Comments | beccatoria: BSG: A Measure of Salvation.

beccatoria

BSG: A Measure of Salvation.

Nov 15, 2006 01:09

Hi guys. In about three hours (less than now...) I have to start my very long journey to the US for ten days. So I will be internet AWOL for the next ten days and still haven't caught up on half the email I should have or read half the awesome LJ posts. Hopefully I'll start getting caught up when I get back. Until then, BSG!

( The basestar subplot with Caprica!Six fading behind D'Anna, and me trying to work out what's missing. )

d'anna, bsg, genocide, caprica!six, helo, battlestar galactica

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sonofgodzilla November 15 2006, 13:56:36 UTC

Have a good holiday, guys!!!!!

beccatoria November 25 2006, 17:16:06 UTC

Thank you, we did! Will tell you all when we see you!

zepooka November 15 2006, 16:09:54 UTC

Gadzooks! You're coming to the States? :O

Come visit New Jersey! :P

beccatoria November 18 2006, 21:15:21 UTC

Err, I am coming to visit New Jersey. Emerson in Bergen County to be exact, because that's where my grandpa lives. I'm staying with him over thanksgiving. :)

projectcyborg November 16 2006, 03:43:53 UTC

I love your analysis of the genocide issue. yes yes yes. they didn't seem very interested in giving the idea a chance, in forcing us to give the idea a chance. it would have been much better if they'd actually done it and seen how the cylons reacted/retaliated, or at least took the presidential order seriously and investigated how it got sabotaged. but no, they have to move on to their next plot arc. *eyeroll ( ... )

beccatoria November 25 2006, 17:39:38 UTC

it would have been much better if they'd actually done it and seen how the cylons reacted/retaliated

Yes, very much so. If the cylons were literally fighting for their species survival as well, it would shed a new and interesting light on their actions and the way we judge them, as regardless of "who started it" they'd be more understandably desperate, as a species on the verge of extinction. Lots of chances for good confusion of boundries.

I see your point, and I can understand the controversy over her character, and why she might come across as less than complex.

See, actually I do think she's complex. That's why I'm interested in her. I find her deeply complicated (this not conflicting with having a fairly straight forward controlling personality; in fact, that makes it all the more interesting when that personality is thrown into crisis), I'm just not sure how to read her. It's the basic problem I have with the basestar subplot (which again, I love) - it's skimming. I have these glimpses of amazing depth, but they ( ... )

projectcyborg December 1 2006, 23:47:57 UTC

I listened to your Three song! I'm not very music enabled, but it was both lyrical and brutal and I can see how it would be inspiring. yay! in thinking about this, I realized how much Three I'm writing in the foreseeable future. two out of the three stories I have left in the epic are Three POV (Final Cut / Downloaded), and so are two more of the seven drabbles I'm doing. Three immersion!

BSG has been doing a LOT of "skimming" since late S.2 -- it's exasperating. the web of narratives has been growing and growing, and I feel like they've surpassed the point where they can actually do justice to that complexity within the limitations of the form. it is frustrating, because they got themselves into it -- S.3 is narratively irresponsible: they keep going for these big bombastic beats, without leaving time to actually work through their implications for the various characters.