Yeah, it's the combination of fourth-wall-breaking while also talking about the cycle of time that I love, although I can see why it got cut.
I didn't have "flipper in danger!" sirens going of in my head either until I heard this. Basically because I can't think of another way to make that storyline "not that happy," in the tone that RDM used which was...kind of a little sarcastic, a little ominious, a little almost...nervous? I don't know, it's hard to describe tone when I'm not sure what he was intending and I may be misreading it.
I don't really think it is going to be angsty and awkward when Ellen gets back based on the (possibly misleading) trailer for next week, which kind of leaves...threats to Flipper. And I dunno, somehow a transitory threat like Hera and Athena in Epiphanies doesn't really sound like the storyline is going to a not-happy place?
I definitely hope you're right. Because at the same time, I can't understand how the narrative could work with this. Why introduce Flipper just to kill him off for melodrama? Especially when he's the culmination of such a major storyline - i.e. the need for the Cylon to biologically reproduce in the wake of the Hub's destruction.
So yeah. I can't see how Flipper's death could serve the story, but I also don't know what else awful could be on the horizon for them. :/
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Date: 2009-02-16 07:32 pm (UTC)I didn't have "flipper in danger!" sirens going of in my head either until I heard this. Basically because I can't think of another way to make that storyline "not that happy," in the tone that RDM used which was...kind of a little sarcastic, a little ominious, a little almost...nervous? I don't know, it's hard to describe tone when I'm not sure what he was intending and I may be misreading it.
I don't really think it is going to be angsty and awkward when Ellen gets back based on the (possibly misleading) trailer for next week, which kind of leaves...threats to Flipper. And I dunno, somehow a transitory threat like Hera and Athena in Epiphanies doesn't really sound like the storyline is going to a not-happy place?
I definitely hope you're right. Because at the same time, I can't understand how the narrative could work with this. Why introduce Flipper just to kill him off for melodrama? Especially when he's the culmination of such a major storyline - i.e. the need for the Cylon to biologically reproduce in the wake of the Hub's destruction.
So yeah. I can't see how Flipper's death could serve the story, but I also don't know what else awful could be on the horizon for them. :/