to me to wonder if he also still doesn't feel guilty about what happened to her on New Caprica. I've certainly written him during NC as feeling guilty that he can't find or rescue her. What if that guilt continued on later, as he watches her fall apart? He sleeps with her, so he's gotta know she still has nightmares at the very least, plus she did talk to him about Leoben at SOME point...
So is being her boy toy in some measure doing penance for his failure to keep her safe?
2.
Or, and this is my other thought (and the two aren't mutually exclusive), perhaps he was also feeling guilty about the deaths he'd caused as part of the Circle. In Collaborators, we can already see him getting sick of it, and eventually walk out. I guess this sort of depends on how hard-core a person sees Sam and probably one's own level of comfort with the plot-line, but did the human deaths (both on NC and later as part of the Circle) bother him later? Given that we know nothing of what he was up to on the other ship when he wasn't with Kara -- there's a lot of time there where second-thoughts might have started to prey on him. And a booty call to Galactica might have sounded like a good idea to forget his own demons, too.
3.
And okay, while we're on the subject of Collaborators: they return to Galactica after NC and they end up in Kara's rack. NOT in married quarters. All the other couples we know about get married quarters: Agathons, Adamas, and the Tyrols. Now, one thing is all of them are military, where Sam wasn't, so that might be one explanation. But if we assume it was someone's choice, was it Kara's? Did she refuse any offer Adama might have made for married quarters in her quest to "Starbuck" herself? Or was there some other reason?
In any case, if Starbuck refused the quarters, it helps me understand why Sam gave her back the tags -- he'd already had fair warning that she didn't consider herself married or at least together anymore.
Thoughts?
Because this is spoilery...
1.
In the Quadrangle, Kara was treating Sam rather, er, badly. Now, we've discussed before why he let her: is he really a doormat (as some say)? Was he just giving damaged Kara time to figure out what she wanted because he really does love her and he understands she needs space and time? (and okay, yeah, I subscribe to the second obviously).
But, it occurred to me to wonder if he also still doesn't feel guilty about what happened to her on New Caprica. I've certainly written him during NC as feeling guilty that he can't find or rescue her. What if that guilt continued on later, as he watches her fall apart? He sleeps with her, so he's gotta know she still has nightmares at the very least, plus she did talk to him about Leoben at SOME point...
So is being her boy toy in some measure doing penance for his failure to keep her safe?
2.
Or, and this is my other thought (and the two aren't mutually exclusive), perhaps he was also feeling guilty about the deaths he'd caused as part of the Circle. In Collaborators, we can already see him getting sick of it, and eventually walk out. I guess this sort of depends on how hard-core a person sees Sam and probably one's own level of comfort with the plot-line, but did the human deaths (both on NC and later as part of the Circle) bother him later? Given that we know nothing of what he was up to on the other ship when he wasn't with Kara -- there's a lot of time there where second-thoughts might have started to prey on him. And a booty call to Galactica might have sounded like a good idea to forget his own demons, too.
3.
And okay, while we're on the subject of Collaborators: they return to Galactica after NC and they end up in Kara's rack. NOT in married quarters. All the other couples we know about get married quarters: Agathons, Adamas, and the Tyrols. Now, one thing is all of them are military, where Sam wasn't, so that might be one explanation. But if we assume it was someone's choice, was it Kara's? Did she refuse any offer Adama might have made for married quarters in her quest to "Starbuck" herself? Or was there some other reason?
In any case, if Starbuck refused the quarters, it helps me understand why Sam gave her back the tags -- he'd already had fair warning that she didn't consider herself married or at least together anymore.
Thoughts?