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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[eternal_nomad1]

I am with Dave (ddt73). I steeled myself for a bad outcome, but what they did with both the story of the show at large and the ship surpassed my worst expectations.

I dealt with it initially by commiserating with the shippers on the Skiffy shipper thread. Then eventually I just let go. I wasn't going to let it get to me. What finally wrapped things up for me was the excellent fanfic "Signal fire". That is my personal canon and I am sticking to it.

http://mintenergy.livejournal.com/8220.html

I still read things from fandom occasionally and keep up with the friends I've made, but I have moved on. All things pass.

[winegums]

Thank you for the rec! I'm saving it for later, but anything that can unravel that ripoff ending is welcome.

It's only been a year for me, but I still can't let it go, and don't know if I ever will. Sometimes I wish I could get to that place, but I love this fandom too much - it's my favourite of all the ones I've ever been in, especially considering what canon threw at us.

[eternal_nomad1]

The writer wrote this as a way of getting over the ending and it works very well, imo.

I don't know if I would have gotten over this as quickly as I did if I didn't have the fandom friends to commiserate with. It really helped. Getting over it takes time, but for most people, I think life has a way of taking over.

But I don't think I'll ever enjoy a show as much as I did BSG. That ending was a huge breach of trust on a lot of levels and I don't think I'll ever completely trust a show again.

[workerbee73]

But I don't think I'll ever enjoy a show as much as I did BSG. That ending was a huge breach of trust on a lot of levels and I don't think I'll ever completely trust a show again.

Amen to this. And I think that's a common feeling amongst those who watched in real time. The investment level was so high and the emotions were so deep and then.... splat. As a result, I won't let myself get too involved in a show any more. Lesson learned. :/

[winegums]

That ending was a huge breach of trust on a lot of levels and I don't think I'll ever completely trust a show again.

Sadly, it's not confined to real-time watchers - this seems to be a very common feeling among all the people who watch it unspoiled, even now. I do think it's worse to wait YEARS for them to get a resolution and then be cheated out of one, tho.

To this day the only thing that has ever consoled me while I watch is - oddly - the look on Kara's face when she tells Lee she has to go. Girl looks on the verge of tears, but it makes me feel a tiny bit better than she wants to stay, even if I am cut up for her.

[workerbee73]

Man, the only way I can handle the poof is to be like "La, la la season 4 bullshit. Kara is totally still around somewhere, Lee just needs to find her."

That and their story never ends. And the next time around will be better. :)

[winegums]

I wish I could ignore canon totally, but whether it's just me or my conditioning, I just can't - I am a total whore for canon. So I put the best possible spin on it, not that it helps all that much, but I really, really believe she wanted to stay in that field.

*sigh* oh, pilots. Your words (as usual) say so little but your faces say SO MUCH.

[pennyante]

Two of my best friends watched it as it aired. I always had to avoid their apartment on BSG nights 'cause I thought... I don't know, I thought it was a very different show than it was. Hard to remember now.

They were shell-shocked. It went on for months. Everything was about making peace with the finale. They invented Zombie Laura Roslin and a lot of jokes about archaeological digs turning up the arrow of Apollo and... I don't know.

Now, that's me. My bf and I watched an episode every night for several months last spring and summer. I'd had parts of the ending spoiled for me. And it was still pretty traumatizing; my boyfriend won't even talk about it. I told him that today was the anniversary of the original finale and he was like, "I thought we agreed never to speak of that again."

I'm here 'cause I'm still getting over it. It's like a crowbar to the face punctuated with soft little kisses. Textbook abuse.

[koolaidmom11]

Your story...about after they landed...is one of the best ever

[pennyante]

Aww, thanks! You should hold back 'til it's over, though, just in case I ruin it. (I'll keep trying not to.)

[workerbee73]

No, I hear ya, and I'm not that much different... but let's just say I'm willing to allow for a lot out there that we did't see (it sounds nuts but totally makes sense in my head.)