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beccatoriaFirstly I'm sorry for being very behind on replying to comments. My life is kind of crazy just now. Which is probably part of why I'm...feeling really weird about BSG.
The more I think about the finale, the more I'm disappointed in it, which...I really didn't think I would be. Because I'd lowered my expectations somewhat. But...I guess shit happens.
But I don't want to let it negatively affect my opinion of the entire show any more than I have to. So I am taking radical action and attempting to do something I hate doing: instituting personal canon. I'm just flat out refusing to acknowledge parts of it happened.
(Except I totally WILL acknowledge them at times because I'm like that and will callously appropriate visuals for vids. I mean I actually, if I have the heart to do it, even have a 4.5-centric vid in the works.)
But basically this is now my canon:
Mini - 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion + No Exit.
Plus selected background scenes of awesome Cylon integration like the Cylons on the memorial wall. Or sitting in the Pilot briefing room with Starbuck in the gorgeous teaser to Someone to Watch Over Me.
Plus the moment Kara starts playing All Along the Watchtower and then plays her father's music to Sam.
Though really, if pressed, I'd just cut that down to Mini - 4x11 + 4x15 as the bonus backstory episode. I just want to save the two semi-decent things that came after (cylons on the memorial wall & Kara and her piano-playing.)
This means that:
1) Nicky is still a cybrid. ETA And Cally's suicidal/infanticidal behaviour makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE. /ETA.
2) Liam is still alive.
3) Ellen Tigh is still awesome and I can still love Saul.
4) Tory is still kick ass and leading and stuff on the basestar.
5) Massive implication that Daniel is Kara's father.
6) Boomer is more interesting this way. (I actually didn't mind her double-double cross but her final triple-cross was highly meh.)
I'm also vaguely considering canonising the very last two minutes of the finale because I actually liked that bit and without the sucky prior context of anti-technological and ONLY ONE HYBRID crap it's a fun fourth-wall break.
So it's like, we finish at 4x11 and then we have these floating pieces - No Exit, Kara playing the piano, Cylons on the memorial wall, a completely contextless suggestion that we're all hybrids. Like a trailer for the awesome this season could have been without the suck factor?
And I'm kind of totally okay with the lack of concrete answers since BSG disappointed me so hard with them and I'm now thinking, it's a far better show when it's just asking questions and inventing insane shit with no reason behind it.
I don't find this kind of thing easy, but I'm serious people. I WILL TAKE BACK BSG USING EVERY WEAPON AT MY DISPOSAL DOWN TO MY OWN EYE TEETH. (See? SEE ME REAPPROPRIATE DIALOGUE?)
WHO'S WITH ME?!
The more I think about the finale, the more I'm disappointed in it, which...I really didn't think I would be. Because I'd lowered my expectations somewhat. But...I guess shit happens.
But I don't want to let it negatively affect my opinion of the entire show any more than I have to. So I am taking radical action and attempting to do something I hate doing: instituting personal canon. I'm just flat out refusing to acknowledge parts of it happened.
(Except I totally WILL acknowledge them at times because I'm like that and will callously appropriate visuals for vids. I mean I actually, if I have the heart to do it, even have a 4.5-centric vid in the works.)
But basically this is now my canon:
Mini - 4x11 Sometimes a Great Notion + No Exit.
Plus selected background scenes of awesome Cylon integration like the Cylons on the memorial wall. Or sitting in the Pilot briefing room with Starbuck in the gorgeous teaser to Someone to Watch Over Me.
Plus the moment Kara starts playing All Along the Watchtower and then plays her father's music to Sam.
Though really, if pressed, I'd just cut that down to Mini - 4x11 + 4x15 as the bonus backstory episode. I just want to save the two semi-decent things that came after (cylons on the memorial wall & Kara and her piano-playing.)
This means that:
1) Nicky is still a cybrid. ETA And Cally's suicidal/infanticidal behaviour makes SO MUCH MORE SENSE. /ETA.
2) Liam is still alive.
3) Ellen Tigh is still awesome and I can still love Saul.
4) Tory is still kick ass and leading and stuff on the basestar.
5) Massive implication that Daniel is Kara's father.
6) Boomer is more interesting this way. (I actually didn't mind her double-double cross but her final triple-cross was highly meh.)
I'm also vaguely considering canonising the very last two minutes of the finale because I actually liked that bit and without the sucky prior context of anti-technological and ONLY ONE HYBRID crap it's a fun fourth-wall break.
So it's like, we finish at 4x11 and then we have these floating pieces - No Exit, Kara playing the piano, Cylons on the memorial wall, a completely contextless suggestion that we're all hybrids. Like a trailer for the awesome this season could have been without the suck factor?
And I'm kind of totally okay with the lack of concrete answers since BSG disappointed me so hard with them and I'm now thinking, it's a far better show when it's just asking questions and inventing insane shit with no reason behind it.
I don't find this kind of thing easy, but I'm serious people. I WILL TAKE BACK BSG USING EVERY WEAPON AT MY DISPOSAL DOWN TO MY OWN EYE TEETH. (See? SEE ME REAPPROPRIATE DIALOGUE?)
WHO'S WITH ME?!
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Date: 2009-03-25 12:20 am (UTC)To be honest, I think that there's a very good argument to be made for Hera's projection abilities being canon pre-4.5 anyway. She's also a part of the Opera House visions which Athena explicitly describes in a cut scene as being like projecting.
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Date: 2009-03-25 05:45 am (UTC)Um, on second thought, I'm not sure I agree iwth making "Sometimes a Great Notion" the cut-off (with No Exit as a post-cut-off oasis. Or maybe lake. A whole ep's bigger than a few scenes). Could we maybe cut it off partway through the ep, before Dualla blows her brains out? That would save us from TWO scenes of Olmos chomping on the scenery like crazy (with Dee/Lee in the morgue, and then with Tigh in his cabin). And would also leave Dualla alive. Um, just a thought I toss out there. I *like* Dualla. And she'd never been shown as suicidal before that ep.
In fact, the whole point of h er death was a plot device to allow the mutiny to get kickstarted. Because Felix was her FRIEND, and I'm sure he would've found a more constructive way to express his very understandable concerns about Adama's decisions. Someone else can blow their head off instead. How about Romo Lampkin? Unless you need h im in your alternate S 4.5. I won't have a tantrum if you want to stick with the whole ep, but I figured it never hurts to speak up. The worst you can do is tell me no!