I started watching BSG late... I am a HUGE sci fi fan, and I didn't want to even begin until I had the complete series to watch in sequence. It took me three weeks to get through the entire thing. I was hooked by the time I got to the end of the miniseries, and I was a complete mess when I got to the end of the finale. "What the frak was that?!?" I kept thinking... "Where is my closure? Where is the explanation of all of those things I wanted. What happened to the whole Lee / Kara dynamic that was a key ingredient to the vast majority of the series?"
As a freelance writer, I find those kind of discrepancies drive me nuts. I started poking through existing fanfiction (again a first) in search of the "real" ending I was sure was out there. There were some great ones, but none that did everything I wanted. At the same time I started writing a list of what I'd do if I was Ron Moore. (God complex, I realize.) Essentially I decided that if the BSG canon was perfect AS IT WAS... could I rewrite an extended ending that explained everything? It took me about four months to get the rough draft done. I posted daily once I started doing good copy.
The finished fic is on ff.net (abridged) and here on LJ (in its smutty completeness):
http://kag523.livejournal.com/893.html
Stuff that I wanted answers for, and included: - Where does Kara 'go' when she disappears? - Who is "Daniel", cylon 13? - Why did he leave the colony? - Where did Charbuck (the body on Earth 1.0) come from? - How could Lee see Kara explode, but still have that extra body hanging around on Earth 1.0? - Why can't Cottle and Baltar come up with an effective cylon detector? - Why doesn't Roslin die from the transfusion? - Where does the whole 'it has happened before...' wheel of time concept come from? (I'm a big Robert Jordan fan... his influences are in my own writing). - Who is Dreilide Thrace? - How does the piano player show up? - Why does Sam decide to fly the fleet to the sun, when any one of the computers would have been capable of the same? - How would the colonials plan for survival on an unknown planet? - What would life be like mere years after the ships disappeared?
It was a cathartic and fabulous experience... and it also totally hooked me on writing fanfiction. (I'm in the middle of my first pre-series AU right now.)
If you haven't read it, you are more than welcome to check it out! :>)
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Date: 2010-05-13 08:34 pm (UTC)As a freelance writer, I find those kind of discrepancies drive me nuts. I started poking through existing fanfiction (again a first) in search of the "real" ending I was sure was out there. There were some great ones, but none that did everything I wanted. At the same time I started writing a list of what I'd do if I was Ron Moore. (God complex, I realize.) Essentially I decided that if the BSG canon was perfect AS IT WAS... could I rewrite an extended ending that explained everything? It took me about four months to get the rough draft done. I posted daily once I started doing good copy.
The finished fic is on ff.net (abridged) and here on LJ (in its smutty completeness):
http://kag523.livejournal.com/893.html
Stuff that I wanted answers for, and included:
- Where does Kara 'go' when she disappears?
- Who is "Daniel", cylon 13?
- Why did he leave the colony?
- Where did Charbuck (the body on Earth 1.0) come from?
- How could Lee see Kara explode, but still have that extra body hanging around on Earth 1.0?
- Why can't Cottle and Baltar come up with an effective cylon detector?
- Why doesn't Roslin die from the transfusion?
- Where does the whole 'it has happened before...' wheel of time concept come from? (I'm a big Robert Jordan fan... his influences are in my own writing).
- Who is Dreilide Thrace?
- How does the piano player show up?
- Why does Sam decide to fly the fleet to the sun, when any one of the computers would have been capable of the same?
- How would the colonials plan for survival on an unknown planet?
- What would life be like mere years after the ships disappeared?
It was a cathartic and fabulous experience... and it also totally hooked me on writing fanfiction. (I'm in the middle of my first pre-series AU right now.)
If you haven't read it, you are more than welcome to check it out! :>)