3 Months and Counting. The Daybreak Rage is Still Strong With This One.

[mintenergy]

Quick thought.

Someone requested that I vid Kara to a Shiny Toy Guns song I'd never heard before and I adore the song and think it's perfect so I took on the challenge and began compiling clips last night and I'm embarrassed to admit that Kara Thrace's story arc when seen as a whole still makes my eyes hot and I feel suspiciously as if I might still

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[somewhereapart]

Y'know, for me the rage was mild when I saw the finale. I was just kind of "I'm sorry WHAT??" and a little in shock. Of course, that may have had something to do with the fact that I crash-coursed BSG and watched the entire series in about 3 weeks, so I had a slightly different level of emotional investment. I think I'd have been LIVID if I'd been a longtime fan. And the more I go back and rewatch, the angrier I get about it.

I guess I can kind of see the idea that she fought so long and so hard and everything SUCKED and now she gets to go, like, frolic in the elyssian fields or something, but... Ugh. Let the woman LIVE finally.

Also, read this: http://chaletian.livejournal.com/367006.html Pretend its canon. It'll ease the ache a little. lol

[mintenergy]

I waited for three years for this character to get her happy ending. I'm thinking I'll be ragey for some time to come.

Let the woman LIVE finally.

Precisely!

Also, read this: http://chaletian.livejournal.com/367006.html Pretend its canon. It'll ease the ache a little. lol

I read that this morning. It was really sweet, I enjoyed it.

[somewhereapart]

Rage on, my friend. In this case, I think it's well-earned.

[mintenergy]

Aw, well. I appreciate fellow shippers like you. I need to focus on the good like that and forget all the rest. Watching daybreak scenes just make me so unhappy.

[ecstaticdance]

Rant away! I'm 30,000+ words into my own therapy for seasons 3 and 4... I'm rewatching them for the sake of my fic, and honestly, the more I watch the more the barriers that got thrown up around Kara and between Kara and Lee seem completely contrived. Makes me feel cranky if I dwell on it for too long.

[mintenergy]

-30,000 words is a lot of therapy! I never cease to be impressed by the people in this fandom and their creativity

-Why friend, why? Hindsight is 20/20. Everything looks so different now that we know the outcome, right? Keeping K/L apart was utter contrived nonsense just like all the rest of the plot threads that were left out hanging.

-I'm feeling pretty cranky about this today, oh yes I am.

[ecstaticdance]

- Yes, 30,000 words is a lot. And I'm only about half done (I hope I'm about half done?)

- I have two possible, inexcusable explanations for it. 1) RDM & Co. wanted to tell more story than they were given the time to tell, but didn't realize it until too late and then did a sloppy job closing out as many threads as they could, leaving the rest to dangle. 2) RDM & Co. got bored with their story and started throwing random stuff at it to see what would stick.

Either would be excusable for an amature, these people are supposed to be professionals, dammit! (insert petulant foot stomp)

[arielmoondance]

I agree with everyone and everything said here. I am still stabby over the finale and I wonder when I will get over it already. :(

[mintenergy]

I feel like a loon sometimes. Out of nowehere I'll just get so simultaneously MAD and weepy....and then it passes and time and RL goes on. *hugs my fellow shipper*

[innibis]

It wasn't just Kara's ending. Her ending, along with Adama, Laura and Lee's, was really symbolic to the overall, completely offensive message that it was God's Will that humanity was exterminated and, as such, totally deserved. I don't even like Laura or Adama, but she died and he presumably died sitting on a hill, Kara poofed and Lee was left abandoned by the only people he cared about to wander the earth alone. The people who gave up the most to guard and protect humanity were ultimately punished for being the guardians of race that was, apparently, unfit to survive.

And I do love Gaius, but to show the scene where he gives the codes to Caprica and then flash forward immediately to them being rewarded for doing God's will of obliterating billions of people? It is disgusting. So I guess I'm saying is that I'm offended on a much greater level then by the story arc of an individual character. It was just indicative of the arrogant and unforgiving nature ofthe creator.

[mintenergy]

I know to simply say "THIS" is rather contrived and overused on the internetz these days but every now and again a comment like yours comes along and is so completely spot on and in line w/ how I feel that I just have to type:

THIS.

So very well said.

[innibis]

Thanks - I have residual show anger, which brings out my inherent snottiness.:)

[eternal_nomad1]

This post, This. Every time I think about it, it just makes me so angry that after all the fighting and the struggling to survive, to preserve society and democracy, all the decent characters end up either dead or as genetic material. I can't get over it and I don't think I ever will. So no rewatch for me. Not anytime soon, and probably not ever.

As far as Kara's ending...Rage on, I am right there with you. She was, to me at least, the best female character in the history of television. And to put her through hell, rob her of free will, kill her, then bring her back, and not let her enjoy the rewards of her struggle is just wrong. On so many levels. This isn't art. It's sloppy, lazy writing with a good dose of misanthropy thrown in,

[amaliak]

Really, the only way she could have suffered more is if this was a Jossverse.

I know what you mean about feeling too much about a fictional character. I don't remember being this invested in one of them in a long long time. Damn you, RDM! Damn you Katee for being such an amazing actress!
Although, I will say that Jaime Bamber's French interview says a lot about all of that.....I had to watch it twice because I spent the first viewing going "ZOMGHESPEAKSFRENCHITHINKIMIGHTDIE!!!".

Embarrassing, I know.

For whatever reason, when I think of BSG, I think of Snow Patrol's "Somewhere a clock is ticking". Haha.
Loser, party of one?

*hugs*
cheers.
--Lex

[mintenergy]

Really, the only way she could have suffered more is if this was a Jossverse.

Heh. Fair enough.

I don't remember being this invested in one of them in a long long time. Damn you, RDM! Damn you Katee for being such an amazing actress!

Me either, yes, damn him and she was a little too amazing for her own good.

I will say that Jaime Bamber's French interview says a lot about all of that.....I had to watch it twice because I spent the first viewing going "ZOMGHESPEAKSFRENCHITHINKIMIGHTDIE!!!".

I must have missed this. He speaks French, as well? Why must he feed my obesession with his amazing self like that?

For whatever reason, when I think of BSG, I think of Snow Patrol's "Somewhere a clock is ticking".

An apt BSG theme song at this point. Except the blast? Not so beautiful. Damn finale.

No, bb. Loser party of two. ;-)

[amaliak]

Parlez vous francais? Jamie Bamber does...

About BSG....I just try to remind myself that it could be worse. Like, WAY worse. It could be the end of "Dr Horrible" or, OMGDIDYOUWATCHSERENITY??????

Yeah. At least her disappearance was peaceful. How did you feel about Maelstrom, btw? Because I sitll am not as upset as I was about that. Because that was AWFUL. Like, 20 times more awful than Daybreak (for me anyway).

[mintenergy]

Parlez vous francais? Jamie Bamber does...Thank you for that link. GUH. That man continues to tempt me to become a crazed fangirl of epic proportions. The absolute perfection must cease and desist or I cannot be held responsible for my actions