BSG: We're getting a divorce. You can keep 4.5. I get everything else.

[beccatoria]

Firstly 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?!

Comments

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Well, 'Deadlock' certainly needs to be airlocked. And you know my plan for, not rewriting Season 4, but presenting a revisionist version of it. ;)

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh!
Good golly, that sounds like an excellent idea. I hope you will make your revisionist history public once it's written.

[asta77.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I plan to. It was conceived as a Lee/Laura fic, but it's becoming more gen as I think about it. It almost has to be as I try to incorporate more moments from the series. Not that Lee and Laura won't be getting naked at some point. ;)

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, to be honest, as I said, I quite like the mutiny episodes, and a good deal of the individual scenes from A Disquiet Follows my Soul. But they also have non-Cylon Nicky and Laura being lame and the mutiny itself is referenced later so it's a little easier to disregard it. Although...I'm tempted to just fan-edit those too.

And basically the post-No Exit stuff is only about me a) getting rid of the awful bits of Deadlock and b) getting rid of the finale because...while I liked bits of it okay, the Earth bits are kind of...what's continuing to bother me and retrospective make me question the whole thing. It's harder to reclaim what I like of the finale, because it's so tied in with the stuff I don't. But...pre-finale. Yeah. I'm planning to reclaim most of the Deadlock - Islanded stuff that was awesome anyway. Which, really, is everything except the A/R crap, stuff referencing Insane Nickyless Chief, Hera's kidnapping because it leads to the finale and Insane Chief but not because I dislike it in principle, and Dead Liam.

It's weird because...this course of action makes me sound like I unmitigatingly hated most of S4.5. Which I really didn't. Or I wouldn't be so desperate to save all the awesome bits. It's just, if i have to ignore the ending, I might as well go back and fix the few things that really ticked me off at the same time.

I'd note that my way, we also end up with no A/R and pretty much end with a heavy focus on Laura/Lee and politics as they rebuild the Quorum... ;)

ALSO YOUR REVISIONIST HISTORY WILL BE GLORIOUS AND MIGHTY AND I WILL NOT STOP BUGGING YOU ABOUT IT UNTIL IT'S FINISHED.

I guess I love your fic not only because it'll be everything I wanted vis-a-vis Laura/Lee done by someone who'll do it well but also because the more I think about it, the more I think there were some startlingly beautiful ideas in 4.5, but that the execution was often very messy and wrecked a bunch of crap. And that maybe we'd all be happier if we treated it as a template for our own revisionist histories?