DPP: Ranty Monday

[lizziec]

Hello Pilots Shippers, and welcome to another week of me being in charge of your DPPs. The good news is that I've finished my marking and am no longer quite so obsessed with Pilots Histories.

In honour of the fact that it is Monday, and Mondays often bring out the grumpy in people I'm inviting you to share your grumpy.

This is your opportunity to bring your rants about the show, RDM, Pilots, the Plot - anything so long as it's related to the show. Just get it off your chest. But while you're sharing also feel free to leave the things that help you deal with your rage the most - fic recs, meta or just words of wisdom.

I'll leave you for now with the matra that helps me when I find RDM's extra statements about and meddling with pilots particularly frustrating. "None of what he says as extra information is canon because if it doesn't exist on film then it doesn't exist."



In today's picture, Kara is especially annoyed. Nice to see she's entering into the spirit of the thing.

Comments

[lizziec]

Kara takes them to Earth. Ok, excellent destiny and I'm just fine with that. But, GAH, the execution!

Yes, totally. winegums mentioned here that they only decided to kill Kara off when they came to write the episode and I think that's where a lot of the problems with the execution of Kara's destiny come from. There was no coherent overall plan (recently my brother was reading Mark Watches and laughing over the latter's curiosity about the Cylons Plan - "Aww, he thinks there really was a plan!") so they were constantly scrabbling to try and fit where they wanted the plot to go with the plot they had already written themselves into. If that makes sense.

And what is she? Kara doesn't know. I absolutely hate the idea that she's an angel that some how isn't really Kara returned as an angel, but an angel that's come back in her image?? NO!, but I can maybe buy that she died, but was able to manifest in human form with a buried knowledge, I can sort-of get behind this. Yet, they tried to make it like it wasn't even really Kara?! What use was the piano-playing father closure bit if it wasn't her? Why would it be so frakkin' hard for her to remember the way to the 'new' Earth once the old one was discredited?

That was more or less the point that I realised that the writers didn't have a plan and were just making stuff up as they went along according to what they thought was awesome, cool or edgy on the particular day/week that they were writing. Most concepts I can kind of get behind if they make sense. As it is (to borrow a South Park-ism) it's like Chewbacca. It Does Not Make Sense (Chewbacca defence at wikipedia). And winds everyone most people up because of that.

Writers shouldn't be so busy congratulating themselves on how 'smart' and 'chic' their ploys are that they totally screw the fanbase.

Yes! I can almost imagine writer's meetings that end with someone saying "Wow, we're so awesome. This twist will throw everyone."