DPP: Counter-factual pilots
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no_takebacksHello 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 :)
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 :)
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Date: 2011-06-21 06:15 pm (UTC)At least it gave them both back that much - the subsequent complications and going back and forth really got frakked in TAB, when Kara finally laid it on the line and Lee decided to stay married (again, understandable in a way considering what the events of the flashbacks did to him, but....). Though I agree, Kara wouldn't have flown into the mandala if things had gone differently.