Fic: Infinite Regress (The Origin Stories Remix) [BSG, for bsg_remix]

[pellucid]

Title: Infinite Regress (The Origin Stories Remix)
Author: pellucid
Summary: She was a prophet, and prophets are always special.
Characters: Pythia, Athena (the Lord of Kobol)
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Beta Thanks: gabolange, as always!
Author Notes: 1600 words. A remix of Twilight of the Idols by nnaylime, written for bsg_remix (2009). Originally posted here; I'm

Comments

[pellucid]

Once again, I'll say thank you! ;)

I always found the idea of Kobol and whatever happened there to be one of the most fascinating and compelling parts of the show. I was so convinced, back when I (stupidly, as it turned out) thought that the endgame of the mytharc was actually going to make sense, that it would all come back to the lynchpin of Kobol and Athena and the Book of Pythia, that "Home, part 2" was the thematically pivotal episode of the series. Well, shows what I get for thinking, I suppose, but in some ways I'm just as glad they didn't touch it because by not touching it they didn't turn it into something disappointing, and now I still get to play in this playground.

As far as the actual Athena, the Greek god, is concerned, I don't know that I've ever felt very strongly one way or the other about her. I do, however, think she's a wonderfully evocative figure for the BSG 'verse, and I love the way there's so much space for overlap between the Athena of our world, and the Athena who died on Kobol, and Sharon Agathon, and even Laura Roslin, in some ways. I like the way things fit, yet aren't exact--it makes it all deliciously messy and evocative. And that's what I always thought this show was best at, in its prime, and it was perhaps the evocative messiness that I grieved most at the end.