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sophieisgod) wrote2009-03-21 06:58 pm
sophieisgod) wrote2009-03-21 06:58 pm
No Reason To Get Excited (EXCEPT THERE TOTALLY IS BECAUSE OHHH, THIS SHOW, THIS SHOW)
OH GOD, MY SHOW HAS ENDED, AND IT WAS GLORIOUS.
+ Gaius Frakking Baltar
OH MY DAYS. I just, I cannot believe how far I have come with this character. Looking back at my response to the mini, and all the gleeful and bemused adoration I had for his vaguely ridiculous self-perservation-y coackroach ways, and the overwhelming and unashamed total love I have for him now... Let's put this in context. I didn't really cry that much during the episode, just a few tears sniffles here and there and a lot of grasping![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thedreamygirl's hand and squeaking wildly. Not at Galactica breaking her back; not at Sam flying into the sun. Gaius saying, "You know, I know about farming," had me completely broken down, sobbing and gasping all over the fucking place. I just, it's the same reason I cried harder at the end of Big Fish than I have at any other film ever; it's the idea that someone will take this thing they hate, that they have always tried to avoid becoming, and they will go there, will go there wholly and gladly for love. CRYING LIKE A TINY CHILD. JAMES CALLIS DID MY DEGREE, BITCHES.
You know, now we're in a position to be able to look back on everything, I think you could make a really strong argument for Gaius and Caprica being the OTP of the entire show - more than Helo/Athena, Progenitors Of Humanity As We Know It, more than the Admiral and the President, more than the Cylon Soulmates, more than any one of Kara's pairings. I am so, so happy with how they turned out. Loved his (admittedly unsurprising) decision to stay and fight, loved how generous she was with him after he did it (remember how they were making me cry with their brokenness, like, a fortnight ago?), loved her actually being able to be proud of him. AND THEN THE WONDER OF HEAD!SIX AND HEAD!GAIUS! Them being able to see the other angel/demon/unnamed entity really kind of reminded me of Will and Lyra touching each other's daemons. OH YOU CRAZY KIDS IN PROPER LOVE AND EVERYTHING. I said it last week, but I really did adore their flashbacks; I loved the cut from him basically selling the entire human race for love to the two of them on Earth - Caprica is so much gentler now, she's lost that hard edge of slightly manic desperation, and Gaius is.. stiller, maybe? KILLED ME WITH THE HAND ON THE FACE, GUYS.
+ Kara
Ohh, my girl. I feel like this was a gorgeous ending for her; these past few episodes we've seen her kind of peaceful acceptance of her death, and really she's been wanting this since New Caprica and maybe even before. She's an angel, WHAT. A messenger. Harbinger. And she did her shit, and now she can be at peace. And HOMG, WHEN SHE RASPED OUT "THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT HERE" I FOR SERIOUS FLIPPED MY SHIT. AND THEN THE MONTAGE, WITH THE MUSIC AND WEE!KARA AND LEOBEN CALLING HER AN ANGEL. OH SHOWWWW. OH KARA. OH BEAR MCCREARY.
+ Lee Adama is idealistic love
OH LELAND. Did anyone else feel that the tragedy of his S4 politico!bouffant was only compounded by the EXTREME HOTNESS of his flashback!hair? FAIL. And ohhh, I loved how much he loved Earth 2.0 - HIS HAIR ACTUALLY MADE SENSE THERE, I FEEL. Although, one of my only niggles with the episode (and it was a fairly major one) was Lee's attitude to the do-over. Starting fresh is A Good Thing, I agree, but technology and education and intelligence and knowledge and science are not inherently bad things, and treating them as such is scary and stupid. That's all, really, although the attitude to the indigenous peoples was also... charming. YAY WE CAN BREED! LET'S GIVE THEM LANGUGAGE! Whatever, Ronald.
