Birthday Fic: The Plains of Esdraelon (5/11)

[bugsfic]

Title: The Plains of Esdraelon (5/11)
Author: bugs
Summary: The medication is acquired for Billy, but new obstacles arise for the resistance.
Rating: T
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Angst, Drama
Word Count: 2,500
Series: The Stars in Their Courses

Comments

[frakcancer]

One of the things I love about the NC and the mutiny arcs is the sense that you never know who's against who, as here with Tory and Gaeta and Elizabeth's market rats.

Elizabeth continues to break my heart -- the pragmatism of kids raised in a war zone. At least they know how to avoid knife wielding attackers. (Oh, wait, that's not NC, that's down the block here. Just internet serendipity.)

Ishay! I'm really beginning to feel the love. And Figurski. I feel bad for him -- the only old man on Galactica whom no one loves.

Laura and Elizabeth's short discussion of faith -- the atheist and the reluctant believer. Is faith a gift from the gods (who might not exist) or your gift (and you certainly exist) to whatever might be out there?

Smart Laura, appending the shortest message which Bill would understand. Dumb Laura, not realizing how desperate her people are, how radicalizing the people isn't something that can be called off by denying them easy expression. Faith -- be it in the scrolls, the gods, the lover, the anger, the hate -- will find a way.

All of this has happened before and is just abot to happen again.

[lacklusterfic]

And Figurski. I feel bad for him -- the only old man on Galactica whom no one loves.

Remember how he got that great big smooch from some kind woman when they found Earth 1.0?... That was a great moment, it really was. ;-)

[frakcancer]

I think the prejudice against Figurski is worthy of a chapter in Baltar's books. If Figurski had been deck chief, we'd probably all love him. But since he's just a knuckle dragger, and there career and not as a stepping stone to dental school or where the hell ever, we belittle him. Pure classism.

[bugsfic]

Elizabeth continues to break my heart -- the pragmatism of kids raised in a war zone.

I cringed when I realized that she's once again going to be in the adrenaline charged situation. Any hope that she can be a 'normal' kid is sorta shot. But I guess the same can be said for all the human survivors.

And Figurski. I feel bad for him -- the only old man on Galactica whom no one loves.

Perhaps it's all for the best I never got a chance to post that Figurski's in on the Ellen gang bang drabble, eh? All your conceptions of him would have been shattered, baby!

I had to fit Laura's praying on NC in there somewhere, but I felt her faith definitely would have been tested more than in canon. In canon, she had to feel a bit vindicated by what happened, if not thrilled by the experience. Here, she feels somewhat responsible, and is more involved in some uncomfortable decisions than we saw in the rather confusing episodes.

Dumb Laura, not realizing how desperate her people are, how radicalizing the people isn't something that can be called off by denying them easy expression.

It's definitely something outside her comfort zone. And the person who could help her understand, Elizabeth, she doesn't want to encourage those thoughts in her daughter.

[frakcancer]

I don't think kids who spend formative years (as Elizabeth now has) in adrenaline charged situations ever are "normal" again. That's not necessarily a bad thing, just different. And in her society, they'll all be suffering from PTSD as soon as they get off the adrenaline merry-go-round anyway.

I still think the lack of Figurski love is classism. If EJO had been cast as Figurski, would we love him? Don't think so.

You're right. In canon NC, Roslin was the ultimate victim -- if only people had listened to her... Her faith was very strong, because what she had seen (Earth) was not the path the people took, and it led them to misery. Here she is responsible, and so cant reach for easy answers.