DPP: Counter-factual pilots

[lizziec]

Hello everyone and welcome to my week of DPP posts :) On each day I'll include a pretty screenshot of pilots, because I can (though only from s1 and 2 cos they're the only two seasons I have access to screenshot at the moment ;))

This week I'm marking history exams, so I thought I'd get us kicked off with a slightly historically themed DPP - Counter-factual pilots.

What scenes or episodes would you change if you could have the power to go back in time and fix something you think was broken? Would you change it so a spanner was thrown in the works of our pilots, or change it so they had a better chance of some sort of happy ending? What effect do you think your change would have had on the stories further down the line?

To get you started here's one of mine:
I'd change Maelstrom. I know I've mentioned this before but I was devastated by the outcome of Maelstrom and spent the entire episode (and still do) willing Lee to ground her and help her sort her head out. He usually (IMO) has such good instincts when it comes to Kara and when she needs to be pushed or supported but they're completely absent in this episode. Earlier in the run (S1 or 2) I think he'd have listened to her when she said she didn't want to go out because she didn't trust herself (though I know in S1 or 2 that Kara probably wouldn't have told him that). I think that changing the outcome of Maelstrom would have changed the last series completely, and maybe led to a more meaningful death for one or both of them - or even some sort of happy ending. Hopefully, at the very least, it would have stopped the last season getting so twisted up in the mythology that BSG had been creating at this point.

Feel free to bring rants, discussion, meta, recommendations of meta or fic or even some comment fic of your own :)

Comments

[lizziec]

What kind of tiny moments? I'm curious now :)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are so many. I wouldn't have Kara sleeping with Baltar on Colonial. I wouldn't have Lee being so nasty about it. I wouldn't have Kara falling for Sam. I wouldn't have Kara not visiting Lee after she shot him. I wouldn't have Lee dating Dee. I wouldn't have Kara marrying Sam. Especially not when she did it. I wouldn't have Lee marrying Dee. I wouldn't have Kara not accepting to have a divorce. I wouldn't have Lee having second thoughts about leaving Dee.

But despite the fact I wasn't pleased with any of those moments, I can understand them and painful though they were, they felt believable. So I could live with them, because both of them learned so much along the way and they were on their way to each other. But her death not only changed everything, it didn't make sense at all. It served no purpose that wouldn't have been better achieved some other way. It was poorly thought out and was created more for shock value than anything else. And later on, they didn't know waht to do with it. The whole thing didn't make sense at all, not even from a supernatural point of view.

[lizziec]

But her death not only changed everything, it didn't make sense at all. It served no purpose that wouldn't have been better achieved some other way. It was poorly thought out and was created more for shock value than anything else. And later on, they didn't know waht to do with it. The whole thing didn't make sense at all, not even from a supernatural point of view.

Oh! This this this this this this. So much this. I've said further up the page that I think could live with her death if it had been more meaningful and if she'd stayed dead. If she'd died as a result of a heroic sacrifice or to save someone she loved, or just in the course of her every day job, which was always a possibility for her anyway, and she knew it was (look at her in Scar on Bright Shiny Futures that she'd probably never live to see).