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Meta: Sam 'not quite machiavelli' Anders
Spoilers for Rapture and speculation for the next episode.
So, according to the preview, Kara tells Sam she loves Lee, and Sam tells her to go to Lee, and she does.
Why would Sam do that?
1. He loves Kara, and figures if Lee makes her happy, yay.
2. He figures she'll get Lee out of her system.
3. He, being the people person he is, now gets Lee. And pretty much is gambling that Lee will send Kara back to him.
1 and 2, I'm ignoring.
It's 3 I'm interested in.
We know Sam reads people--EoJ, he saw the uncertainty in the crowd and he reached out and took them into the palm of his hand, and made them work for him. He's good on a one-on-one basis, too. Witness his easy manipulation of Kara.
Sam knows Lee, now. He's watched him lead people, watched him yell and scream and argue. He knows that Lee loves his wife. And that Lee loves Kara. And that Lee, for whatever reason, has some sort of honor--and now has doubt about Kara and her intentions. Doubt that Sam himself planted.
Because Lee knows he's not the first for Kara cheating on Sam--and whether it's true or not, it's not exactly something Sam can go and take back.
Not that he wants to.
Sam also, I think, knows that Lee wants Kara for more than just a short time.
He sends Kara to Lee.
Whether Kara tells him Sam sent her or not, Lee's doubt will be there. He can either have Kara until she gets bored with him, or he can tell her no, and stay with his wife (who he does love, though he's being an ass). And I think Lee is going to choose the latter option. Because, as I said, he wants Kara forever--that was the whole crux of him telling Kara to break off her thing with Sam in UB.
Sam is counting on Lee going for that option.
So, he'll get Kara back. A Kara rejected by Lee. He won't, I don't think, take advantage of that. He'll simply be there for her.
At least he didn't take over a third-world country, manipulate events, and let himself get shot just to get her back. But he is obviously learning at the Cable School of Manipulating Your S.O.
(this is all speculation, and possibly, sarcasm)
So, according to the preview, Kara tells Sam she loves Lee, and Sam tells her to go to Lee, and she does.
Why would Sam do that?
1. He loves Kara, and figures if Lee makes her happy, yay.
2. He figures she'll get Lee out of her system.
3. He, being the people person he is, now gets Lee. And pretty much is gambling that Lee will send Kara back to him.
1 and 2, I'm ignoring.
It's 3 I'm interested in.
We know Sam reads people--EoJ, he saw the uncertainty in the crowd and he reached out and took them into the palm of his hand, and made them work for him. He's good on a one-on-one basis, too. Witness his easy manipulation of Kara.
Sam knows Lee, now. He's watched him lead people, watched him yell and scream and argue. He knows that Lee loves his wife. And that Lee loves Kara. And that Lee, for whatever reason, has some sort of honor--and now has doubt about Kara and her intentions. Doubt that Sam himself planted.
Because Lee knows he's not the first for Kara cheating on Sam--and whether it's true or not, it's not exactly something Sam can go and take back.
Not that he wants to.
Sam also, I think, knows that Lee wants Kara for more than just a short time.
He sends Kara to Lee.
Whether Kara tells him Sam sent her or not, Lee's doubt will be there. He can either have Kara until she gets bored with him, or he can tell her no, and stay with his wife (who he does love, though he's being an ass). And I think Lee is going to choose the latter option. Because, as I said, he wants Kara forever--that was the whole crux of him telling Kara to break off her thing with Sam in UB.
Sam is counting on Lee going for that option.
So, he'll get Kara back. A Kara rejected by Lee. He won't, I don't think, take advantage of that. He'll simply be there for her.
At least he didn't take over a third-world country, manipulate events, and let himself get shot just to get her back. But he is obviously learning at the Cable School of Manipulating Your S.O.
(this is all speculation, and possibly, sarcasm)
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Dear RDM,
Please have read lyssie's mind. Because that shit is HOT. And please with the real reunion sex.
Kthxbi, kelly
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Can I have a Helo AND a Sam, please?
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Ron could be listening. It's sometimes hard to tell. But he got he bit with Caprica as a prisoner on Galactica, so we'll see.
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*laughs* They are and... they aren't. I honestly am having trouble wrapping my brain around Sam telling her to go to Lee as it IS. And this... is about the only way it makes sense. Well, that, and the, "she always comes back to him in the end" thing.
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HATEDETEST skiffy's promos?no subject
Damnit, that's worse than "We don't say goodbyes." "We do, this time."I hate Skiffy's promos with a passion. Only Ron gets more hate.
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And you know what? P!nk = Starbuck. Dammit, I want to vid this whole CD.
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Lots of explosions. *happysigh*
*laughs* She kind of does, although she's also very emo-like, and thus, somewhat Courtney Love-ish.
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And Jake is the Cylon god. They just spelled it wrong.
Dammit. I need a Jake icon.
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Aside from any cheating that she might do with anonymous people, Lee knows that she still loves Sam (the look on his face when Sam/Kara were clinging to each other at the end of Rapture), so he'll never have her completely. If she's willing to cheat on Sam with him, what's going to stop her from cheating on him with Sam. Because. She. Always. Goes. Back. To. Sam.
IIRC, at the end of Rapture, Lee is the one who looked away from the longing gaze with Kara first. He closed his eyes and sank into Dee. Hopefully, that foreshadows Lee closing the door with Kara and actually trying to make his marriage with Dee work.
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I can hope. If Ron listens.
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Also. If Sam didn't say "I love you" I'll hit him. sigh. Argh.
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*nods happily*
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I'm still disturbed that I called it...
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and it's funny, at least to me, because that's how i was arguing that Sam was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when we first saw him....that he took her at face value and loved her anyway.
i especially love your points about Lee with regards to Kara and how that contrasts with Sam as regards to her, because it sooooooo explains why Lee goes to Dee and essentially begs for his marriage, and means it.
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Until he started blowing shit up in Occupation, that is.
Now, it's more like 50% want him dead, 25% really don't care either way, and 23% think he's fabulous while 2% still think he's bland, but at least he's useful.
Because if he doesn't mean it, he's lost her for good. And he won't get Kara forever (even if she left Sam, there's no way in hell she'd ever be completely faithful to ANY man).
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Kara's problem isn't faithfulness to men, it's faithfulness to self. she can't commit to anyone else when she can't even commit fully to Kara.