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beccatoria) wrote2009-05-15 06:41 pm
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BSG: Final Five Comic #2.
So this continues to be pretty awesome mainly because it continues to do its best to complexify the simplistic boringness of the "God did it" ending in canon.
I'll provide a quick summary for those interested:
As you may or may not recall the first issue established that the thirteenth tribe were humans on Kobol - atheists - who created organic memory transfer and transferred themselves into organic robot bodies when they died. Kobol was in the midst of shitloads of uprisings against technology, each other and was generally a huge mess. Pythia, who looked just like Kara, was being visited by Head Six and was about to be burned as a heretic cus she was all, "UNITE TRIBES!" or some shit. Michael Tigh, a 13th Tribe Cylon was fascinated by her and loved her but then she got shot during him trying to break her out of jail. The cylons resurrect John Cavil, a human, in thanks for his help during the the riots or somesuch; it's all a bit hazy by now.
So this issue starts with the 13th Tribe having left Kobol cus of all the violence and persecution and stuff in search of a new planet. Shit is not really going well because their leader, Michael Tigh, isn't stopping at every viable planet to check for food, he's searching for "Earth", which is an ideal, a place for a clean slate (cue me choking back aaaaaanger!). John Cavil's all, "We have our clean slate, bitches, and immortality; fuck Earth, I want steak." Which, frankly, is a sentiment I agree with. He also points out that travelling for a few months at relativistic speed it's already been decades on Kobol and the humans have probably killed the shit out of each other by now (cue clip of a Centurion on wrecked Kobol; we saw no centurions in the first issue so I guess they invented them in the interim?)
Kara's viper shows up and everyone freaks out cus they think the humans have come after them. The viper flies into what is obviously the Passage and one of the Cylon ships goes after it but will burn up cus of the radiation. At HeadSix's insistence, Michael Tigh orders his ship (the Resurrection ship) to fly after their other ship since they're radiation shielded.
A mysterious stowaway we've been seeing wandering around fiddling with technical shit does some more...technical shit and then reveals himself to be Magnus Baltar (who we later find out was the dude that shot Pythia in issue one) who stowed away because "you" told him to. Basically I'm pretty sure he sabotaged the resurrection ship which then crashed and burned on the Algae planet.
The Cylons are freaking out because they're stranded away from most of their fleet on the Algae planet and don't have resurrection either and Michael Tigh gets srsly pissed at Head Six and tells her to frak off then sees Magnus works out who he is and tries to kill him. Magnus is all, "Okay! Kill me, but dude, I was totally sad when I saw how sad all y'all were at the death of your fellow people and thus I feel I have grown."
They fight anyway though, until KARA shows up in her Colonial Flight suit telling Baltar to back the hell away from Michael because she's been to Earth and she's going to take them there. Baltar is all, "OMG PROOF OF THE DIVINE WALKING AMONG US." Kara is all, "Michael, I told you I'd see you on the other side!"
Head Six tells Michael that this is Aurora, one of the Lords of Kobol, like Head Six herself, although they prefer other names and they guide and offer advice rather than interfering directly. Except apparently Aurora is an awkward bitch ("a rogue god") and likes to give in to her "basal urges." She says that this ISN'T the woman Michael loved, suggesting that Pythia is really dead and Aurora has taken her form. Which in turn suggests that Aurora took Kara's form and returned in 4x01, although clearly having given herself like, all of Kara's memories and stuff and really believing that she was Kara (thus I don't feel it negates the whole Daniel=Dreilide thing ONE BIT because her hybridity NEVER explained her resurrection directly). It's not exactly clear whether Aurora now believes she is Pythia, especially since Pythia was always a crazy vision whore. Anyway, Michael's response to this revelation is that he doesn't care that she's a god in um, Pythia's clothing.
Karaura or um, Pythira or whatever the hell she is says that she will help them rebuild their ship, rejoin their fleet and lead them to Earth on the condition that Magnus Baltar takes the book of Pythia back to Kobol to spread her words.
