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meta: BSG, Kara/Anders and LYDB
Quick meta. Because I really will scream if I don't say this somewhere.
Spoilers for LYDB, only, as far as I can tell.
I've seen it lots and lots of places (most recently through a trawl through skiffy where I wanted to get my brain bleached and to then kill all of the stupid from ALL SIDES with my mind). The inference, the comment, the meta, the statement, that Kara and Sam, and their life on New Caprica, from the TEN SECONDS WE SEE, was obviously not happy for them. The bloom was off the rose. The honeymoon had ended the day after the wedding. Everything and anything in that vein.
And I'm kind of sick of it.
This is what we saw in LYDB2:
Sam playing pyramid while sick, Kara pissed at him, Kara worried about him, Kara trying to get meds from Tigh, Kara contacting Lee who she didn't think would help to get medicine for him.
IN WHAT WAY does this say "not happy to be married" to you people?
Let's tackle Sam playing pyramid and being cranky at his wife for stopping him, first.
As someone whose father was notorious for working even while sick (I believe I mentioned that he had mono one February, still worked, and THEN CAUGHT THE CHICKEN POX from us kids and STILL TRIED TO WORK), the concept of a male who is too sick to move STILL getting up and running around playing a stupid game? Totally believable. In fact, my dad frequently gets irritated when people tell him to take it easy when he's injured/sick.
So, he's being a Guy, and playing pyramid, and his interfering wife wanders up and drags him off. The guys mock him for being a pansy, and he tries to be cranky, but he's actually tired and sick and just ends up being a sulky brat.
And, lest it be ignored, if you reverse it, Kara would have done the same damned thing--the only difference is that Sam would then have picked her up and slung her over his shoulder.
Kara.
We know from previous scenes that she and Sam mock each other (lovingly or not). Her saying, "I can't believe I married a moron." is as much exasperation as it is worry because he could have made himself worse.
So, we have a woman yelling at her husband for being an idiot. Dragging him off and putting him to bed so the doctor can look at him. Then she asks the doc how he is, and finds out the prognosis isn't so grand. Now, instead of looking happy that her marriage (which must obviously suck, otherwise people wouldn't keep saying it does) will end with the death of her husband, Kara looks worried.
So worried that when she spots the Tighs, she makes a beeline for them, hugs and greets them, and tries to get drugs from them. And there is almost a desperation and bitterness in her. The gods are taking another man from her before she's ready to let him go. If she hadn't married him, he might not be sick. She's not going to go back and say she shouldn't have rescued him, of course.
And, no, she doesn't think New Caprica is a picnic. But no one on that planet looked happy.
Given time? I think she and Sam would have been one of those annoyingly cute old married couples who would have huge shouting matches and then really loud makeup sex and end up in charge of everyone else's kids--causing them to flee into the mountains to hide. A lot.
But instead of that time, the cylons came.
And before they did, Tigh told Kara to ask Lee for help with meds.
So she does. She swallows her pride and goes to ask Lee for help.
Blah, blah, cylons. Etc.
Funny. I'm not actually seeing unhappiness, here. I'm just seeing the 'in sicknesswith a lot of crankiness' part of the marriage vows (we never heard). And if that was unhappy? Then I'm worried to find out what Kara and Sam truly depressed looks like.
Definition: Old Married Couple. The type of pairing that loves each other, but knows each other too well and can get away with pulling things like calling each other names and sneaking out to play pyramid when sick. And also causing the eye-rolling. Sam and Jack do this a lot in season six of SG-1; Domino and Nate are the classic OMC; Adama and Roslin are close to it, though not declared in any way; John Crichton and Aeryn Sun also do it.
(my favoritest OMC:
) See also: partners.
PS. No, I tried to avoid using 'love', because I hate it. And because I think True Love Forever prejudices definitions and situations with qualifications and expectations that aren't real. Plus. Weddings suck.
Spoilers for LYDB, only, as far as I can tell.
I've seen it lots and lots of places (most recently through a trawl through skiffy where I wanted to get my brain bleached and to then kill all of the stupid from ALL SIDES with my mind). The inference, the comment, the meta, the statement, that Kara and Sam, and their life on New Caprica, from the TEN SECONDS WE SEE, was obviously not happy for them. The bloom was off the rose. The honeymoon had ended the day after the wedding. Everything and anything in that vein.
And I'm kind of sick of it.
This is what we saw in LYDB2:
Sam playing pyramid while sick, Kara pissed at him, Kara worried about him, Kara trying to get meds from Tigh, Kara contacting Lee who she didn't think would help to get medicine for him.
IN WHAT WAY does this say "not happy to be married" to you people?
Let's tackle Sam playing pyramid and being cranky at his wife for stopping him, first.
As someone whose father was notorious for working even while sick (I believe I mentioned that he had mono one February, still worked, and THEN CAUGHT THE CHICKEN POX from us kids and STILL TRIED TO WORK), the concept of a male who is too sick to move STILL getting up and running around playing a stupid game? Totally believable. In fact, my dad frequently gets irritated when people tell him to take it easy when he's injured/sick.
So, he's being a Guy, and playing pyramid, and his interfering wife wanders up and drags him off. The guys mock him for being a pansy, and he tries to be cranky, but he's actually tired and sick and just ends up being a sulky brat.
And, lest it be ignored, if you reverse it, Kara would have done the same damned thing--the only difference is that Sam would then have picked her up and slung her over his shoulder.
Kara.
We know from previous scenes that she and Sam mock each other (lovingly or not). Her saying, "I can't believe I married a moron." is as much exasperation as it is worry because he could have made himself worse.
So, we have a woman yelling at her husband for being an idiot. Dragging him off and putting him to bed so the doctor can look at him. Then she asks the doc how he is, and finds out the prognosis isn't so grand. Now, instead of looking happy that her marriage (which must obviously suck, otherwise people wouldn't keep saying it does) will end with the death of her husband, Kara looks worried.
So worried that when she spots the Tighs, she makes a beeline for them, hugs and greets them, and tries to get drugs from them. And there is almost a desperation and bitterness in her. The gods are taking another man from her before she's ready to let him go. If she hadn't married him, he might not be sick. She's not going to go back and say she shouldn't have rescued him, of course.
And, no, she doesn't think New Caprica is a picnic. But no one on that planet looked happy.
Given time? I think she and Sam would have been one of those annoyingly cute old married couples who would have huge shouting matches and then really loud makeup sex and end up in charge of everyone else's kids--causing them to flee into the mountains to hide. A lot.
But instead of that time, the cylons came.
And before they did, Tigh told Kara to ask Lee for help with meds.
So she does. She swallows her pride and goes to ask Lee for help.
Blah, blah, cylons. Etc.
Funny. I'm not actually seeing unhappiness, here. I'm just seeing the 'in sickness
Definition: Old Married Couple. The type of pairing that loves each other, but knows each other too well and can get away with pulling things like calling each other names and sneaking out to play pyramid when sick. And also causing the eye-rolling. Sam and Jack do this a lot in season six of SG-1; Domino and Nate are the classic OMC; Adama and Roslin are close to it, though not declared in any way; John Crichton and Aeryn Sun also do it.
(my favoritest OMC:
PS. No, I tried to avoid using 'love', because I hate it. And because I think True Love Forever prejudices definitions and situations with qualifications and expectations that aren't real. Plus. Weddings suck.
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