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commotiocordis) wrote2007-04-02 11:51 pm
commotiocordis) wrote2007-04-02 11:51 pm
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Just watched Resurrection Ship part 2 (BSG 2.12), and I've realized that I've developed quite a Cain/Thrace kink. It's interesting, because I can say that I completely never expected that. I was a Roslin/Thrace girl even before I started really watching the show, after I had only seen the miniseries and the two or three episodes towards the end of season one that they broadcast on network to try and hook people in, and though I've read other stuff, Roslin/Thrace is pretty much what I've considered my femslash OTP for Battlestar since the beginning. The Cain character is so freaking amazing, though, that she's hard to pass over. Michelle Forbes did some interview about playing her and mentioned how it's not that she's insane or psychotic or anything like that, she's just lost perspective trying to keep her people alive, she lost her sense of judgment, etc. Which is totally how I saw the character from the beginning. It's the perfect conflict: in fighting these Cylons, she's lost what makes her human simply in trying to survive in those conditions. And Forbes = great at it.
I loved Cain and Gina/Six's last lines of the episode. Cain: "Frak you." Gina: "You're not my type." Cain: *Yeah, honestly, you're not butch enough for me, either. Starbuck, though, I would hit that.*
I really wanted to find some kind of crossover between Star Trek and BSG that takes Ro Laren (played by Michelle Forbes, same actor as Admiral Cain) and somehow explains her being in the BSG universe, getting rid of the nose to fit in, etc., and (and this is the most important and thus naturally the most difficult part) how she went from guerrilla fighter with a cause to seemingly morally bankrupt and working for pure survival. Now that I've seen 2.12, though, it seems a lot easier to connect the two because now we know she's not the completely heartless bitch that she appeared to be in earlier episodes.
Though I realized my Cain/Thrace kink before she actually turned out to not be said completely heartless bitch. The revelation just helped allow me to see whatever relationship they had going on as more than Cain being infatuated (as even without my femslashy radar, it really was kinda odd Cain's trusting and baring of intimate stuff after not that long of Kara working for her) and Kara sort of just going along with it out of a combination of Stockholm syndrome and self-preservation. I think Kara totally would have done her after the attack out of relief for the distinct lack of planned executions of fellow battlestar commanders committed. Because she sensed that Cain was planning the same thing, methinks, during the odd phone calls. And relief makes you suggestible and Cain's totally got an eye for blondes, ergo frakking.
So. Was planning to only watch that one episode and then go to sleep, as I've got to take out the trash in the morning and make up a bio quiz before my history class, but now I've got to see if I can find any Cain/Thrace. Because the more I think about it, the more I'm loving the pairing.
I loved Cain and Gina/Six's last lines of the episode. Cain: "Frak you." Gina: "You're not my type." Cain: *Yeah, honestly, you're not butch enough for me, either. Starbuck, though, I would hit that.*
I really wanted to find some kind of crossover between Star Trek and BSG that takes Ro Laren (played by Michelle Forbes, same actor as Admiral Cain) and somehow explains her being in the BSG universe, getting rid of the nose to fit in, etc., and (and this is the most important and thus naturally the most difficult part) how she went from guerrilla fighter with a cause to seemingly morally bankrupt and working for pure survival. Now that I've seen 2.12, though, it seems a lot easier to connect the two because now we know she's not the completely heartless bitch that she appeared to be in earlier episodes.
Though I realized my Cain/Thrace kink before she actually turned out to not be said completely heartless bitch. The revelation just helped allow me to see whatever relationship they had going on as more than Cain being infatuated (as even without my femslashy radar, it really was kinda odd Cain's trusting and baring of intimate stuff after not that long of Kara working for her) and Kara sort of just going along with it out of a combination of Stockholm syndrome and self-preservation. I think Kara totally would have done her after the attack out of relief for the distinct lack of planned executions of fellow battlestar commanders committed. Because she sensed that Cain was planning the same thing, methinks, during the odd phone calls. And relief makes you suggestible and Cain's totally got an eye for blondes, ergo frakking.
So. Was planning to only watch that one episode and then go to sleep, as I've got to take out the trash in the morning and make up a bio quiz before my history class, but now I've got to see if I can find any Cain/Thrace. Because the more I think about it, the more I'm loving the pairing.
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