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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[apodixis]

Although I could have done without the poof (obviously! that's why I'm here and write/read fic with everyone here), I did really like the end of the show. I've gotten into so many arguments with family members over the end. Some are like: "Well they should've kept the ships! Why wouldn't they want to live out of them!? How are these people going to rough it on their own?" I get that part... but my counter is always: "If you were stuck in a cramped ship with horrible living conditions for over 4 years, never knowing if you were going to live or die, and witnessing the deaths of friends and family all around you--wouldn't you jump at the chance to live in nature on that beautiful planet?" No one ever really agrees with me... but I don't think the show should have ended any other way. They tried the "living with the fleet" thing on New Caprica and that sucked, hardcore. To end the show on a note like that would've just been a repeat and recycling of the NC plot. Might as well have ended at the end of season 2. Earth, and starting over though... it felt like an end. The more "poetic" end as I usually describe it.

As for Kara and Lee specifically, well, we've got fic. In my own canon head for the finale and despite how atheist I am, I like to believe that when Lee finally does die, Kara's waiting for him on the other side and they get their peace together in the end. Part of me doesn't think Lee would last long on Earth, though. I think he'd try to fill his life with helping the people of wherever he ends up settling, but I don't see him ever finding someone new to replace Kara, and to a lesser extent, Dee. Eventually, it's too much for him, and I think he'd end up taking his life to try to see if he could find Kara a little sooner.

[winegums]

You know, I actually agree with a lot of what you said, - of course sunlight, fresh air and soil are probably going to seem entirely worth it to people who've spent years and years in metal boxes with no hope that they'll ever make it out. I can live with most of the finale, to be honest - when I first watched it Daybreak really did seem like a fittingly epic, emotional end to the show, and I'm another one of those who hangs on to Kara's "see you on the other side" in Maelstrom with a complete death grip because the poof CANNOT be the absolute end for both of them. Even canon implies it's not necessarily the end when she dies, and nothing can shake my belief in that.

My rage over the poof is mostly for Kara, to be honest - I hate, hate, HATE the message that she was basically secondary to her "task" all along and didn't even have the right to exist when she finished it, because she's been dead all along (and so she had to die to get to carry out the task in the first place? Which means that there's no way our girl can live at all?) and I really resented the way she got turned into some mystical figurehead in the end.

And then, of course, there are is the Epilogue of Dancing Robots. Which just makes me want to start laughing hysterically because it is so much crack, and not even in the good way.