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.

Comments

[rayruz]

Wow. Three years? Really? That's how long I've been stupidly in love with this show? Wow.

I think Kara's death actually took a while for me to even start to deal with. I remember the next day I woke up crying because Roslin was dead. I wasn't ready to face the fact that Kara was gone.

In my mind, I set it up like a scene out of Angel, in which a character comes back but turns out they never really came back... Is it still a spoiler a decade later? Anyways, turns out, this character had come back to set things straight with the last of her life... of course, it was a WAY more well done scene. But I sort of projected that onto Kara which made me feel a bit better about it. In fact, that whole Buffyverse concept of the Powers that Be, and the balance of good versus evil played into the end of my Buffy/BSG crossover in which I made Faith into a Pegasus viper pilot.

In the last year or so, my attitude has been "frak it, I do what I want" with my attitude towards canon, which means much less tears over no more Kara. Season 4 was silly anyways. I like my version of the story, which ends with them ending up in the Firefly universe. :)

[winegums]

Hmmm, I know the character you're talking about, even though I'd long given up on the show by that point. And post-Daybreak, I couldn't process all my feelings and wrote a long and messy essay about what I thought, but I'm amazed and grateful to people like you who channelled the heartbreak into continuing involvement with fandom. (and OMG, Whedonverse/BSG crossovers? Why have I read so few of those?)

[rayruz]

I... never gave up on Angel. I just... season 4 was a supernatural soap opera and season 5 was pure crack. :)

Have you read mine? I can't remember if you have or not.

[winegums]

You are made of sterner stuff than me, then. I always liked the supporting characters on Angel more than I liked the man himself, and after she left I gave up (and Pete Campbell will always be Connor to me, now. Always. lol)

And I don't think I have read the Firefly crossover, there is no way I'd forget two of my favourite tv shows colliding :). I have read Did I Fall Asleep though, and gushed about it all over the place (though surprisingly, not at the actual comments - I promise to fix that situation as soon as I have a nice chunk of time to re-read it properly and love it all over again).

[rayruz]

Out of the Black - This is the Firefly one, the signal Kara's viper picks up in Revelations turns out to be coming from Serenity

Scars that Words have Carved - this is the Faith the Cylon Slayer one. :) Faith's a pilot on Pegasus who gets shipped over to Galactica for being a pain in Fisk's ass. Needless to say, she and Kara spark in a dangerous sort of way.

These both deal with my issues with the finale in different ways. OotB is a fixit on the themes of Season 4 and the Serenity movie. STWHC uses the idea of Champions for the Powers and the First in the BSGverse.

/shameless self promotion

[winegums]

uuuuggghhhh WHY am I on deadline week right now, bookmarking those for a less crazy time right away. (BSG/Firefly? I love that and I haven't even read it yet)