The last shot, is a man, woman and a child between them looking through a window at a planet (Earth?) but I can't tell who they are cus it's backlit. Magnus Baltar's VO goes on about how his journey is back to Earth but that "the oracle and her husband," are journeying to a new world and a new chance at peace, but then says, "but the oracle had alreayd told me... it was not to be."
So like, I assume the oracle is Aurora/Pythia since Pythia was an oracle and since earlier we have Magnus musing on whether Pythia was an oracle or a heretic. So like, I guess she gets married to Michael Tigh?
I kind of don't really believe that the family unit we see at the end IS those three cus, um, the crack, THE CRACK would be...too kind to me in a season that kept tempting me with crack and then stealing it away.
But for real. If this comic series gives me a) Saul Tigh is a descendent of a GOD, b) Saul Tigh is a descendent of season 4 KARA THRACE and c) canonical basis for Kara/Tigh crackshipping, I will unilaterally declare it the greatest BSG ever.
Just to warn you all.
I'll provide a quick summary for those interested:
As you may or may not recall the first issue established that the thirteenth tribe were humans on Kobol - atheists - who created organic memory transfer and transferred themselves into organic robot bodies when they died. Kobol was in the midst of shitloads of uprisings against technology, each other and was generally a huge mess. Pythia, who looked just like Kara, was being visited by Head Six and was about to be burned as a heretic cus she was all, "UNITE TRIBES!" or some shit. Michael Tigh, a 13th Tribe Cylon was fascinated by her and loved her but then she got shot during him trying to break her out of jail. The cylons resurrect John Cavil, a human, in thanks for his help during the the riots or somesuch; it's all a bit hazy by now.
So this issue starts with the 13th Tribe having left Kobol cus of all the violence and persecution and stuff in search of a new planet. Shit is not really going well because their leader, Michael Tigh, isn't stopping at every viable planet to check for food, he's searching for "Earth", which is an ideal, a place for a clean slate (cue me choking back aaaaaanger!). John Cavil's all, "We have our clean slate, bitches, and immortality; fuck Earth, I want steak." Which, frankly, is a sentiment I agree with. He also points out that travelling for a few months at relativistic speed it's already been decades on Kobol and the humans have probably killed the shit out of each other by now (cue clip of a Centurion on wrecked Kobol; we saw no centurions in the first issue so I guess they invented them in the interim?)
Kara's viper shows up and everyone freaks out cus they think the humans have come after them. The viper flies into what is obviously the Passage and one of the Cylon ships goes after it but will burn up cus of the radiation. At HeadSix's insistence, Michael Tigh orders his ship (the Resurrection ship) to fly after their other ship since they're radiation shielded.
A mysterious stowaway we've been seeing wandering around fiddling with technical shit does some more...technical shit and then reveals himself to be Magnus Baltar (who we later find out was the dude that shot Pythia in issue one) who stowed away because "you" told him to. Basically I'm pretty sure he sabotaged the resurrection ship which then crashed and burned on the Algae planet.
The Cylons are freaking out because they're stranded away from most of their fleet on the Algae planet and don't have resurrection either and Michael Tigh gets srsly pissed at Head Six and tells her to frak off then sees Magnus works out who he is and tries to kill him. Magnus is all, "Okay! Kill me, but dude, I was totally sad when I saw how sad all y'all were at the death of your fellow people and thus I feel I have grown."
They fight anyway though, until KARA shows up in her Colonial Flight suit telling Baltar to back the hell away from Michael because she's been to Earth and she's going to take them there. Baltar is all, "OMG PROOF OF THE DIVINE WALKING AMONG US." Kara is all, "Michael, I told you I'd see you on the other side!"
