Cosette, sorry I am late to the party, as Bee mentioned elsewhere I was mountain climbing this weekend and being lazy too. Well done on the site and for co-hosting the re-watch! And how sweet that Señor Feraud made an appearance!
But you posed questions so here are some rambly answers to three of the four:
1) Well for a long time I thought there could be joy at some point for these characters. That when you are the last line of defence, the thing holding what is left of the worlds and society and life as it was known together, that maybe, if you didn't get blown out of the sky during the journey, that just maybe, you would get to lay down your burdens at the end. Be careful what you wish for. Some survived, favourites survived, but for me it wasn't joyful. So knowing the ending just makes me sadder as I watch a group of people still relatively unknown to me at this point in the series, but for whom I will be become more intimate than I ever have with a fictional TV family, fight for what they perceive is a fighting chance to live, when I know there isn't one. Someone christened the last three hours as The Great Betrayal. RDM's narcissistic butchering of 70+ of storytelling. This show was (and still is) a love story and a tragedy and a revelation. For me it was always about the relationships (okay, it was also about the explosions b/c anyone who knows me knows that I love when stuff gets blown up and I am the freak with a list of favourite missile shots), it was about losing everything, about what you do when you are left with nothing. Who do you become? Who do you want to be? What does four years of terror management do to a people/society? Yes, I am a political scientist by training. So I am flummoxed by abandonning family and friends to sit on a mountainside with your dead girlfriend and the last piece of technology which the editors neglected to include in that run for the sun. What was the point then of fleeing and fighting? Everyone loses essentially everything on the day of the apocalypse except for you - you still have your children, your best friend, your home, your toothbrush and at the end, you walk away from it all. I don't understand the message. Because for me it was always about the relationships. At the end, you fight for the relationships. I thought that's what it was all about.
As for pilots ... my perception has not changed. There was a story there. Obvious from the first moment. A complicated, messy, beautiful story and whatever they tried to feed us in flashbacks, it doesn't hold up with the dialogue and the looks and the actions of what was shown to us (of them with each other and with others). So much about the end baffled me but this particular relationship didn't. I still have great clarity about it. See you around Kara Thrace. That was a promise.
Is it time for question #2 yet?
2) Brig scene #1 (so much goodness to be had behind bars, non?) ... so much going on here that we knew nothing about. There was a story there and I wanted to know more about it. I don't recall if I thought it was a romantic story but it certainly had a physical quality that was coming out loud and clear through those brig bars. And I wanted a front row seat. And popcorn.
4) Starbuck. Starbuck. Starbuck. In RL I surround myself with people who possess the skills and characteristics which I feel are lacking in myself. I like to bask in their sunshine. So I adored Lee when he climbed out of his Mark VII all full of vinegar and piss because I recognized him but Kara ... Kara reeled me in with that first punch. She became a catalyst for me. And I am forever different for having known her.
Okay, I just wrote more here than I have in the history of the LJ - Bee will be so proud when she sees it and Tara will just get grumpy that I don't say enough on her posts (but will like that I am an avowed Kara!girl).
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2009-07-06 09:04 am (UTC)But you posed questions so here are some rambly answers to three of the four:
1) Well for a long time I thought there could be joy at some point for these characters. That when you are the last line of defence, the thing holding what is left of the worlds and society and life as it was known together, that maybe, if you didn't get blown out of the sky during the journey, that just maybe, you would get to lay down your burdens at the end. Be careful what you wish for. Some survived, favourites survived, but for me it wasn't joyful. So knowing the ending just makes me sadder as I watch a group of people still relatively unknown to me at this point in the series, but for whom I will be become more intimate than I ever have with a fictional TV family, fight for what they perceive is a fighting chance to live, when I know there isn't one. Someone christened the last three hours as The Great Betrayal. RDM's narcissistic butchering of 70+ of storytelling. This show was (and still is) a love story and a tragedy and a revelation. For me it was always about the relationships (okay, it was also about the explosions b/c anyone who knows me knows that I love when stuff gets blown up and I am the freak with a list of favourite missile shots), it was about losing everything, about what you do when you are left with nothing. Who do you become? Who do you want to be? What does four years of terror management do to a people/society? Yes, I am a political scientist by training. So I am flummoxed by abandonning family and friends to sit on a mountainside with your dead girlfriend and the last piece of technology which the editors neglected to include in that run for the sun. What was the point then of fleeing and fighting? Everyone loses essentially everything on the day of the apocalypse except for you - you still have your children, your best friend, your home, your toothbrush and at the end, you walk away from it all. I don't understand the message. Because for me it was always about the relationships. At the end, you fight for the relationships. I thought that's what it was all about.
As for pilots ... my perception has not changed. There was a story there. Obvious from the first moment. A complicated, messy, beautiful story and whatever they tried to feed us in flashbacks, it doesn't hold up with the dialogue and the looks and the actions of what was shown to us (of them with each other and with others). So much about the end baffled me but this particular relationship didn't. I still have great clarity about it. See you around Kara Thrace. That was a promise.
Is it time for question #2 yet?
2) Brig scene #1 (so much goodness to be had behind bars, non?) ... so much going on here that we knew nothing about. There was a story there and I wanted to know more about it. I don't recall if I thought it was a romantic story but it certainly had a physical quality that was coming out loud and clear through those brig bars. And I wanted a front row seat. And popcorn.
4) Starbuck. Starbuck. Starbuck. In RL I surround myself with people who possess the skills and characteristics which I feel are lacking in myself. I like to bask in their sunshine. So I adored Lee when he climbed out of his Mark VII all full of vinegar and piss because I recognized him but Kara ... Kara reeled me in with that first punch. She became a catalyst for me. And I am forever different for having known her.
Okay, I just wrote more here than I have in the history of the LJ - Bee will be so proud when she sees it and Tara will just get grumpy that I don't say enough on her posts (but will like that I am an avowed Kara!girl).