Dysfunctional Shipping Awareness Month, Days 6&7

[pocochina]

Have y'all missed my stabby pointer finger? I know I have! Adama-grade temper tantrum about some extremely disturbing topics below the cut.

Comments

[obsessive_a101]

I think, I'll with the cheating answer, and say "yes. both" to an interpretation of their reactions. I think both of them felt a lot of guilt, though very different reasons. Athena's guilt though is a bit less straightforward for me - there was definitely a lot of anger and frustration mixed in, and the writers took the easy out (and sometimes, I feel like Athena took the easy out) by killing Boomer. I understand that basically everyone was looking for clean-cut endings, but it would have been so much more interesting if they had gone the other way instead. And honestly, I'm not sure if Helo realizes, specifically, how skewed his relationship with Athena was as much as disappointed in himself for being tricked again. It harkens back a bit to his dilemma in The Hub, which, I think, was meant to throw him off and try to wake him up to the problems, and I was hoping them to face those problems. As adorable as "The Fighting Agathons" against the world could be in the darker times of the show, I think it would have been nice to, I don't know, have it not all be so peachy keen. Maybe a little doubt about what they were doing wouldn't have hurt? I would have understood the ship better, I think, if they chose to address the difficulties of it instead of sweeping it under the rug somewhere... :3

[pocochina]

I'm not sure if Helo realizes, specifically, how skewed his relationship with Athena was as much as disappointed in himself for being tricked again. It harkens back a bit to his dilemma in The Hub, which, I think, was meant to throw him off and try to wake him up to the problems, and I was hoping them to face those problems.

mmm. yeah. And I get the desire to have a "happy couple" in the narrative? But my ish is with the choosing this couple to be the happy couple.

[obsessive_a101]

LOL - interestingly enough, I don't think there were many canon possibilities for happy ships (I mean, in fandom, there are plenty of happy shipping, but within the BSG world was a lot of "being happy with living with what you have at the moment" sort of thing going for it I think...) Interestingly, a lot of the surviving happy couples are... not human-human (that we get to see). I'm not even sure if they did it deliberately. There's the Tighs and Caprica and Baltar... Well, at least, adorable?(^_^)"

*huggles Laura to me*