Head Six tells Michael that this is Aurora, one of the Lords of Kobol, like Head Six herself, although they prefer other names and they guide and offer advice rather than interfering directly. Except apparently Aurora is an awkward bitch ("a rogue god") and likes to give in to her "basal urges." She says that this ISN'T the woman Michael loved, suggesting that Pythia is really dead and Aurora has taken her form. Which in turn suggests that Aurora took Kara's form and returned in 4x01, although clearly having given herself like, all of Kara's memories and stuff and really believing that she was Kara (thus I don't feel it negates the whole Daniel=Dreilide thing ONE BIT because her hybridity NEVER explained her resurrection directly). It's not exactly clear whether Aurora now believes she is Pythia, especially since Pythia was always a crazy vision whore. Anyway, Michael's response to this revelation is that he doesn't care that she's a god in um, Pythia's clothing.
Karaura or um, Pythira or whatever the hell she is says that she will help them rebuild their ship, rejoin their fleet and lead them to Earth on the condition that Magnus Baltar takes the book of Pythia back to Kobol to spread her words.
The last shot, is a man, woman and a child between them looking through a window at a planet (Earth?) but I can't tell who they are cus it's backlit. Magnus Baltar's VO goes on about how his journey is back to Earth but that "the oracle and her husband," are journeying to a new world and a new chance at peace, but then says, "but the oracle had alreayd told me... it was not to be."
So like, I assume the oracle is Aurora/Pythia since Pythia was an oracle and since earlier we have Magnus musing on whether Pythia was an oracle or a heretic. So like, I guess she gets married to Michael Tigh?
I kind of don't really believe that the family unit we see at the end IS those three cus, um, the crack, THE CRACK would be...too kind to me in a season that kept tempting me with crack and then stealing it away.
But for real. If this comic series gives me a) Saul Tigh is a descendent of a GOD, b) Saul Tigh is a descendent of season 4 KARA THRACE and c) canonical basis for Kara/Tigh crackshipping, I will unilaterally declare it the greatest BSG ever.
Just to warn you all.
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*stares*
OMG! *wishes hard* Just because that would be endlessly amusing to me. :D
And thanks for the summary, if it keeps sounding this interesting/hilarious I may have to look harder for these. SOMEONE should have them around here.
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mycomicshop.com also has very reasonable prices and shipping and stuff though is mostly worth it for bulk orders. /comics geekery.
But yes. THE CRACK. Pretty much that is why I love it right now. That and my ability to read it as an indictment of the finale's lack of imagination though I grant that's almost certainly NOT what they intended. I do wonder how they're going to handle the finale, or if they'll reference it though. *worries*
Anyway, I'll keep everyone updated. ;)
We can be amused together!
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I really enjoy the crack but then...I always have had a far higher tolerance for that kind of thing than most...saner people. ;)
I don't really think that it is canon in any meaningful sense unless you particularly want it to be. There's never been any sense in previous series that the comics are more than tie-ins, unlike in say the Star Wars universe which tries to create an entire, cohesive secondary universe. Which is why I was really surprised that apparently one of the writers mentioned the comics as a source of answers at a con or something.
My instinct is that it was an easy dodge to not have to address why the show didn't offer more clarity (which as you know, I have more a problem with that on the basis of tone rather than as a creative decision, but I get why it bugs others) rather than the idea this was actually what the writers intended for canon and just passed off to the comics guys cus that makes no sense.
Plus the entire series is billed as "an original interpretation of the story of the Final Five," (bolding mine) so I think from the start Dynamite (the comics publisher) were billing it as like...half AU?
I kind of applaud their balls in just flat out clarifying massive bits of canon in explicit ways though; tie-ins usually steer WELL clear of that, for obviously reasons.
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This is some mighty fine crack indeed. Now Sam just needs to show up. Cuz I'm wacky and since the series is called THE FINAL FIVE it would be a trip if some of them are actually IN IT.
Kara/Pythia/Aurora can only placate me so much.
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I'm desperately hoping that if there's a jump forward to where Kara goes after leaving Earth or something in the finale it's really oblique and doesn't directly reference much of the finale so I can still include the comics in my personal canon... *crosses fingers!*