OMG BSG FINALE
OMG BSG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG
OH MY GOD BSG
I am, overall, very very pleased with this episode, except one thing which I simply can not stomach and that is Kara's WTF DISAPPEARANCE OF WTF.
Everything else, despite whatever flaws and problems and whatever the fuck, I am totally cool with at the end of the day. It fulfilled my expectations of what the show is like and what it's about and so on. But KARA? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. I think what fucked me up most was that I could almost see Kara and Lee, stuck on that planet together, FINALLY just HAVING A LIFE TOGETHER, whatever that meant. No cylons, no missions, no spouses, no distractions, just building whatever they could with whatever they had. If that had been a friendship, at the end fo the day, I would have been fine with that.
But Ron Moore's bullshit "we didn't want to say what she was, either a messenger of god or an angel, but Kara Thrace died and then came back to guide the human race to safety and that was that, and so we just let her disappear to leave it up to the viewer to decide what she was" is some BUFFY CAME BACK FROM HELL bullshit DONE HORRIBLY WRONG.
I mean PARDON ME for mistaking Starbuck for AN ACTUAL CHARACTER during season 4! Foolishly I got invested in her storyline as a PERSON trying to cope with ressurection when in fact she was just an ~angel~ here to do a job WITH NO ACTUAL PERSONAL ARC. I now understand why she wasn't included in basically ANY meaningful plotline this season. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
There were ways of doing that and ways of doing that and having her go POOF in the MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A GOODBYE TO LEE (though at least we got a goodbye to Sam?) is just SUCH AMAZING BULLSHIT I HAVE NO WORDS.
No, seriously, SHE DID NOT EVEN SAY GOODBYE to Lee. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! WTF SHOW, WTF.
I've always shipped Kara/Lee, but I've shipped it in the sense that I found their relationship interesting and wanted to see where they'd take it - all I asked for was meaningful closure. I don't need a happily ever after or even for them to be together - just acknowledge that there was this THING between them, whatever it was, for THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE SHOW.
WHAT THE FUCK, SHOW, WHAT THE FUCK.
I leave you with the Point Of No Return from this episode, the moment MY HEART DIED OF JOY when I saw Lee and Kara coming out of that tent TOGETHER:
(this icon has never been more appropriate)
OH MY GOD BSG
I am, overall, very very pleased with this episode, except one thing which I simply can not stomach and that is Kara's WTF DISAPPEARANCE OF WTF.
Everything else, despite whatever flaws and problems and whatever the fuck, I am totally cool with at the end of the day. It fulfilled my expectations of what the show is like and what it's about and so on. But KARA? WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. I think what fucked me up most was that I could almost see Kara and Lee, stuck on that planet together, FINALLY just HAVING A LIFE TOGETHER, whatever that meant. No cylons, no missions, no spouses, no distractions, just building whatever they could with whatever they had. If that had been a friendship, at the end fo the day, I would have been fine with that.
But Ron Moore's bullshit "we didn't want to say what she was, either a messenger of god or an angel, but Kara Thrace died and then came back to guide the human race to safety and that was that, and so we just let her disappear to leave it up to the viewer to decide what she was" is some BUFFY CAME BACK FROM HELL bullshit DONE HORRIBLY WRONG.
I mean PARDON ME for mistaking Starbuck for AN ACTUAL CHARACTER during season 4! Foolishly I got invested in her storyline as a PERSON trying to cope with ressurection when in fact she was just an ~angel~ here to do a job WITH NO ACTUAL PERSONAL ARC. I now understand why she wasn't included in basically ANY meaningful plotline this season. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
There were ways of doing that and ways of doing that and having her go POOF in the MIDDLE OF A FIELD WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A GOODBYE TO LEE (though at least we got a goodbye to Sam?) is just SUCH AMAZING BULLSHIT I HAVE NO WORDS.
No, seriously, SHE DID NOT EVEN SAY GOODBYE to Lee. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?! WTF SHOW, WTF.
I've always shipped Kara/Lee, but I've shipped it in the sense that I found their relationship interesting and wanted to see where they'd take it - all I asked for was meaningful closure. I don't need a happily ever after or even for them to be together - just acknowledge that there was this THING between them, whatever it was, for THE ENTIRE DURATION OF THE SHOW.
WHAT THE FUCK, SHOW, WHAT THE FUCK.
I leave you with the Point Of No Return from this episode, the moment MY HEART DIED OF JOY when I saw Lee and Kara coming out of that tent TOGETHER:
(this icon has never been more appropriate)