It took BSG to get an update out of me

Nov 04, 2010 13:34

I should be doing some homework while Lexi is napping, but I really wanted to share some thoughts on BSG without spoiling it for my twitter peeps.


I never hated Callie. I loved her. She's adorable- I always go for the small, dark haired girls. In the end, I felt really bad for her. Even when we find out Tyrol isn't the father of their baby; I still couldn't hate her for cheating on him with Hotdog. He openly admits that he settled for her. Yes he loved her, but not as much as he loved Boomer. He is very clear that she wasn't enough for him. It is so easy for him to fall for Boomer all over again. I think, on some level, Callie must have known she wasn't the first in his heart. She must have known that he wasn't content with her. Knowing he didn't love her back the way she loved him, maybe she went looking for someone to fill that gap. Maybe she fraked Hotdog so she felt like someone loved her. That's how I imagine it anyway.

There are lots of themes in BSG, but in the end, the writers really focus on divinity. What is it? How do we relate to it? Starbucks ending was annoying when I first watched it. What the fuck? Right? From a storyline perspective, I hate it. But then I started thinking about what they were trying to say. Starbuck, as a person, is no angel. We would never describe her as angelic. Interestingly, this is what makes her part of the divine. The message here is: more fucked up and flawed you are, the closer you are to god- whether you know it or not. This strays from conventional Christianities idea that God is perfect. In BSG, God is not perfection, but rather he/she is imperfection. Starbuck cannot have human things like love, marriage, children, and an unflawed existence because she is too close to god. Angels do not know such earth bound concepts. As long as she remains human, she will be flawed. She will do things out of emotion and confusion. Her heart will be one place while her head is another. Or perhaps more accurately, her heart will be in two places at once. When we finally acknowledge her divinity, than we can understand her flaws. Starbuck is no angel. She is a tiny fragment of the divine fallen to help a people in need. Starbuck is god.

Thoughts? Disagreements? Agreements?

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