DPP: Daybreak

[winegums]

Today, March 20th, marks exactly three years since the airdate of Daybreak, Part 2, which ended both BSG and pilots canon story by leaving Shipper Nation in absolute ruin, devastation and disappointment.

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[workerbee73]

I was there. I lived it. O_o

A lot of drinking, my friend. LOTS. I think everyone kind of went through the stages of denial. First it was like-- wait, what just happened? And then there was kind of general shock and disbelief. And then came the rage. Lots and lots of rage.

As for working through it, I think having the community of like-minded people to discuss and commiserate with was key. (I don't think the term Shipper Nation came about until post-finale and really, there was an amazing amount of love and support and solidarity. Working through it in the early days was a total community effort.) And the fic. That was another, major way of getting past it. it still is.

As for how I feel about the finale, I still think it's an absolute pile of crap written the night before it was due and thrown together in a haphazard way and touting some kind of "If no one understands it, then it must be deep" high school logic. It really failed on just about every storytelling level imaginable, whether you give a damn about shipping or not.

[winegums]

o_0 indeed. Sometimes I go back into old sasa_hq threads and it almost breaks my heart how hopeful everyone was (or at least certain that we'd have a resolution one way or another, though one person had it spookily on the nose when they said - in 2008! - that Kara would probably vanish after her "task" was done).

I'm just so incredibly grateful to you guys for sticking around, though I can completely see how peeps might have wanted to be away from this mess afterwards. Even though I can live with many things about Daybreak and be ok with them (even the table), I wouldn't have recovered my joy in this show or these two amazing fictional people without a big metaphorical hug from fandom - and even with all that, I couldn't eat or sleep properly for about a week afterwards and still can't discuss pilots with non-shipper friends at all.

(but I won't lie, it made a HUGE difference knowing that I was not alone in how much this made me hurt - suffering alone = suffering more, in my case).

[thrace_adama]

THIS. Most especially this: As for how I feel about the finale, I still think it's an absolute pile of crap written the night before it was due and thrown together in a haphazard way and touting some kind of "If no one understands it, then it must be deep" high school logic. It really failed on just about every storytelling level imaginable, whether you give a damn about shipping or not.

It's been three years since I saw the finale and I'm STILL angry. Glad to have the distance from it, though. Still: Thank god for all our fellow shippers (and all their fanwork!).

[delle]

yup yup 3 yrs later and I'm *still* angry. I will never *not* be angry - we, as fans, deserved better, the actors deserved better, those two fictional characters that were connected since the VERY FIRST EPISODE deserved better.

I was a fan of La Femme Nikita, that ended nearly 10 years ago. I'm still angry about that one, too. I don't release my anger easily, apparently!

[winegums]

the actors deserved better, those two fictional characters that were connected since the VERY FIRST EPISODE deserved better.

SO MUCH TRUTH IN THIS. (and thank you for saying it)

[koolaidmom11]

I was a huge LFN fan too and although I felt that finale was a cop out it didn't feel like as much of a betrayal to me

[workerbee73]

I don't think the anger ever goes away. Rage on, my friend. :)