DPP: Butterfly effect

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

Due to time constrains I'll get right to today's topic.


We all have problems/issues with some stuff from canon. That's not a news to anybody. What I'll like to hear today from you is



What is the event/decision/discussion that you would change from canon and what effect do you think that the change would have on latter events.



You can rec a fic that involves this, mention the event and maybe somebody else will pit it up from there or discuss it at length.

Comments

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I was thinking recently about what would happen if Kara had ended up with Lee instead of Baltar after the Colonial Day celebration. Would Kara have gone back to Caprica at all? While the obvious shipper result is that she wouldn't have met Sam. She also wouldn't have found the arrow and opened the Tomb of Athena nor would Helo and Sharon returned to the fleet with her. I don't know where it goes after that, but it would definitely continue to ripple.

And one of my favorites that doesn't necessarily change much for a while is what if Kara went back to Caprica to find Sam and found him dead? During most of S2 its easy to see Kara's obsession with Sam as an escape instead of real love affair so not being able to save him would send her into a tailspin and re-enforce her fear that loving her caused death, Sam's and Zak, keeping her away from Lee in a less contrived manner. I still think it's possible, likely even, that Kara would use New Caprica as a way to put distance between herself and Lee. I find it less likely that Lee would marry Dee without Kara marrying Sam. So after the exodus from New Caprica and Kara's escape from Leoben in the dollhouse, it's Lee who is left to help her pick up the pieces without the complication of spouses. :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think this would have been an interesting twist to have - Sam actually WAS nothing more than a plot device to keep pilots apart for the most part, or at least started out that way. And yes, it would have been a lot less pointless than the QoD to have Kara muster out anyway, even without him.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

I'm with you 200% on the first part. every time that i get annoyed with that whole thing (getting in bed with Baltar and the following fight) I think that ashe would have not went to Caprica, so no Arrow, no Tomb, no Helo&Athena and so on.