+ Kara/Lee
OH KIDS. I feel like their flashback said it all very eloquently; they were fucked from the beginning, for so very many reasons. Those two have the worst timing. I love them, but I'm so glad the show didn't force them into an unnatural resolution. Although, if they'd tried, I suspect Sackhoff would have cut a bitch *tosses her Kara/Leoben tinhat, woop!* I felt so bad for poor Lee, though. EVERYONE JUST LEFT HIM, and now he will just have to be a lonely explorer. BUT BUT BUT I FEEL SO VINDICATED BECAUSE A YEAR AGO I SAID: Kara is the search for Earth, Lee is what we do when we get there.
+ Samuel T. Anders
I think Sam's ending is the one that makes me the saddest. He looks so awful, lying there so cold and pale in the Hybrid goo, babblin Hybrid-speak, and it KILLS ME everytime they intercut it with his gorgeous monologue about why he loves Pyramid, ach. ILU Sam, and I loved Kara's goodbye to him.
+ Let's wrap this mutha up
OH MY DAYS, I THOUGHT THEY HAD KILLED HELO! But Helo lived! Hooray! I think Boomer and Chief's endings, as sad as they were, were pretty much the only things left to those characters at this point. WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE 4.17, MY LOVES! ♥ Something else I didn't really appreciate? DEAD TORY. I always feel kind of bad for Rekah, because the showrunners did nowhere near enough with the character, and, as such, she essentially became fandom's whipping boy. Poor Tory. YAY CYLON SOULMATES! Saul and Ellen in a strip club made me deliciously happy. Adama throwing up on himself, not so much. OLD PEOPLE IN LOVE! Adama putting the ring on Roslin's finger was so beautiful, and then him just sitting by her grave, telling her about the cabin. OHHH ♥ I really wish there had been more Leoben in this half of the season, but hey, he's happy (AND HE HAD BETTER HAVE LOTS TO DO IN THE PLAN). Hotdog lived! THE OPERA HOUSE REVEAL GAVE ME CHILLS!
And now I don't quite know what to do with myself.
+ Gaius Frakking Baltar
OH MY DAYS. I just, I cannot believe how far I have come with this character. Looking back at my response to the mini, and all the gleeful and bemused adoration I had for his vaguely ridiculous self-perservation-y coackroach ways, and the overwhelming and unashamed total love I have for him now... Let's put this in context. I didn't really cry that much during the episode, just a few tears sniffles here and there and a lot of grasping
thedreamygirl's hand and squeaking wildly. Not at Galactica breaking her back; not at Sam flying into the sun. Gaius saying, "You know, I know about farming," had me completely broken down, sobbing and gasping all over the fucking place. I just, it's the same reason I cried harder at the end of Big Fish than I have at any other film ever; it's the idea that someone will take this thing they hate, that they have always tried to avoid becoming, and they will go there, will go there wholly and gladly for love. CRYING LIKE A TINY CHILD. JAMES CALLIS DID MY DEGREE, BITCHES.You know, now we're in a position to be able to look back on everything, I think you could make a really strong argument for Gaius and Caprica being the OTP of the entire show - more than Helo/Athena, Progenitors Of Humanity As We Know It, more than the Admiral and the President, more than the Cylon Soulmates, more than any one of Kara's pairings. I am so, so happy with how they turned out. Loved his (admittedly unsurprising) decision to stay and fight, loved how generous she was with him after he did it (remember how they were making me cry with their brokenness, like, a fortnight ago?), loved her actually being able to be proud of him. AND THEN THE WONDER OF HEAD!SIX AND HEAD!GAIUS! Them being able to see the other angel/demon/unnamed entity really kind of reminded me of Will and Lyra touching each other's daemons. OH YOU CRAZY KIDS IN PROPER LOVE AND EVERYTHING. I said it last week, but I really did adore their flashbacks; I loved the cut from him basically selling the entire human race for love to the two of them on Earth - Caprica is so much gentler now, she's lost that hard edge of slightly manic desperation, and Gaius is.. stiller, maybe? KILLED ME WITH THE HAND ON THE FACE, GUYS.
