Long Rambley *Unedited Stream of Consciousness* Stuff on Genre Stories, Endings, and Answers

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Warning: Spoilers for BSG finale, very vague but possibly spoilerish LOST finale, Spoilers for Star Wars, and, oh hell, Buffy, Angel, Farscape, and the BtVS comics too So I've been thinking about the Lost finale (I know. But... I can't help it. Actually, I think it's a good sign that it's continued to intrigue me) and I've popped over to TWOP

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I think to me it matters how much did the story toy with the questions it raised? Did it stylize them to be of great importance? Because if it did, then I want some kind of answer.

I'm not going to lie and say that they didn't leave some significant plot threads dangling. I can think of three off hand that had no hard answer. But of those three, one doesn't bother me primarily because it hasn't been mentioned in years. It is, without a doubt, a dropped plot. However, I can pretty easily see how it would have worked into the ending had it not been dropped when the actor left/was let go. I can understand, with all the myriad of returning touchstones and long departed characters why this issue/character not being addressed irks people. That's legitimate, but since it was something that went away so long ago, I didn't have an urgent 'need to know.' It wasn't high on my priority list.

The second dropped plot is similar to the first. But, the truth is... I can kind of fanwank that one. Yes, it's fanwank. And if I had rewatched the episode that set the premise for it, I might consider it a shaky fanwank. But, I haven't rewatched that episode in years and the thread of it hasn't been mentioned in years, so with a fuzzy memory of the details I can fanwank it as misdirection and in that light, I can sorta consider it 'solved.' In the harsh light of day, I think it's a dropped plot thread, but if I look at it from a slightly different angle, I think it was obliquely addressed, though perhaps with a different answer than had been originally intended.

Third non-answer/big plot point, I actually think is really, really easily fanwanked. It's a rather deus ex machina answer, and I can see being irked by being handed a deus ex machina as an answer. But if you accept the deus ex machina that was offered, it's super easy to reach an answer to that question without any effort.