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daily post: Therapy

Apr 09, 2012 21:52

It's been a while since we've done a group therapy post! But we're three years post-unfortunate-incident, so let's compare how you're feeling today (about Laura or about the series) to how you were feeling three years ago (either pre- or post-Daybreak ( Read more... )

we love laura, we cried a lot

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plaid_slytherin April 10 2012, 03:32:35 UTC

Caveat: I didn't watch the show as it aired. The first time I watched Daybreak, I sobbed basically the entire time because I loved this show SO much and I didn't want it to end. I was a mess. But I'm not sure how much of this was specifically about Laura's death. For one thing, while I liked Laura well enough, she wasn't an omgfavorite. However, when I rewatched it a little while ago, her death still didn't make me cry. I would say that it was because I know she lives on in fic (and she'll certainly never die in anything I write, I'm sure) but I bring Kara back from the poof all the damn time and I still cried when she vanished. And I like Laura more.

So, I guess I'm weird! Fandom has made me really like Laura a lot more and so I think about her more now than I did when I had first finished the show. I imagine I'm approaching this backwards.

astreamofstars April 10 2012, 08:04:27 UTC

I suspect Laura's death is too connected with A/R in your mind for you to feel strong feelings about it, because you're less seeing it as just her death, and more about her and Bill going off together and leaving Saul, maybe? And that's why you get less sad about it, because you're kinda blocking it out? Possibly?

plaid_slytherin April 10 2012, 11:27:34 UTC

Oh, it definitely highlights some of the things I hate most about S4, in particular how it makes her death all about him and the lack of personal interaction between Bill and Saul (if he's not coming back - not that I buy this - why didn't he say goodbye? They have nothing after Saul is revealed as a Cylon and I'm not sure how to take that.)

I do cry during the scene with Cottle, but Laura's death leaves me cold, perhaps because at the time, I am overwhelmed by the urge to smack Bill.

So, yes, I adore Daybreak but I'd rather forget most of the very end.

marzipanilla April 10 2012, 04:31:49 UTC

I curled up and watched all of BSG last fall in a very short period of time, and now that I've had more time for some episode rewatches (I'm also going through the whole thing with a friend who is new to it) I'm having an interesting time of things ( ... )

treeofstars April 10 2012, 06:16:50 UTC

I was just discussing this with another fan recently.

Ever since I started The Last Resurrection, I'm okay with Daybreak. In my mind, she is resurrected and reunited with Bill soon after. And no one can tell me otherwise, because the show ended!! :P

Sometimes I think it's silly that I ignore canon, and also an insult to the choices made and story given to us by the creators. But I did embrace it when I saw it originally, and then I let it go for something more favorable. Writing her alive and well on Earth (2) is more therapy for me now than anything else.

lytab5 April 10 2012, 07:41:35 UTC

Overall, I think I've come to terms with Laura's death.
Although I have to admit that she is still frequently on my mind. May it be the occasional thought, a reference in a TV show I'm watching or a talk with a colleague I had recently; I'm still reminded of Battlestar Galactica and Laura Roslin quite often.
Especially mixed with feelings of longing for a character similar to her on my current TV schedule. (Nothing compares, really.)
And sometimes, when I stumble upon the occasional tumblr post or someone posts a music video featuring her death, it can still hit me. And make me cry. (Gods, this seems sappy. Madame President would totally airlock me for being emo.)

That being said: I have not watched "Daybreak" again since it first aired. I just... don't want to, yet, I think.
I do want to re-watch the whole show at some point soon (seeing as I finally own all seasons on DVD; frakking slow German DVD distribution) - but that's more for later this year, I think.

astreamofstars April 10 2012, 08:02:42 UTC

I actually do still cry about her, and not always just about her death. Which is weird, yes. I think something about her managed to tap into something fairly deep in me that brings up all my emotions when I think about her. I dunno whether partly it's not about her and she just represents other things that get me emotional, but she's certainly the only thing I can think that ever gets me that way. It's a very odd experience.

Weird things can set me off. I had iTunes playing on random yesterday, and that piece of music from the miniseries that plays when it's almost over and they are all trying to settle into a new life came on? And that made me emotional because I suddenly started thinking how that was the first moment they'd all had to deal with everything that happened without a crisis and how Laura might have been feeling right at that moment. Music can set me off a lot. Daybreak does, Faith does, other odd scenes do. Fic does. Sometimes just random quotes or pictures do. I have that poster of her in the fountain up on my wall, ( ... )