DPP: What happened next?

[bonita-chica71.livejournal.com]

Hey y'all! It's Bonita_Chica71 a.k.a, Nicole. I'll be your "El Capitan" lolz. First off I'd like to apologize for not being involed more in the community this summer. Life in -big letters- happened this year but alas enough about that, onward to the fun stuff.

First activity of the week: Given that it's been over a year since we left our wonderful pilots and the like, it got me to thinking, if YOU could have YOUR OWN way, what would be the fate of the people of the fleet after the events of the finale? It can be anyone from anywhere in the Galactica-verse. It can be serious or cracktastic. Did they live happily ever after? Did they actually pull a fast one on us about the whole "death" thing? Or did the just do as Lee said "The least as humanly possible"?

Can't wait to see your posts! :)

*Besos*
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Comments

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

It's a bit quiet around these parts, but I hope everyone is having a terrific Labor Day and/or convention trip!

It's funny, I've never tried to think too far past the finale in terms of my favorite characters. I think that Lee will be all right because he's too strong not to be, and that he will be able to find a kind of peace in safeguarding the people and in knowing that there is a future for the human race, which is probably more than he dared to really believe during those years of constant battle. I don't think he'll get over Kara, and I don't think he'll settle down and have kids of his own. Frankly, after the near-fatal doses of radiation every pilot took during "The Passage" I'm betting most of them can't have kids, or if they do the babies might come out with three heads :) (Someone needs to write the epic tale of Narcho and his six-fingered, four-eyed children of Earth!) I think Lee would seek solitude at times, but he would not live on his own for the rest of his life, he would try to serve and be useful to the people near him. I kind of imagine that Tigh and Ellen, of all people, might half-way adopt him, or at least look out for him. I don't know -- I can just see him telling Tigh about his Dad and about Kara (probably the first and last time he spoke about it), and Tigh saying something like, "You never catch a break, do you, son?" And Ellen would hug him, nicely, and it would be sweet and sad and unlike the people they used to be.

I don't think he'd seek out his father, but I think eventually Bill would come to him, to see the person he had become and to remember their shared losses. I think it would take a long time for that, though.

I can't remember who originated this thought, but someone once wrote in a story that their arrival at Earth had given them more than they'd *expected* but less than they'd *hoped.* There is always a bittersweet feeling about their story in my mind, for the Adamas especially, but really for all the characters.

I think Kara found her peace, and saw the beauty in her life and in herself that she'd never been able to recognize before. I think when she and Lee were reunited after death it would be sublime. "Now I see but through a glass, and darkly, but then it will be face to face. Now I know partially, but then I shall know fully, as I am fully known."

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

This is a lovely summary of what it might have been like after the finale. Makes my heart a little happier. :)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I have never thought too much about what would have happened to the fleet survivors on Earth after the series. I never liked the fics I read that showed Lee becoming an hermit or something like that because this choice in his part implies a kind of defeatism that doesn't match the Lee I know and love nor the kind of resigned peace he seeemed to have reached. So I guess I totally agree with you there.

I loved your thoughts about Tigh and Ellen. That would be perfect.

And that final quotation. Just perfect. I adore that passage. 1Corinthians 13, right? My favorite.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Haven't thought alot about it.

I think Lee does travel around exploring as it was the last thing he told Kara before she disappeared. Feels important to me that he fulfills that promise.

At some point after exploring for awhile he would settle down near the Agathons. Cause they are the closest thing he has left to friends.

I tend to believe Lee will not have children, because in that department he has so much heartache, that he would probably not want to go there.

Lee in the long term would put his energy to getting humanity established on this planet. I think staying idle would drive him crazy.

I like to think once Adama gets his cabin built, he'll go in search of his son. Once reunited perhaps they can share their heartache over the loss of their women they loved. Each wanted to build a life with an amazing women, but fate or god would not allow that to happen.

Once Lee does die, I think Kara would be there like she said she would in Maelstrom. Perhaps then they can find happiness together.