This is the end: Battlestar Galactica, Daybreak

[amathela]

I really can't believe BSG is over. I wasn't caught up on it until tonight, but now I've watched the final episodes, so ...


Battlestar Galactica: 4-19 & 4-20 Daybreak

I'm really, really not sure what to think. I mean, on one hand, it was really epic and awesome, but on the other hand, the last half hour or so? I'm not entirely convinced that's how I wanted my characters to end. But there was a point where I was pretty much expecting a "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending, so ... I guess this was better? Even if most people did end up alone. Woe.

HYBRID SAM :( I really didn't want that for him, but ... oh, Sam. Flying into the sun! And his, "See you on the other side," to Kara, which, silly me, I once again didn't take the show quite literally enough. Like, I thought that was his way of saying goodbye or whatever, but he actually meant, "I'm not quite human, and you're not quite human, but in ... oh, about ten minutes, we'll both be gone, and we can get our rocks off in whatever not-quite-human afterlife there is out there. I'll wait up for you!"

The flashbacks were awesome, but, I guess I kind of have a thing for flashbacks. And Zak!! I think it really effectively nailed home the idea that Lee/Kara is a tragedy; that there will always be a (dead) guy between them. I'm fairly neutral when it comes to Kara ships (I have a slight preference for Sam/Kara, but I really like Lee/Kara, too), but I was glad that Lee and Kara didn't end up together - it would have felt too much like, "Well, we're both alone, so why not?" which isn't quite the epic ending I think they would have deserved, had the show gone that way. And ... it's not quite a happy ending, but the thought of Sam/Kara at the end of it all does fill me with some amount of glee.

GAIUS/CAPRICA!!! GAIUS/CAPRICA OTP!!!!! A few episodes ago, I realised I was really upset that the show was coming to an end and Gaius/Caprica was not going to happen. Like, I don't think I ever truly realised the depths to which I was convinced they were OTP (mostly because I don't think about them that much?), but it was really bumming me out, and this ... this was probably, like, my very favourite thing about the finale. Like, I think Gaius and Caprica ending up together made me even happier than Helo and Athena getting a happy ending, which I'm pretty sure makes me a bad shipper. But, GAIUS/CAPRICA! THEY ARE OTP. AND HEAD!GAIUS/HEAD!CAPRICA IS OTP. AND THEY WILL LIVE TOGETHER AND HAVE A FARM AND OCCASIONALLY REMEMBER THE WACKY HIJINKS THEIR HEAD!ALTER EGOS GOT INTO. AND HEAD!GAIUS/HEAD!CAPRICA WILL STILL BE OTP IN 150,000 YEARS.

The Fighting Agathons! I know I betrayed you a little with all the Gaius/Caprica flailing, but you guys are my favouritest. I was so very afraid that they were going to end tragically - that Athena would die, or Helo would die, or Hera would be taken away. But then, !!!!!! THEY ARE GOING TO TEACH HERA TO HUNT AND BICKER ADORABLY AND HERA WILL BE THE MOTHER OF ALL HUMANKIND. I'm really not sure I ever expected a happy ending for my favourite characters (and my ship!), so to say I was pleasantly surprised would be an understatement.

Boomer :( I'm kind of okay with her storyline - I think she was given just about the best resolution we could hope for, even if the in between bits were a big old mess. I really do wish it had all gone differently, and that, well, she didn't have to die. But I was totally expecting it, so. Still, I'll always love Boomer - my Boomer, the Boomer from the miniseries and season one, who was completely frakked over by the people she loved and by programming she couldn't control, and who couldn't quite put the pieces back together. ILU ♥.

Tory, who ... I never really cared about all that much, but how many female characters did they have to kill? I did love the revelation (finally) that she killed Cally, and I loved that Tyrol actually cared enough to basically lose it. I'm not the happiest that she died, but ... well, IDK. What is it about Tyrol that makes all his women kill each other?

And Racetrack! Who I was starting to think might not actually die (someone's got to live, right?), despite the red shirt she's been wearing for the past couple of years or so, and then ... But I'm glad she got out of the brig, and that she participated in the mission. Even if it killed her. Maybe. Does she get all the most bizarre recon missions or what?

Man, why do (almost) all my favourite characters have to die?

AND OMG THE OPERA HOUSE VISIONS. MOST EPIC EVER, Y/Y? I. LOVED. IT. Just ... in that moment, I really would have almost believed RDM if he'd claimed he had it all planned from the start. Because that was some epic, awesome tying-together-seemingly-dropped-plot-threads. THE AWESOMEST.

So. Like I said, I'm not sure if I'm thrilled with the ending - I actually have meta that's sort of about that, that I want to post later - but man, did I love the ride.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, ILU.


In honour of the occasion: community recs!

bsg_pornbattle. Prompting is open until the end of the 23rd, so you should all go leave some prompts. Because what's more cathartic than porn, really?

bsg_refrak. What better way to deal with the show ending than to start it all over again? The rewatch of the miniseries is beginning this week, and god, the nostalgia! Like, do you remember when Helo wasn't going to be brought back for the series? (No, seriously.) Or when Lee and Adama didn't get along? When Adama and Roslin didn't get along? When Kara and Lee were Starbuck and Apollo? When the entire series was so full of promise, and we had no idea how it was all going to end up? Come along for the ride!

