Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

It seems like all my DPPs are thinky questions. Is that a problem?

Continuing the trend...

Where would you branch off from canon?
Do you go all the way to the end and lose it at the poof? Is it Blood on the Scales when Kara chooses to stay with shot Sam?
Is it earlier? Maelstrom? Taking a Break From All Your Worries? Unfinished Business? Before the year break? Before Razor? Before Peg at all? After Home II when it felt like all things were possible? Before Kara slept with Sam? Before she slept with Baltar? Or are you fine with the way everything turned out?
Is there a moment in your personal canon that is the lynchpin where, if they just changed direction there, the whole thing would've come out right? What do you think?

Comments

[jeeshee.livejournal.com]

For the show as a whole, I'd say Crossroads is where it falls apart for me. At the time I defended the F5 stuff, but in hindsight it took the show too deep into the ridiculous and forced the writers to make stuff up (the whole 'they're cylons but not cylons' to cover up the plotholes, e.g. Tigh's aging).

For the ship...

Part of me thinks they should have just left Sam on Caprica!

Or, as stated above, TABFAYW. The relationship could have had a little happiness, and Kara could still have died if they really wanted to go down that path. On her return, Lee might have stuck around to fight her corner.

Alternatively I felt a spark of hope just before they found fake!Earth - they'd inhabited the Adama/Roslin roles so well, it felt like such a good climax for their respective stories. That would have been a great springboard for them to make it work. I didn't like Sam's ending as a whole and I feel like the guilt of that situation held Kara back in the latter part of the season. If K/L had worked it out before the mutiny, and Sam had just died, I think they could have stayed together right to the end.

Of course none of that solves the vanishing, so...