Daily Pilots Post: Lay Down My What?

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

It has been a fabulous week, everyone.  Thank you so much for coming along for the ride.

We've got the re-watch coming up tonight, so I'm taking the episode we're watching as my theme.  Lay Down Your Burdens.

I get it.  I really do.  But they laid down the WRONG BURDENS!  They collectively put down a lot of responsibilities and cares and concerns.  But they kept ANGST!  And GUILT!  And SELF-RIGHTEOUS IRE!  And GAIUS FRAKKING BALTAR!  And....  **ahem**  Okay, you get my point.

So!  For today, I'm asking all you lovely shippers to help me work out how this episode should have gone.

Key points to remember:

1) Welcome to Chief's PTSD.  Have sympathy for him or not.  Also, meet the most completely insane "religious councilor" in the entire history of ever.
2) Lee & Kara's "I hope you find him..." (but not really, but I can't say that, because then I'd be letting go of my EPIC ANGST), "Thanks..." (did you really say that?  I didn't actually want you to say that, I just can't tell you because then I'd be letting go of my EPIC ANGST).
3) Zarek iz twixy.  I'm thinking not so much with the whole entrusting the future of humanity to him thing.
4) ZOMG!  Tory named the episode!  Foreshadowing of the supreme importance of minor and unmemorable background characters!  Do Not Forget!
5) This could go any way you all want it to -- angsty, fluffy, whatever.  All I ask is that you have fun.

So, I'll start it off with a couple questions:
Which burdens do you all think *should* have been laid down?
What would it have taken to keep Baltar and Zarek's slimy hands off the Exec


Comments

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

For me, this ep was always about the contradiction of no one laying down their burdens. Everyone took their burdens with them. The one exception might have been Saul & Ellen who seemed happier on NC. The NC experiment failed before the cylons showed up. There was the tempting illusion of being able to release your problems and start over (the illusion of the clear slate, Romo?), but it never really happened. The problems morphed rather than disappeared.

Excellent Q, Ms Jen, bravo!

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

(the illusion of the clear slate, Romo?)

Right?

I think Roslin did end up trying to lay down her burdens, to some degree, and live a simpler life during the year we don't see between her loss of the election and the beginning of the Cylon Occupation.

I think a lot of the soldiers in the fleet put away their worries and concerns over protecting the fleet -- which is why the battlestars were both so under-staffed and had to high-tail it out.

But they were holding on to a fantasy during the space of a long, deep breath. Never anything more than that.

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

Roslin seemed to be doing pennance for kidnapping Hera/ Isis. The soldiers that went down seemed to have taken their problems with them - those that joined the Union were in an uproar over working conditions. Gaeta made that point to a drugged out/ post-orgy Baltar in his office. And who can forget Cally - looking 9 mos along - screaming at everyone to shut the frak up at Tyrol's organization mtg. Adama and Lee may have let their warrior skills diminish, but their personal burdens (hello! Bill! cabin in the woods) wear them down or their waistlines out.