+ Kara
Ohh, my girl. I feel like this was a gorgeous ending for her; these past few episodes we've seen her kind of peaceful acceptance of her death, and really she's been wanting this since New Caprica and maybe even before. She's an angel, WHAT. A messenger. Harbinger. And she did her shit, and now she can be at peace. And HOMG, WHEN SHE RASPED OUT "THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF WAY OUT HERE" I FOR SERIOUS FLIPPED MY SHIT. AND THEN THE MONTAGE, WITH THE MUSIC AND WEE!KARA AND LEOBEN CALLING HER AN ANGEL. OH SHOWWWW. OH KARA. OH BEAR MCCREARY.
+ Lee Adama is idealistic love
OH LELAND. Did anyone else feel that the tragedy of his S4 politico!bouffant was only compounded by the EXTREME HOTNESS of his flashback!hair? FAIL. And ohhh, I loved how much he loved Earth 2.0 - HIS HAIR ACTUALLY MADE SENSE THERE, I FEEL. Although, one of my only niggles with the episode (and it was a fairly major one) was Lee's attitude to the do-over. Starting fresh is A Good Thing, I agree, but technology and education and intelligence and knowledge and science are not inherently bad things, and treating them as such is scary and stupid. That's all, really, although the attitude to the indigenous peoples was also... charming. YAY WE CAN BREED! LET'S GIVE THEM LANGUGAGE! Whatever, Ronald.
+ Kara/Lee
OH KIDS. I feel like their flashback said it all very eloquently; they were fucked from the beginning, for so very many reasons. Those two have the worst timing. I love them, but I'm so glad the show didn't force them into an unnatural resolution. Although, if they'd tried, I suspect Sackhoff would have cut a bitch *tosses her Kara/Leoben tinhat, woop!* I felt so bad for poor Lee, though. EVERYONE JUST LEFT HIM, and now he will just have to be a lonely explorer. BUT BUT BUT I FEEL SO VINDICATED BECAUSE A YEAR AGO I SAID: Kara is the search for Earth, Lee is what we do when we get there.
+ Samuel T. Anders
I think Sam's ending is the one that makes me the saddest. He looks so awful, lying there so cold and pale in the Hybrid goo, babblin Hybrid-speak, and it KILLS ME everytime they intercut it with his gorgeous monologue about why he loves Pyramid, ach. ILU Sam, and I loved Kara's goodbye to him.
+ Let's wrap this mutha up
OH MY DAYS, I THOUGHT THEY HAD KILLED HELO! But Helo lived! Hooray! I think Boomer and Chief's endings, as sad as they were, were pretty much the only things left to those characters at this point. WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE 4.17, MY LOVES! ♥ Something else I didn't really appreciate? DEAD TORY. I always feel kind of bad for Rekah, because the showrunners did nowhere near enough with the character, and, as such, she essentially became fandom's whipping boy. Poor Tory. YAY CYLON SOULMATES! Saul and Ellen in a strip club made me deliciously happy. Adama throwing up on himself, not so much. OLD PEOPLE IN LOVE! Adama putting the ring on Roslin's finger was so beautiful, and then him just sitting by her grave, telling her about the cabin. OHHH ♥ I really wish there had been more Leoben in this half of the season, but hey, he's happy (AND HE HAD BETTER HAVE LOTS TO DO IN THE PLAN). Hotdog lived! THE OPERA HOUSE REVEAL GAVE ME CHILLS!
And now I don't quite know what to do with myself.
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I could wax poetic about the things I loved about the finale, one of which being Kara & Lee talking about how Daddy Adama wasn't coming back this time (putting the ring on Roslin's finger almost broke me).
Really, though, I loved it. Especially how it all tied nicely together - it started with Caprica!Six and ended with her, and gave everyone the endings that were right for them.
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I was so terrified that on top of it all they actually were going to kill Helo since after he was shot, like six times, and then disappeared for the length of a Bible. But then things were happy fun times. Yay.
I have pretty much nothing else constructive to say as I agree with everything you said.
