DPP: Wish List & Coping

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

During the last few episodes of BSG, I was scribbling down all of my thoughts and predictions as to what might happen during the finale. Then the finale happened and I needed to find a way to accept what happened and how it ALL ended. So other than crying, talking with all of you lovely peeps; I wrote a list in the middle of the night. My version of what I’m thankful for that we got to see with pilots and what I wish we had gotten to see. This list made me more functional for the work week after the finale.

What I would like to know is what did you all do to cope with finale? Did you rewrite the end; create happy pilot gifs and icons? Did you make lists? I’m really curious about those who came into fandom after the finale.  Also, did anyone else have a wish list for pilots, things that we should have gotten to see?

Here is a link for a zip file of all the songs mentioned in yesterday's DPP: Megaupload

If this doesn't work or you want me to post it on another sight, just let me know.


**REMINDER: The revelations for the challenge from last week are due Sunday, May 16th.**
I was supposed to post this yesterday but I fail!:)

Comments

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Well, first of all, let me start by saying that I really love to read your thoughts on all the topics discussed here.

I also started watching BSG after the show had ended and, therefore, I didn't go through years of emotional build-up. I hadn't really read anything about the episodes beforehand and had no idea where everything would lead or how the writers would wrap everything up. To me it was all a surprise.

Having said that, I have to say I didn't hate the finale. But I can't say that I wasn't disappointed by lots of things, either. And the romantic in me felt robbed of a happier ending for Kara and Lee. At least I needed to get more of a closure for them.

I loved their flashback scenes because they established that the attraction/connection between them had been there from the very beginning. And I could have accepted the poof better, if throughout the series the writers hadn't gone to such lengths to keep them apart , often resorting to really contrived plot lines (IMHO) to do so. In other words, if they had had more of a closure before Maelstrom , or ,as you put it, if writers had "stopped sabotaging Kara and Lee's potential for the sake of 'drama' ".

I never really got the whole death/angel plot line. It never made any sense to me (no matter how much I loved the scene in which Lee tells her he doesn't care about any of that). I feel it wasn't really necessary to resort to that in order to make Kara special, or for her to fulfill her destiny in a religious/prophetized way. Even so, I really loved your take on Kara's decision to sacrifice herself as an act of free will. I also loved your take on Lee's emotional state, as well ("loving her has enriched him rather than broken him";"Lee was pretty much the only person I can imagine being strong enough to love her so completely for the person she was, and to not be destroyed by sharing - and ultimately surviving - the tragic path she both chose").

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Closure was the key to a good Kara/Lee ending. That's all I'll say.:)