Finished with Battlestar Galactica: This is a Feels Post! (s3-4)

[sherrilina]

This past Sunday night/early Monday morning I finished watching BSG for the first time, almost two weeks after I began it! I am still filled with many thoughts and feels right now that I need to express. I'm glad I finished during a 3-day weekend so that I had time to finish watching and then have a day after to ~process~ it all, and explore fandom

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Re: (Broken up b/c of character limit..oops)

[sherrilina]

But I've always LOVED that scene from a writing and acting standpoint. IMO there were a lot of fears that the show was overly agreeing with his religion in season 4 and justifying him, and I didn't think it was doing that AT ALL....to the point where he basically *invented a religion to make it not his fault*.

Ok cool, thanks for explaining...while I felt exasperated about him saying he had NO guilt NOW (though I liked him admitting his earlier guilt at least), I did love the scene as a whole because OMG BALTAR VS. ROSLIN EPICNESS. The climax of their fascinating yet rocky relationship, of her never-ending quest to get him to admit to guilt and find out what really happened. And then when she did save him and he was like, "Thanks, I love living", as seen in your recent picspam on Tumblr...<333 One of the highlights of season 4 for me, the eye-rolling aside. I was worried/alarmed for a minute there, but of course he would survive, as always, the cockroach. :p The whole "inventing his own religion to make it not his fault" is a great way of putting it though, I think that does help. (From rational scientist to crazy religious cult leader, what a journey!)

Also that food distribution/guns subplot seemed like it could be setting up something bigger at the time (like his group being an actual militant force) and then fizzled out, but looking back I do get what they *meant* to do there. The cult was growing much stronger in power and popularity, so the fact he breaks away from them in the end means he's *actually giving up something* and not just cutting loose a tiny group of crazy people.

Ah that is a good point, and makes more sense...you should write that meta! :)

Yep. It's the problem of a divine-intervention arc running up against a personal-growth arc. ;) Gaius had to choose that for himself (and kinda for Caprica) and not just be following her anymore, or it wouldn't be as meaningful story-wise.

True...I feel like Head!Six (as an angel) was perhaps telling him to get off the ship, but hoped (in terms of the divine plan) that he would choose to stay (fulfilling his ~destiny). Kind of like in Pan's Labyrinth if you've seen that, where the Faun tells her to do one thing but in defying him she was actually passing the test. I was glad that it was his decision (showing personal growth, yay!) in the end....showing there were some choices and free will involved, despite complaints about it all being too divinely ordained or whatnot.

Though in terms of Head!Six's urgings earlier to get into politics, it seemed like Gaius wasn't even really interested in all that but for her pushing...but I guess the Cylon occupation was part of the big plan? :s

I always wished they brought that into his storyline more after it was repeatedly foreshadowed in season 1-2.

I think that is why I ultimately love season 1 and 2 more, because they do set all that up so well, but then kind of drop the ball on it and fail to follow through until the very end...:/ I was so scared he wouldn't stay at all (when he didn't cross the line in the end of Daybreak Pt. 1), making all of the Hera stuff in his storyline earlier pointless--I actually almost didn't want to watch Daybreak Pt. 2 at that point...:(

And thanks again for the stream upload, it did work in that format! :D