Comments

[such_heights]

Ooh, rewatch! I have been rewatching the miniseries today, and eeee it is exciting and heartbreaking and so many things make so much more sense now - I sense this will be a continuing theme as I went through most of it so quickly the first time round. Everyone's so young and unbroken - I heartclutched an awful lot at Gaeta, and at Boomer and Chief. D:

Anyway, lots of yes on this whole post! By the way, I ADORE The Fighting Agathons as a thing, that's hilarious and awesome. This fandom is fun! Particular word on Sam, and the Sam-Kara parellels - I see vids in our future? I hope so. I was really sad for Sam but it was such a gorgeous end for him, and interspersed with his flashbacks etc.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

I am hoping for so many vids. I need Sam vids - this is, like, an epic, gaping hole in my BSG vid collection. And there's so much footage to work with in the last few episodes! Sam's ending was definitely bitterweet, and I did love the flashbacks. (Naked Sam with hair! ♥)

The Fighting Agathons are the most awesome - I will forever love Kara for coining the term.

[such_heights]

I may have started trawling through songs and everything, um. I really want to vid this show, but then, so much talent out there and also so much footage, it's a bit intimidating! We'll see, maybe after I've finished some other projects. But there should be MANY MANY Sam vids, yes.

Oh, I didn't realise the phrase came from canon, that's great! :D

[amathela.livejournal.com]

You should totally vid. BSG vidders are an amazingly talented bunch, but the fandom is so welcoming - and I adore your vids, so I'd love to see what you'd do with it.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yes, to pretty much everything--I could quote the entire thing and etc--

Like, I think Gaius and Caprica ending up together made me even happier than Helo and Athena getting a happy ending, which I'm pretty sure makes me a bad shipper.

NO IT DOES NOT. It just makes you flexible AND I AM STILL CAPSLOCKY ABOUT THEM. <3 <3 <3

[amathela.livejournal.com]

I'm very flexible when it comes to shipping, mostly. THERE'S ENOUGH ROOM TO LOVE EVERYONE.

AND, FLAIL! I REALLY NEVER THOUGHT GAIUS BALTAR COULD MAKE ME CAPSLOCK (IN A GLEEFUL WAY), BUT THERE YOU HAVE IT.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I might have shrieked and cheered when they were in that corridor together and, and, OMG. I had no idea I was in the least invested in them, AND THEN THERE THEY WERE--

And I didn't think I'd ever love Gaius. I HATED HIM so so much, in the beginning. And, at various times during the series, but now... now, he just. God. I sort of love him, though I think it's Caprica that I love more and I am suddenly realizing how incoherent I am about this, and it's SAD.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god, me too. I HATED Gaius in the beginning - as a person, as a character, as someone I was forced to watch on my screen. But then James Callis' performance made me appreciate him a little ... and then, I don't know, somewhere along the way, I started to find him entertaining, and now I just ... love him? Talk about totally unexpected endings.

And Gaius/Caprica - I honestly never realised I was all (potentially) OTP about them until I thought they weren't going to end up together, and then - in the corridor, with the making out? There was definite cheering.

And Caprica ... I really did not love the whole Tigh/Caprica baby storyline, and I hated that they made her sad, but !!!! I think she could be happy farming? AND SHE REDEEMED GAIUS BALTAR, WHICH IS A THING OF PURE, UNADULTERATED AWESOME.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I think the writers didn't like the Caprica baby thing, and I wish they'd changed their minds and never ever written it, because it was a horrible plot.

Also, it was all about Tigh and never about Caprica, and that was just annoying.

I think she's going to be happy farming and maybe helping raise Hera, and there could still be children in her future (and you know Gaius will be HORROR-STRICKEN at that thought, but endearing).

[amathela.livejournal.com]

and there could still be children in her future (and you know Gaius will be HORROR-STRICKEN at that thought, but endearing)

OMG, YES! Oh, I really want to read that fic now - because Gaius would totally freak the fuck out at the mere mention of children, but in an amusing and endearing sort of way, and Hera might be mitochondrial Eve, but there has to have been an Adam, right? So, at least some people must have had children, and god, I just ... want Caprica to be happy.

(And yes, to the helping raise Hera thing - because Hera has always had a million mommies anyway, and the Agathons could hunt and gather and Gaius and Caprica could grow stuff, and they'd be, like, a tiny happy rustic village.)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

help, I've got babyfic in my head now, and it is exceedingly wrong and pathetic. sigh.

I refuse to believe they didn't have a village and that the people we love best aren't all surrounding it. *sighs*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_cereza/]

I agree with basically everything you said. I could have lived without everything after Hera in the fields and Kara disappearing wasn't exactly the goodbye I would have wanted from her but I'm happy she's at pease. And agreed on the K/L ending. A 'they lived happily ever after' would just have contradicted everything we saw concerning that relationship.
I was never a Boomer fan but I can say that I loved the way they tied up her story. She got redeemed, after all, and having her join the fleet again would just have not fit Galactica.
God, I was so glad when I saw Helo walk that field.
and I loved that Tyrol actually cared enough to basically lose it.
Exactly. I was never really satisfied with the whole "I lost the one I loved, so I settled" thing. And seeing as I hated Tory with a passion, I screamed a little when he snapped her neck.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm still not sure how I feel about the very end, but the rest of it was totally awesome.

I think Boomer's ending was the best thing they could have done with it - I liked that she was able to redeem herself, a little, in the end, and that she accepted her fate - but mostly, I just wish her storyline had gone differently from an earlier point. But, well. Helo and Athena lived, so I'm mostly calling it a win. (There was a bit, earlier in season 4.5, where I was convinced they were going to kill Athena. And I was so afraid Helo was going to die after he got shot. So.)

I really hated Tyrol's whole awful speechifying after Cally's death, so, I was definitely happy to see him show some actual emotion and remorse and rage at finding out the truth. Even if it was a little late in coming.