A Living Nightmare

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

The Cylons had a plan... And it was pretty awful. It didn't really get expanded upon much but what do you think about the "farms" (Gah, gives new meaning to the words "farm system" for the pyramid players, don't it? Now I want someone to write Sue-Shaun ruminating on the "farm system" huh. I might have to prompt that in the fic battle post.) BUT I DIGRESS... so what did you think of this aborted storyline? (er, no pun intended!) What ramifications would it have had if they'd further explored it, not just for Kara but for the rest of the Fleet? I can't remember if she used this rationale in her pitch to go back for the Caprica survivors but I don't remember Roslin or Adama addressing it as a real concern.

Comments

[samstareagle.livejournal.com]

I think the writers never realized just how evil they had made the Cylons to be, not withstanding the fact that the Cylons had did have a genuine detachment from understanding why this was so awful in the first place. They didn't just blow up a civilization, they hunted down and raped whoever they could find that was left. Sweeping that under the rug made it look like the writers were trying to rewite their story's own history to be able to get away with a "forgiveness" arc that in truth never felt appropriate after that. But then again, they had to fall back on the Star Trek "Let's make everybody get along by the end of the story" technique, that never did work with BSG in the first place.

I totally agree, they should have kept running wit this. It's like saying you're depicting WWII in a completely REAL and DARK and TRUTHFUL way, but never mentioning the holocaust, the firebombings of civilians in Europe, the horrors of the Eastern front, the Japanese' brutality to the Chinese and POWs, and of course the aftermath of unleashing atomic weapons on the world. You wipe that stuff out, you're basically lying for history's sake, and you lose the right to say you're out there on the edge showing the truth of your subject matter.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

It never made sense to me why we were supposed to forgive the cylons because humans had created them in the first place. A sin of creation does not equal a sin of (massive and utter) destruction to me. The constant idea that it was the humans' own damn fault made about as much sense as saying it's the parents' fault if their kid turns into a serial killer.

[imelda72.livejournal.com]

Well said.I think they got caught up in the cylons as characters, though, rather than acting out of a desire to make everybody happy.

This was a disturbing but excellent, and fundamental, story element, and they absolutely should not have dropped it.