BSG and stuff
I have pages and pages and pages I could write about BSG, the finale, and why I broke with the show as a fandom a long time ago, but honestly? I don't think anyone would want to read that, so I'll just sum up my general feelings with an immortal line from another show that mired itself in its own mythology and was lost by a showrunner with a bloated ego and a tiny brain:
Sure. Fine. Whatever. (Dana Scully)
And I also am incredibly upset by and feel like I have something to say about much of the fannish vitriol spewing on one specific thing about the finale, but again, I don't think anyone really cares about my opinion on it, but I will say it anyway and put it behind
I am so very tired of the abuse heaped on Adama for putting the ring on Laura's finger after he sees she has passed. I know that pretty much everyone on my flist despises Bill and it's hard to read that sometimes, because I do love him so much. But to use that as a cudgel to beat on Adama just... corpse bride and marrying his dead girlfriend and all the rotten comments are giving me the blues. The Adama-hate gives me the blues, but I can live with that. This part carries it so far it hurts. I can't help but think that everyone who's made these comments has never watched someone die, or held someone in their arms when they died, or had someone they loved next to them as they passed. Putting that ring on her finger wasn't a romantic gesture, it was a loving gesture of connection to the woman he adored, in the situation they were in. I put a couple of my sister's rings back on her fingers after she went because I wanted her to have those on her body. I'm just... really amazed at how meanspirited the interpretation is on this act. It made me cry, it was familiar to me, and I loved Bill all the more for making it. They could have married at any time after they finally got together; it wasn't about "marrying" that made him put that ring on her finger. It was much larger and much more important, and I hate the way people are cheapening it because they've never been with someone when they died.
And now I'm just too sad and tired and I think I'm going to watch something mindless and funny.
Sure. Fine. Whatever. (Dana Scully)
And I also am incredibly upset by and feel like I have something to say about much of the fannish vitriol spewing on one specific thing about the finale, but again, I don't think anyone really cares about my opinion on it, but I will say it anyway and put it behind
I am so very tired of the abuse heaped on Adama for putting the ring on Laura's finger after he sees she has passed. I know that pretty much everyone on my flist despises Bill and it's hard to read that sometimes, because I do love him so much. But to use that as a cudgel to beat on Adama just... corpse bride and marrying his dead girlfriend and all the rotten comments are giving me the blues. The Adama-hate gives me the blues, but I can live with that. This part carries it so far it hurts. I can't help but think that everyone who's made these comments has never watched someone die, or held someone in their arms when they died, or had someone they loved next to them as they passed. Putting that ring on her finger wasn't a romantic gesture, it was a loving gesture of connection to the woman he adored, in the situation they were in. I put a couple of my sister's rings back on her fingers after she went because I wanted her to have those on her body. I'm just... really amazed at how meanspirited the interpretation is on this act. It made me cry, it was familiar to me, and I loved Bill all the more for making it. They could have married at any time after they finally got together; it wasn't about "marrying" that made him put that ring on her finger. It was much larger and much more important, and I hate the way people are cheapening it because they've never been with someone when they died.
And now I'm just too sad and tired and I think I'm going to watch something mindless and funny.