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First of all, I was so so very terrified that they'd killed Helo. My one wish was for him to make it through okay. I full-on freaked when they shot him and then WE DIDN'T SEE HIM FOR SO LONG. Seriously, when I spotted him in the distance there were actual sobs of joy.
Okay, me crying in the episode? I can't lie, there was a lot of it. But the things that hit me the hardest were Sammy and his "see you on the other side" had me sobbing (OH SAMUEL T, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS IN WHICH I LOVE YOU) and them cutting in his speech about why he loves Pyramid was heartwrenchingly perfect. Bill putting the wedding ring on Laura's finger and telling him about the cabin had me sobbing. GAIUS BALTAR, I HAVE NO WORDS FOR YOU, SIR. You know, the thing that had me crying the hardest (I'm talking ugly, gasiping for breath, mascara allll over my face sobbing) was "What do you hear Starbuck?" "Nothin' but the rain." IDK, IT JUST REALLY GOT TO ME.
I'm okay with the way they left Kara and Lee. I would have been more thrown off if they would have got a "happy" ending, because that just wouldn't fit with their arc? The fact that they remain unfinished as it were fits them better, as tragic as it is. BUT I HAVE FAITH THAT LEELAND WILL GO ON TO DO GREAT THINGS. ILY LEEEEE.
Also, fuuuuuck, BEAR MCCREARY ♥
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I thought he was properly dead! Especially because Athena looked so broken in the CIC. And then I was all "Aren't they even going to show us his funeral? FOR SHAME" but then HE WASN'T DEAD SO EVERYTHING WAS AWESOME, WOOOOP!
I can't believe I forgot to mention "Nothin' but the rain"!!!! OH OH CALLBACKS, YOU MAKE MY SOUL CRY PERFECT TEARS.
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SAMUEL T. ANDERS. He's another one that I couldn't have imagined loving so fiercely - remember when he was introduced as The Kara/Lee Obstacle and fandom kind of loved him against their will? SAAAAAM. PYRAMIIIIID. PERFECTION, OH.
NOTHIN' BUT THE RAIN, OH GODS, I can't believe I forgot to mention it. OH ADAMA AND ALL HIS FAKE DAUGHTERS ♥
I loved the Kara/Lee ending; it amuses me that there are so many people disappointed by it. Like, how did they think those two would ever let themselves be happy together? Self-sabotage, thy name is PILOTS.
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how did they think those two would ever let themselves be happy together?
THIS. Kara and Lee were never going to be in a healthy, happy, stable relationship together. That's one of the main reasons I ship them if I'm honest. Giving them a ~happy ending~ just WOULD NOT HAVE FIT. I love those kids a lot but I love them the most when they're being dysfunctional and desperate and angsty.
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And, funnily enough:
ONLY PROMPTING ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS! "I'm the father." "I'm the boyfriend." "I'm his boyfriend."
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SHOW SHOW SHOW SHOW SHOW SHOW OH MY GODS SHOW *SOBS*
I think you could make a really strong argument for Gaius and Caprica being the OTP of the entire show. DEFINITELY. The show ended with the two of them, plus the amazing arcs that both Gaius and Caprica underwent.
Kara Starbuck Thrace, you are my number one.
When Lee said "I wanna explore!" I got this big, goofy smile on my face between my tears. Did anyone else feel that the tragedy of his S4 politico!bouffant was only compounded by the EXTREME HOTNESS of his flashback!hair? AHAHAHA HELL YES.
I am really, really, really, really glad that Kara and Lee didn't end up on Earth 2.0 with a house and babies. I kind a thought that was going to happen after Adama and Roslin left, I thought Lee and Kara were gonna kiss and live happily ever after. But, no. Gods, when Kara disappeared my heart broke in two. For so many different reasons. She's gone, I didn't want her to go I loved her too frakking much, but then I was so goddamn happy. She did what she was supposed to do. She was at peace. The look on her face was beautiful. And now, she's going to see Sam.
Sam's "see you on the other side" was heartbreaking. But I think he said it because he knew he was going to be with Kara.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE REST OF MY LIFE. SOPHIE, HELP ME MOVE ON.