Bop_Radar posed this very question some months back and you might be interested in the answers (http://no-takebacks.livejournal.com/211835.html). I think it's hard for me to fathom that their dynamic WOULD be the same if they had been raised as siblings or had knowledge of that relationship at all. (It's also hard to imagine that plotline fitting in the BSG world, at least the early seasons, despite all the crazy twists they did give us.)
And if they found out later...I just don't think most American TV shows (not airing on premium channels) would really want to tackle that taboo, so it's hard for me to imagine that we'd get the same kind of romantic love between them. I also think that then any kind of romantic/sexual scene between them would boil down to always being about the wrongness and the incest, which would probably detract from all the other complicated levels they operate on, if that makes sense. And it would be even less possible to imagine a bright shiny future for them. :( But, really it depends on how it played out.
My inclination is to say that I loved their relationship exactly as it was, painful, thorny, problematic, and all...and I wouldn't want to change it in any way with the exception of their last five minutes. ;)
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Date: 2012-10-23 01:07 pm (UTC)And if they found out later...I just don't think most American TV shows (not airing on premium channels) would really want to tackle that taboo, so it's hard for me to imagine that we'd get the same kind of romantic love between them. I also think that then any kind of romantic/sexual scene between them would boil down to always being about the wrongness and the incest, which would probably detract from all the other complicated levels they operate on, if that makes sense. And it would be even less possible to imagine a bright shiny future for them. :( But, really it depends on how it played out.
My inclination is to say that I loved their relationship exactly as it was, painful, thorny, problematic, and all...and I wouldn't want to change it in any way with the exception of their last five minutes. ;)