DPP: Meta me this
While sexytimes weekend is still going on right over here, daybreak777 reminded me that I was going to do a post about pilots meta!
So meta... not something we see a lot these days now that the show is over, but with BBC America starting to air it from the beginning (last night's episode was the first half of the mini) and so many new people to fandom, thought it might be a good topic for a post. Basically meta entries are usually just entries discussing the show or certain aspects of the show in great detail. Long essays about characterization or plot devices or themes.
Here are some of my favorite sources for pilots meta:
rawles is my meta queen y'all. She is funny, insightful, and manages to frame her arguments so convincingly that they always make me think after "HOW COULD I EVER HAVE THOUGHT OTHERWISE!" Here are just a few of my favorites by her:
Lee/Kara is OTP and Everything Else About BSG is Boring and Sucks
The Emperor is Bare-Ass Naked, Guys
Why Lee/Dualla is the Voldeship
In Which We Discover The Writing was On the Wall w/r/t Ron D. Moore's Feelings About Pilots
(Ok, I'm gonna stop myself though I swear it's worth paging through her journal just to read pretty much everything she ever wrote about pilots/bsg.)
This very weekend happens to be Lee Adama weekend at bsg_epics . pocochina has a very long pair of essays all about Lee's character, with some interesting and not often seen opinions (she believes Lee is a sufferer of depression throughout the series and his whole life): Part One and Part Two. (She has a lot more meta entries about all the characters (but mostly Lee) on her own LJ, right here.
Kara...probably not surprisingly, there isn't a ton of meta about Kara. (I find that Kara is like Fight Club in BSG fandom: the first rule seems to be that you don't talk about Kara. :( ) Luckily, wisteria_ has written tons of great meta, and many about our girl:
Kara, redemption, and sympathy (after NC)
Kara, character analysis
Kara and her harem
Kara, sexuality and tomcatting
You could fill oceans with the number of finale!hate meta posts on LJ. But this one espouses a view that many shippers do actually believe, despite the rest of the finale fate. bop_radar's She's not his frakking angel
Maybe my favorite ship manifesto of all time: workerbee73 's Best. Ship. Ever
and finally, my own essay about why pilots work so well: Nobody Told Me Battlestar Galactica was a Romance
Now what are some of YOUR favorite meta posts?