Fanfiction made reality?

[fembuck]

One more reason to love BSG! They take a fanfic phenomenon and make it cannon!

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS ... AHEAD!






In "Pegasus," Admiral Cain was keeping cylon Number Six (Tricia Helfer) prisoner, and the relationship between the two was, well, extremely antagonistic to say the least. According to SyFy Portal, in earlier, happier days, the two were actually lovers. Here are the details:

"Cain and Gina were quite close," a source tells SyFy Portal. "In fact, they were lovers. We don't exactly come out and say it, but you'd have to be sleeping through the middle of all this to not pick up on their relationship."

"We've gone out of our way to make sure that it wasn't thrown in there just to throw it in there," the source said. "The love between the two sets up a [dramatic] device of betrayal, and what scorned love can create in the heat of the moment. Finding out your lover is really the enemy might not be new, but this should be a fresh perspective."

I mean, in my head Cain/Gina was already totally a love story with the worst break-up ever and no matter what the show said I always would have believed it to be true. But it's extremely cool that TPTB are making it cannon (and taking it seriously!).

Plus, Michelle Forbes and Tricia Helfer possibly kissing/suggestive touching/standing close to each other/making bedroom eyes at each other onscreen is something that I would never, ever protest to seeing ... despite how horribly the relationship ended.

Also, it will nice to see Michelle as Cain again. As a testament to Michelle's amazing acting prowess I was actually really interested in Cain, I can't say I really liked her, but I thought she was interesting, and didn't like that she kind of came off as a creature of pure evil. BSG is all about human faults and failures, and gray and so seeing why Cain became the way she did could be interesting. And you know Michelle would rock the house with it!

I'm so excited, I'm so excited, I'm so ... ... scared, I mean excited (damn you, Jesse Spano!)

Comments

[teh-no.livejournal.com]

This completely makes up for making Baltar the center of the Six/Xena/Baltar triangle. I mean, it'd be nice if the one canon homosexual relationship didn't end with one person letting the other be gang-raped, but hey, that's Battlestar Galactica for ya.

[ralst.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that the knowledge of what's to come won't totally spoil the enjoyment of Cain/Gina and, like you said, show us the grey areas in her personality. Plus, more Michelle Forbes! She made the character so utterly scary and totally fascinating all at the same time. It's just a pity we won't get more Cain/Starbuck subtext too.

[padawanmage.livejournal.com]

I remember reading one fic on this idea and reading reviews like 'Aw, this'll never happen' or some such. Gee, who's laughing now?

;-)

[trancer21.livejournal.com]

It's going to take me awhile to process this 'cuz, like teh_no there's a part of me that's like 'great, another evil/dead lesbians story'.

But there's the other part of me that thinks this'll be like a really, great dark, tragic and really, *really* fucked up love story. Which... wo0t!! 'Cuz I'm all about the dark and tragic with totally fucked up characters.

I just.. I wanna get excited but I don't wanna get my hopes up too much, this way, I won't be disapppointed.