BSG 4.20 - "Daybreak II"

[wisteria_]

Is anyone still in the mood to read meta? :) While I'm still not as (understandably) frustrated as many of my friends, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. So, as always, I've tried to sort out my thoughts by writing ridiculously long meta -- this one clocks in at almost 6,000 words. Yikes!

Comments

[zorb]

I enjoyed reading this. I think I'm happier with it than you were, but it's nice to see criticism without violent ranting. :-) Agreed about the lack of major deaths in the battle; I was shocked at how many of the main cast made it out alive.

On Kara (of course), I don't think they necessarily deemed her an angel. Baltar said that because he was already on his angels kick, but the canon doesn't actually confirm angel, ghost, Aurora, space alien double (heh), or any other thing. The Aurora interpretation is still perfectly valid, IMO.

[wisteria_]

Glad that we're (mostly) on the same page here! I totally understand the violent ranting. Many fans are very upset, and for very good reasons. I just can't quite push myself to that place, perhaps because my frustrations with the finale are mitigated by the overall *love* I feel for the show.

Good point re: the lack of specificity with regards to the angel thing. Aurora is a plausible option, and I think I'll just stick with that one because it seems to fit her best. *sigh*

[thirteenthchime]

I've been avoiding most Battlestar commentary because I'm not okay with the ending, and I've been trying to tell myself I'm okay and I just didn't want to be angry about it anymore

[wisteria_]

I'm really actually pleased that it turned out as well as it did...until I start to think about it some more. Then I get angry again. It's a vicious cycle.

Oh, I know what you mean. When I thought about my varying reactions, I decided that it provided a generalized sense of emotional closure -- the show is over, and the characters have gone on to something else, either happy or tragic -- but that closure really falls apart once I start thinking about it. Grr.

You're right that way too much of the finale (and really, many points throughout the series) were constructed for that Big Shocking Moment, without any logical setup or follow-through. I can accept that because this is a serialized narrative drama, but not when it's at the expense of characters I love.

Whatever, like you said, this show gave us Kara.

Yeah. I'm just going to keep on remembering that. Sigh.

[effervescent]

I liked the dynamic between Ellen and Saul, though it's obviously retcon; how would they get from that to him burning her photo in the Mini?

I've always assumed - even before it was revealed that Ellen was a Cylon - that that was because he thought that she was dead, not because of any acrimony between the two of them. It seems like something that Tigh would do.

I've really enjoyed reading your thoughts - I have to echo zorb, it's nice to see criticism without ranting or all caps. :P

[wisteria_]

Glad you liked this absurdly long post! :) I do agree that the photo thing was in part because he assumed she was dead, but it does seem like there was some definite acrimony there... mixed with a whole lotta love. Volatile relationships often play out that way, and it really does fit what we've seen of the Tighs.

[jeebs83]

Great read, but MAN, I'm still in the Anger phase. I can't get over what RDM did to the Starbuck character AND to his lame-ass "Kara and Lee never got off that table" excuse. It was piss-poor storytelling, plain and simple.

[wisteria_]

Oh, definitely, and it's just so damned frustrating because their relationship was so much MORE than simple sexual tension and denied opportunities. I wish RDM hadn't kept his perception of them on that level, leaving us to fill in the blanks or handwave it away.

[wickedgillie]

I'm glad you're at a point you're able to write meta. I'm still not there yet, and that's with me havin suspected that Kara couldn't stay. I just didn't think she'd poof like that right after having her character assasinated.

I promise I'll have more substantial thoughts soon; I have early meetings tomorrow and I really need to go to bed asap.

[wickedgillie]

Apparently, reading your meta before bed did me a world of good. I woke up just before dawn with a serious plot bunny in my head that dragged my ass out of bed and demanded that the outline at least be written down before it went away. It's like everything crystalized and I know how to fix RDM's mess.

[wisteria_]

Oh, good! Sometimes fic is the best (or only) way to cope. *sigh*

[wickedgillie]

I just hope I can do it justice. I fic so irregularly these days and I've only done one BSG fic previously. Might as well toast this fandom with an epic, eh?

(3 parts plus an epilogue for me is an epic since I'm typically a one-shot girl, lol)