BSG Finale Spoilers.

[beccatoria]

So. Podcast for Islanded in a Stream of Stars finally went up.

Ron Moore actually says, in actual words, the he DID NOT REALISE how IMPORTANT Daniel would seem and that he TOTALLY DIDN'T ANTICIPATE the massive assumption that Kara would be related to Daniel, and so, ACTUALLY DEBUNKS THIS IN ACTUAL WORDS because he - get this - DOESN'T WANT US TO BE DISAPPOINTED WHEN WE SEE THE FINALE.

Because yeah. Daniel is, apparently, JUST some backstory for Cavil.

Apparently he's sorry and understands this is his fault for accidentally building expectation.

I just... WHAT?

How could you not realise how this would play?

And also, how the hell are they going to explain Dreilide Thrace knowing and teaching his daughter a song that ONLY CYLONS AND MAGICAL HYBRIDS KNOW? Or how come Kara's entire mystic, and apparently human, destiny, is TIED TO ROBOTS.

I fear some mystical explaination that it's a cyclical SONG OF ANGELS or some shit.

Yes, I'm upset about this. I think mainly because this season...they took Laura. They took Liam. I'm pretty sure I'll be disatisfied with the ending for Caprica. They fucking took Tigh in some ways. And now they're taking Kara.

I didn't want much. And I kept downsizing my expectations.

I mean, fine. I'm actually not against Kara as a mystical figure who's not a cylon. I mean, I wasn't actually expecting her to be a hybrid (despite my speculation) before No Exit.

But like, coming up with as cool a retcon as Daniel? And then just...not capitalising on it? Dangling this awesome premise to make up for some of the shitness of other storylines and then taking it away?

I do not want to feel this way.

I love No Exit. I love Someone to Watch Over Me. I love the Cylon on the memorial wall, I love the multifuneral, I love Ellen Tigh as the final cylon which I never thought I would. I liked the brutality of the mutiny. I loved Kara and Laura setting their own funeral pyres. I even liked Dee's suicide.

But yeah. I loved this show almost without reservation from the mini to the end of 4.0. It seems so unfair that in it's final run it could let me down.

I suppose this is what comes of loving it because it was a narrative that dealt with technology and hybridisation in ways no other narrative did: it didn't realise it was doing it either.

And now we're back to Hera as the first and perhaps last of her generation.

I want to love mystic!Kara for what she is, human or robot or half and half. I want to hope for a good ending for Caprica because as I've said, if something loves her, then even with the stupid loss of complexifying robotic babies (because srsly, I still think that Flipper's death was the weirdest non-answer to Cylon reproductive questions ever), her storyline basically works for me. I want to love that I finally felt like Laura was Laura again.

We get down to it: 4.0 was all about destroying all meaningful boundaries between human and cylon and blurring those even further with the existence of Nicky, Liam and potentially Kara - or at least the potential that the final cylon would be biologically related to someone. 4.5 has been all about - biologically - reasserting them via retcons, deaths, and, when the executive producer realises what a RIDICULOUSLY OBVIOUS ANVILICIOUS CLUE he accidentally let slip, USING HIS OWN DAMN PODCAST TO DEBUNK FAN THEORIES because they've gained that much traction on the internet.

And yet. 4.5 teases me with the way it finally does give us social hybridity, and it does so wonderfully.

And I just...I love this show and I'm furious with it at the same time, and I don't know how to deal with that.

Comments

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

wow. ron moore is actually that stupid. who could he not have realized that everyone would draw the conclusion that kara's dad = daniel??

ha, they are probably not even going to explain why kara knows that song. i find that entirely possible at this point.

ugh. i think ron moore has been too busy being infatuated with bill adama's mainpain.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know. I just don't understand how he thought people wouldn't assume that was significant.

At this point, I'm actively hoping that they explain her resurrection but not how her dad knew that song. Because if they don't, then I can ignore authorial intention and go with the ANVILICIOUS CLUES in the text and just decide to believe that of course her dad was Daniel. Just no one ever knew.

At this point, I'd honestly prefer they not explain how she knew the music than explain it with some lame retcon that precludes my fanon. :(

Actually, one of the only good things he said in the podcast was that looking back on the last half season he thought he spent too much time with Adama's pain about the ship breaking down. And I'm like, dude, srsly, YOU THINK? Maybe if we hadn't had so many shots of him ANGSTILY BRUSHING HIS TEETH, we could have seen how Chief ended up in the brig, or where the mutineers are. *sigh*