I am SO with you on Bill. It really bothered me that he executed Gaeta without a backwards thought, but when he told Helo "I've lost a son, you've lost a daughter"... I just lost all sympathy for him. I really did. And he used to be one of my favorite characters EVER. But his response to Helo just... I can't forget it.
Laura... I didn't hate her after the mutiny. But I also always thought she was more ruthless than Bill, and it struck me as a part of her character. But yeah, I can see where this one would bug people :) Although, to her credit, the things Laura had the Actives doing were genuine benefits to the Fleet. I can't really defend her with Felix, but I think it was an interesting dilemma with Racetrack and Narcho, who both volunteered (and Laura doesn't know that Narcho changed his mind at the last minute). If they volunteer, like Racetrack and Narcho, and if Laura is genuinely using them for the kinds of things she was doing, I think it becomes so much more morally gray.
What makes me sad is that Bill/Laura used to be my OTP of all time, before 4.5. ::Sigh:: But yeah, there are parts of this fic that are definitely intended to anger.
Yes! I loved Bill at the beginning of the series, and through most of season three, but it went so downhill, so fast with him and I.
I always disliked Laura, and it got worse as the series went on. I don't disagree that what the Actives were wasn't helpful or awesome, or even necessary, but...does having two (sort of) volunteers negate the fact that some of them aren't?. It's definitely a morally gray area, which I definitely enjoyed reading.
The moral gray was most definitely WAY too much fun. :) I honestly don't know what I thought by the end. I think I felt like, in Racetrack's case, you really could make a major argument for it, and then Skulls wanting to follow her. But is being offered their freedom on a planet where they might get it any way really a decent compensation? Noel took it for redemption. Racetrack took it because she just... I can only imagine what it must be like for them to lose so much and just keep waking up every day to lose more. That's what made this premise so interesting to me- the Dollhouse tech in any other verse I'm familiar with never rouses any sympathy in me. In the BSG verse, I can see where it's got its upsides and its pluses.
After a while, it made my head hurt :) Thanks so much!
I am SO with you on Bill. It really bothered me that he executed Gaeta without a backwards thought, but when he told Helo "I've lost a son, you've lost a daughter"... I just lost all sympathy for him. I really did. And he used to be one of my favorite characters EVER. But his response to Helo just... I can't forget it.
Laura... I didn't hate her after the mutiny. But I also always thought she was more ruthless than Bill, and it struck me as a part of her character. But yeah, I can see where this one would bug people :) Although, to her credit, the things Laura had the Actives doing were genuine benefits to the Fleet. I can't really defend her with Felix, but I think it was an interesting dilemma with Racetrack and Narcho, who both volunteered (and Laura doesn't know that Narcho changed his mind at the last minute). If they volunteer, like Racetrack and Narcho, and if Laura is genuinely using them for the kinds of things she was doing, I think it becomes so much more morally gray.
What makes me sad is that Bill/Laura used to be my OTP of all time, before 4.5. ::Sigh:: But yeah, there are parts of this fic that are definitely intended to anger.
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I always disliked Laura, and it got worse as the series went on. I don't disagree that what the Actives were wasn't helpful or awesome, or even necessary, but...does having two (sort of) volunteers negate the fact that some of them aren't?. It's definitely a morally gray area, which I definitely enjoyed reading.
BUT LAURA AND BILL AUGH.
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After a while, it made my head hurt :) Thanks so much!
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