This is my favourite post-finale story. It's about Caprica Six and all of Earth history. beccatoria's vids are also brilliant - I particularly recommend her very sad Ellen/One vid The Unforgiven Ones.
Yeah, the finale isn't terrible as long as you go into it with appropriately low expectations and don't expect it to answer any particular questions. What I most don't like about it is the way it closes off possibilities for fic by dumping everyone in a place from which there's really nowhere to go. I mean, we know that in a few generations they'll mostly have died off and the survivors won't even be farming anymore.
I also didn't like that all the Cylons get in terms of a future is a few lines of DNA through Hera. I wanted more for them than that. And I didn't see why, in the end, Hera was so important. I mean, she was genetically our ancestor, but so what? What are we that we wouldn't be if we weren't descended from a part-Cylon? The BSG humans don't seem so different from us that one strand of Cylon DNA made a difference. I'm still trying to puzzle out an answer to this.
I did like that for all their baffling inability to interpret Kara's fate in appropriately polytheistic terms they didn't go to the place of oh, now all humans are monotheist, and that makes the destruction of the twelve colonies worth it. They seemed close to that at some moments and um, no.
I don't believe Kara is a head!person, I think she's a pagan deified person just like we said. Or maybe a Lord of Kobol who just happened to be hanging out in human form for a while. Of course the other head!people might also be pagan deified people. Except that they are monotheists, so I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. But I also don't want to believe that head!Gauis is a completely different being from actual!Gauis, or that head!Six is a different being from actual!Six, because that would really ruin the importance they have to the people they're appearing to.
Would you have any interest in betareading the fic I'm working on? I only am asking because it is more or less about these issues. (Monotheism vs. Paganism, what Kara is and how that relates to her polytheism and Leoben's obsessive monotheism, what kind of religion humans and Cylons will have going forward.) I've finished two out of three chapters (about 16 single-spaced pages) and would be interested in your thoughts about how I'm handling Paganism and religious conflict. (I'd be looking for general comments, not a line-by-line betaread.) It's PG-13/R rated and very Kara/Leoben shippy.
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Date: 2010-11-14 12:12 am (UTC)Yeah, the finale isn't terrible as long as you go into it with appropriately low expectations and don't expect it to answer any particular questions. What I most don't like about it is the way it closes off possibilities for fic by dumping everyone in a place from which there's really nowhere to go. I mean, we know that in a few generations they'll mostly have died off and the survivors won't even be farming anymore.
I also didn't like that all the Cylons get in terms of a future is a few lines of DNA through Hera. I wanted more for them than that. And I didn't see why, in the end, Hera was so important. I mean, she was genetically our ancestor, but so what? What are we that we wouldn't be if we weren't descended from a part-Cylon? The BSG humans don't seem so different from us that one strand of Cylon DNA made a difference. I'm still trying to puzzle out an answer to this.
I did like that for all their baffling inability to interpret Kara's fate in appropriately polytheistic terms they didn't go to the place of oh, now all humans are monotheist, and that makes the destruction of the twelve colonies worth it. They seemed close to that at some moments and um, no.
I don't believe Kara is a head!person, I think she's a pagan deified person just like we said. Or maybe a Lord of Kobol who just happened to be hanging out in human form for a while. Of course the other head!people might also be pagan deified people. Except that they are monotheists, so I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. But I also don't want to believe that head!Gauis is a completely different being from actual!Gauis, or that head!Six is a different being from actual!Six, because that would really ruin the importance they have to the people they're appearing to.
Would you have any interest in betareading the fic I'm working on? I only am asking because it is more or less about these issues. (Monotheism vs. Paganism, what Kara is and how that relates to her polytheism and Leoben's obsessive monotheism, what kind of religion humans and Cylons will have going forward.) I've finished two out of three chapters (about 16 single-spaced pages) and would be interested in your thoughts about how I'm handling Paganism and religious conflict. (I'd be looking for general comments, not a line-by-line betaread.) It's PG-13/R rated and very Kara/Leoben shippy.