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[sunshine_queen]

So, I've decided that I want to talk about the finale, and by "talk about the finale and its one year anniversary," I mean, "I want to talk about where our little chickadees are one year later." So!

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[lady_padme]

You do realize that this future of which you speak is far too rosy for RJM, don't you?

Also, who's Sonja?

[sunshine_queen]

Bah! Moore left them alone so that they could all have happy lives!

Sonja is the platinum Six who was the Cylon representative in the quorum, and who is all-around awesome.

[imelda72]

Gaius is totally king of the farmers. But...

I'd like to think he reacts to this with dignity and grace

Really? C'mon, now. Where's the fun in that??

For myself, I'm sort of with lady_padme up there. I don't like to imagine them happy 1 year later. It somehow feels right to me that they ultimately die off, leaving no genetic traces except for Helo/Hera/Athena, with only the faintest and most random influences in our cultures today. It's a little grim, as RJM likes, so it fits in with BSG as a show. It's also poignant and plausible.

It's also important to me that they keep being the people they've been throughout the show. That means guided by selfish desires or unique worldviews, making lots of mistakes, and just struggling along trying to achieve their dreams and make the best of a difficult world. BSG is just life.

Um....I'm really sorry if that was a downer. I guess weird things make me happy.

[sunshine_queen]

As horrifying as I find you everything you said, that still doesn't mean it would've happened in one year

[imelda72]

Oh, dear. I don't mean I envision them miserable a year later. I meant that I don't like to picture them living happily ever after, all problems resolved, with perfect lives on earth. When I say that BSG is life, it's because, like life, their story is all about struggle--which I think is a beautiful thing. Not struggling as pain, but struggle as striving for something through obstacles. Struggling to achieve their dreams, and struggling to get along with one another and work around their differences. If I have to picture their lives on Earth, then I like to think that Ellen is still stirring up trouble, Lee is still trying to make things right, and so on and so forth

[sunshine_queen]

But what I find interesting is what you're describing as a struggle- that is what I pictured. What I listed were the highlights of my thoughts on it- the fun things I'd like to imagine for my babies in this brand new land, much like what you'd address in a Christmas card. But their lives, their striving to make a go of it, Lee frakking up and Ellen being a brain ninja, Gaius being a goof- that's all part and parcel of it. I find it so fascinating that despite the fact that we have a lot of the same ideas, I phrase it as "living the dream" and you use "struggle."