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[beccatoria]

DANIEL?

Dude. It would be too creepy if Kara's father was number seven and named Daniel Thrace (not to mention, why didn't Kara have a stronger reaction to hearing the name) since I wrote that frakking story with no spoiler information.

But like...why else bring up the Sevens as artists? I'm worried it's just a retcon to explain why there are no sevens and that Daniel was a nonstarter. But it sort of sounded like maybe they never got beyond the prototype before John nuked the line, but the prototype was okay?

But then, it makes the Nicky retcon doubly pointless if Kara is also like Hera. Which makes me wary of declaring victory.

Man, I will be so impossibly disappointed if this isn't true now: curse you show!

Although (while I never considered the whole "travel at exactly lightspeed" slowing time thing nor a lot of the stuff about where the downloading came from) I do consider at least some amount of moral victory that I did speculate correctly that the Final Five made the other models in an attempt to stop history from repeating itself and frakking up supremely.

Now I just need confirmation that the hybrid is sekritly changing reality (no, not even I expect to get that one!) and I'll be satisfied. :p

Oh, and that Kara has never happened before, that would be cool too.

Final brief thought, I still hate John Cavil but I LOVED him here. He's fascinating and brilliant. Clearly he wiped all the other copies of their memories of the five.

NO RLY. If Daniel is Daniel Thrace I...will not have words for how awed/freaked out I will be.

REALLY. SHOW YOU SHOULD NOT TEASE ME LIKE THIS. IT IS CRUEL.

Comments

[nightxade.livejournal.com]

DUDE WaIT? You made up the name Daniel??? I was all "WAHA BECCA WAS RIIIIIGHT!" Also, I finally had an explanation for why the Cylons couldn't bloody well count. 1-6, 8 and the Final Five had no numbers? Hello! Was there no Sesame Street in the Colonies?

As for Kara, still going on the assumption that you were right, didn't she shut Sam up right after he spoke Daniel's name? And Sam said they were all glowing? I thought she was doing that to prevent her discovery. And so I was thinking that Leoben knew Kara was a hybrid? Or maybe she's not a hybrid (cuz the others would know too?) but Daniel was a part of her life and had a strong effect?

I was troubled by the fact that there was no human representative present as the Cylons learned their history and therefore the history of the war with the Humans.

I liked Cavel too as the angry child -- and loved what he did to the FF and how he was involved with them in some significant way as they made their way to Galactica and the fleet -- but I'm still a bit thrown that not only is Ellen one of the FInal Five, but she's the frakkin' Borg Queen.

Hurray for Boomer figuring it out. GO free will!

I'm a bit annoyed that there was no indication of the social aftermath of the mutiny other other than Adama's refusal to initially allow the use of Basestar tech to save Galactica, which I assumed was not merely out of a wish not to taint her since he had intended to taint all the ships with Basestar FTL upgrades. I know there is limited time to tell the final story, but we can't skip over important bits, people!

Gah. And no preview for next week this time! WTF!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

I sure hope you can claim victory. I want someone victorious about this show. But it kinda kills the suspense for me. Kara's father? Okay. It was so much info given in such a short period of time.

Dean Stockwell was fascinating with Cavil, I do have to say. I was totally captivated by his rage. :-) This being is the reason 12 planets were nuked. (Other than a repeating destiny too.) I love that he is a totally irredeemable child. This may sound weird but he embodies what I like about Cylons. Their potential and desire to be more and to be not human. It was such a relief to hear someone express it. He was as frustrated as I was, 'Why did you make me this way?'

I always like responding to your reviews. Writing this made me find something I liked in this ep! And I hope victory is yours!

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I thought exactly the same thing when they said that Daniel was an artist. Of course, I was pulling for Socrata Thrace to be the final Cylon because it hits my Kara-as-Achilles kink, (and she also would have been a female counterpart to Tigh), so I'm not really to be trusted here. ;)

[grav-ity.livejournal.com]

As soon as they said "Daniel" I FREAKED THE FRAK OUT, and I was in COMPANY WHO DIDN'T UNDERSTAND and I was all "OMG, SHE'S GOING TO FLIP! I CAN'T WAIT!" It was AWESOME.

[pellucid.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! YOU MADE THAT UP????????? I figured it was somewhere in a backstory whatever thingie and was all freaking out that MAYBE YOU WERE RIGHT OMG!!!! But if it was really some weird brain-sharing thing where you right and you and the show BOTH HAD THE SAME NAME, I WILL FREAK THE FUCK OUT!!!!!

I was also having the thought that maybe Kara is the daughter of Daniel and Ellen--y/n? The whole thing where they were "very close" and all that.

I'm still processing actual episode thoughts, but DUDE!!!! I'm a happy girl-who-loves-meta right now!!!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Nice call, Chica. When I was watching and Kara got all excited about Daniel, I was like "I READ A FANFIC ABOUT THIS!!" Hee. FANON = CANON!

But then after when she said she held off the surgery till Sam said the name, so she knew it wasn't her, I got less excited. I think she didn't recognize the name after all.

And please do a full recap of what we learned here if you would at some point, so that lesser beings like myself who are easily distracted by Lee's red shirt and Boomer's bangs can get a clue about what all that infodump really told us. :)

[obsessive-a101.livejournal.com]

LOL... When I first heard them first say Daniel on-screen, I totally spazzed out, and was "OMGods! Daniel Thrace! Fanfic! She was right in her speculation!" LOL! Until this moment I didn't realize that you made up the name Daniel. XD However, there's also the fact that Ellen called him an "artist," and that definitely reminded me of Kara and her father. (o_o)

[chaila.livejournal.com]

DUDE. YOU MADE UP THE NAME DANIEL????? I think I just assumed there was some canon backstory that said his name was Daniel. And therefore I took this week's ep as CONFIRMATION OF YOUR GENIUS. But now I might take it as confirmation of your PROPHETIC ABILITIES.

I LOVE CAVIL MORE THAN ANY OTHER CYLON. HE IS FRAKKING BRILLIANT. THERE I SAID IT.

[asta77.livejournal.com]

But it sort of sounded like maybe they never got beyond the prototype before John nuked the line, but the prototype was okay?

Ellen said due to the contamination caused by Cavil all the copies were destroyed. So what happened to the original? Hmmmm......

[cyborganize.livejournal.com]

spoiler alert: YOU ARE A CYLON.

*backs away slowly*