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beccatoria

BSG: The Plan

Oct 21, 2009 18:29

So. The Plan. I has seen it.

Basically my thoughts can be summed up like this:

What a lovely collection of deleted scenes. What a truly weird movie.

My only hope for this thing was that it not wreck anything. And basically it didn't.

THE GOOD.

( THE GOOD: Boomer. )

bsg, the plan, love outlasts death, simon & punk six woulda fixed this flick, dude where's my plot, battlestar galactica

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sabaceanbabe October 21 2009, 20:18:33 UTC

I enjoyed reading your review and it crystalized something in my mind: Jane Espenson wrote us a huge, translated to film, fanfic. She wrote filler fic. And in that vein, I really did enjoy most of it. But yes, it would have been so much better and more a self-contained unit like Razor, if she had let it focus on one or two characters and let us see what was happening through those characters' eyes to keep everything in the context of the original episodes. I loved Simon's story and the relationship between him and Gianna. The relationship between Gianna and Tyrol worked well for me, too. And Punk!Six was fabulously bitter and I'd love to know what happened to her in those two years of prep for genocide to make her that way.

I was genuinely shocked when Cavil stabbed the little boy. Totally didn't see that coming, although I knew something would happen. Which means that there really wasn't enough set up for that specific murder. Was it a mercy killing? Was a temper tantrum? Was it completely cold and impersonal? Jealousy ( ... )

beccatoria October 24 2009, 21:05:31 UTC

Ha! Yes! What a great way to put it. This was great filler fic but...a plot would have been useful to make it an entry to a bigbang challenge ( ... )

gonzo21 October 21 2009, 22:15:59 UTC

Of course this only took us about half way through events. If that. We didn't even reach New Caprica. So perhaps Punk!Six walks straight out the door, and into The Plan 2...

beccatoria October 24 2009, 21:11:12 UTC

AHAHAHAAHA! Oh god please no... ;)

I think the reason they stopped then was that in S3 we started to actually get the cylon perspective much more, though ironically as I said above, I would have loved to see Gianna's reaction to the occupation of New Caprica...

gonzo21 October 25 2009, 10:19:45 UTC

At current rate the Plan 2 should just be all about the hardcore sekx.

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beccatoria October 24 2009, 21:12:39 UTC

Yeah, I liked Cavil anyway, but I appreciated that The Plan tried to make him more complex rather than reducing him to a scenery chewing villain which I admit I was somewhat concerned about. And "love is unavoidable" is totally more interesting than "love conquers all". :)

asta77 October 22 2009, 04:33:18 UTC

there is some evidence based on a propworx auction that the Six talking to Boomer about the wonderful new life she's about to embark on is Gina and that, actually, is an idea so perfect I don't have words for it. Probably the most broken and brilliant retcon in the entire thing; shame it wasn't clearerI agree, it's a cool idea, but the hair is throwing me. Didn't she have Tricia's naturally long hair? That makes me think it's a random Six, but why have a random Six? I'm so confused ( ... )

beccatoria October 24 2009, 21:33:38 UTC

Yeah, I think she had the longer hair too, but it's too cool an idea to throw away on hair, dammit! So I'm going to assume that maybe Gina actually cut her hair before her mission or something? I mean this looked like it was on the same plane as the Boomer flashbacks from Daybreak which would be several years before the attacks (and also tallies with the slim prop evidence; a Gina costume sold and described as being used in a scene with Boomer in Daybreak). We know that Athena's hair grew while she was in the brig, for instance, and then she cut it shorter again later. Could it simply be that since Gina's hair was basically Tricia's natural hair, if Tricia's hair was longer at the time of filming they just went with it? After all it was tied back and we've never seen any other Six tie back their hair either. /Obsessive Hair Detectivery!

Love dooming the Cylon plan and the lack of love dooming poor Liam are both products of Jane Espenson.WHUT LIAM IS STILL ALIVE! *sticks fingers in ears and starts singing ( ... )

selenak October 22 2009, 17:16:36 UTC

re: John - my own theory is that he's actually a projection by Cavil. Because no one but Cavil ever sees him, because John is the name Ellen gave him, because he says his parents are alive and don't want him. He's basically what Cavil really is emotionally, a sullen child, but Galactica!Cavil is in denial about that and symbolically kills him off.

beccatoria October 24 2009, 21:36:01 UTC

Ooooh, interesting. I really like that idea. I must think about it more...