Beauty and the Beast: A Frakked-Up Fairy Tale

[innibis]

Title: Beauty and the Beast (2/2)
Author: innibis
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9,376
Pairing: Kara/Lee
Genre: Completely AU
Disclaimer: I am not RDM or any of his cohorts. I do not lay claim to BSG in any way, shape or form; especially the finale.

A/N: Ah, workerbee73, a beta who can be trusted to see the beauty in the beast.

Part I

Comments

[lapsedprof]

Hi!
Yes, sticking my head out of my lurker cage to say hey! and thanks! I nearly inserted myself into the two-night-long infamous TABLE discussion over at Bee's (hey! Bee) and actually spent quite a long time composing my post - only to lose it while spell-checking. (Oh, well, at least I figured out what I thought - at least for the moment).
I was particularly moved by your redemption of Black Market, Phelan, Shevon, Kendra, edgier sex and general debauchery in light of that long tread. Specifically, I was so happy to see all those bad! wrong! dirty! shameful! characters and behaviors treated with some respect and given their due here. I also like the mix of castle and jungle (I don't usually think of those together) combined with a butt f**k outpost and town market. Great set pieces. And then the way you keep pulling it back to B and the B, just when I forget that's the underpinning.
Yes, today was better. And I'm sure it was helped by having such an entertaining bed time story rattling around in my head (ok, I read it earlier, but don't think it didn't keep rattling. And I knew I could always duck back into it if things got too bad today).
Cheers.

[innibis]

One of the things I never liked about BSG was how Puritanical it was. I mean, it was the end of the worlds, the human race is on the brink of extinction and the writers were making points about how bad drugs and booze and sex were. I know they thought they were edgy showing it, but it was always with this thinly disguised veneer of disapproval. They did a bad job with Black Market, showing it as a place where only bad things happened as opposed to a place where normal people might be able to find some comfort or escape, or a pice of chocolate. But then they always did a bad job on anything that wasn't focused on the elites of the fleet.

Why on earth was it supposed to be bad that Lee was paying for sex? She needed the money, he wanted to have sex with no strings attached. . . what's the problem? I much prefered that to when he used Dee to stroke his Starbuck-broken ego.

It was funny to me that the human weaknesses of the flesh were held in much more contempt then the human weaknesses of the spirit. Adama and Roslin were always forgiven their horrific leadership, but when Bill was on the sauce and Roslin the drugs, that was when we were supposed to tsk them.

[lapsedprof]

Agreed, though I don't think I realized that until the end. But it did certainly become clear with the finale. And, yes, that bugged me. Redemption for murderers but not adulterers. Violence cool, sex not. Oh, right, there was precedent for that... ah, well.

[innibis]

Yeah - it was the end that drove it home, where we flashback to Gaius passing Caprica the codes used to murder 50 billion people and then walking off into the sunset together.

*rage*