Daily Pilots Post: Ideal Episode

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Happy Saturday, all! Wow, the round robin was so much fun to see develop yesterday! And please, if you feel so inclined, keep the post going!

Today's topic: Tell me how your ideal episode would have played out. Who would have been in it and who would not? Would it have been an actiony ep or something more character driven? Etc. etc. Be as general or as specific as you want.

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Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

This is an interesting question. I really like the idea up-thread about Kara and Lee being stuck together somewhere and having to actually confront/work out some of their issues. I would have really liked to have seen the alternate idea the writers tossed around for Maelstrom, where Kara and Lee both got trapped beneath the hard deck and were trying to find a way for them both to escape, and they were talking about their issues and Kara finally decided she would sacrifice herself which would enable Lee to live/escape somehow and at the last minute he found a way to save them both.

That would have been a real turning point for them. And Kara would still be human.

ETA: As far as them getting together at the end of the finale, I'll say this. I hated almost everything the finale chose to be, as it seemed like a real turning of the back/throwing up of the hands of all the core things the show had been about. I hated Kara's destiny being reduced to such...coincidence and happenstance and childhood memories and not at all being about what she could accomplish or choose to do with her own free will. (I would have liked a Kara sacrifices herself for the good of humanity a hell of a lot more, believe it or not.) So I wanted Kara to have two things at the end 1)a sense of victory/triumph/accomplishment and 2) peace and happiness in her future. The show's resolution for Kara did not convince me she got either of those, and frankly it felt pasted on. So if they were gonna paste that on, I could certainly live with a pasted on happy ending for Kara and Lee. Would it have been better if they hadn't killed her and had found a way for her to achieve her destiny as a real flesh-and-blood human? Of course, and then it wouldn't have been impossible to write a real arc for Kara and Lee where they got together in a logical fashion. Because let's face it, Lee should have seen the light when Kara returned. That's what Romo's speech was about and instead they shuffled him off to quorum and put distance between them as much as possible. Silly decisions.

[cherylad.livejournal.com]

I don't want to go to deep here (cuz the rage lies this way), but I think Daybreak was written in a complete vacuum to the rest not only the season but the entire show. It is what it all felt so false for me. I can't find an edit for it - it just needed to be trashed and a completely different episode put in there.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of agree. (The rage! It flares up every now and again like bad arthritis!)

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

where Kara and Lee both got trapped beneath the hard deck and were trying to find a way for them both to escape, and they were talking about their issues

I like this. Something I really wanted and we never got was a meaningful conversation between them. I wanted them to actually talk about them and their feelings for once (and the perfect sceneario for that was a life-or-death situation, imo). There were so many words left unsaid between them in the end, it was a shame.