My rediscovered pilotsex love...
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dangermousieI ended up watching Battlestar Galactica last night. Specifically, I ended up watching "33," which still remains my favorite BSG ep ever. How many shows can you say that about? That the Pilot episode is your favorite, and not because the other eps are just not that well-done, but because it's just that good!
And you know what else watching 33 reminded me of? It reawakened my long dormant Kara/Lee love. I had it in spades when the show started but slowly it got superceded by Helo/Sharon love, and the Chief love and just general Apollo love. I did fall off the K/L ship when they were separated for 5 whole eps in the beginning of this season (and unlike the DVDs, where 5 eps is nothing, an evening or so, in real show time this is over a month and it builds up), not to mention Kara's happy fling with Anders to whom she seems to have gotten emotionally attached, but then I think of the kiss afterwards, and I think I am sucked back in...But it's a much warier ship for me now. I have no idea if they'll end up ultimately together, and I have no problem if they have sex with other people on their "way to find each other" or just because, as long as we still get all that wonderful interaction, with the best friends, and the underlying sexual attraction, and the really incompatible personalities.
But watching them interact last night, watching them bursting into helpless, strung-out giggles, hearing Lee's soft "should I hit you in the mouth, Lt?" and his "I am glad I am not working for you" made my heart turn over and over in my chest and I am back to my helpless ship of the two. Not to mention the deleted scene where she smart-asses about demanding a transfer and he replies that he needs to see it in writing, to which she replies she will go and find a pen. And they are both utterly exhausted and still reeling from the destruction of their worlds and are in combat and they still find this oasis of happiness with each other. When they are together, the world for the two of them becomes just a bit righter. These two just work.
To prepare myself for shippy dissapointment, I have convinced self that I will be satisfied on the K/L front if all we get from Kara/Lee is the much more photogenic and younger version of Adama-Tigh partnership (Lee is so smarter than Kara, and she can so kick his butt, heeee), and as long as we see them interact I will be fine (unlike with Logan and Veronica, whose interactions I enjoy a lot, but they better get together for good, or I will hurt somebody). I watch BSG for many many reasons and K/L is just one of them, plus I can always get my K/L fix in fanfic, after all. But who am I kidding? If they ever get together, there will be squeals of the porcine variety in my house. And if they ever become any sort of a couple, dysfunctional or not? Glee, glee, glee...
And you know what else watching 33 reminded me of? It reawakened my long dormant Kara/Lee love. I had it in spades when the show started but slowly it got superceded by Helo/Sharon love, and the Chief love and just general Apollo love. I did fall off the K/L ship when they were separated for 5 whole eps in the beginning of this season (and unlike the DVDs, where 5 eps is nothing, an evening or so, in real show time this is over a month and it builds up), not to mention Kara's happy fling with Anders to whom she seems to have gotten emotionally attached, but then I think of the kiss afterwards, and I think I am sucked back in...But it's a much warier ship for me now. I have no idea if they'll end up ultimately together, and I have no problem if they have sex with other people on their "way to find each other" or just because, as long as we still get all that wonderful interaction, with the best friends, and the underlying sexual attraction, and the really incompatible personalities.
But watching them interact last night, watching them bursting into helpless, strung-out giggles, hearing Lee's soft "should I hit you in the mouth, Lt?" and his "I am glad I am not working for you" made my heart turn over and over in my chest and I am back to my helpless ship of the two. Not to mention the deleted scene where she smart-asses about demanding a transfer and he replies that he needs to see it in writing, to which she replies she will go and find a pen. And they are both utterly exhausted and still reeling from the destruction of their worlds and are in combat and they still find this oasis of happiness with each other. When they are together, the world for the two of them becomes just a bit righter. These two just work.
To prepare myself for shippy dissapointment, I have convinced self that I will be satisfied on the K/L front if all we get from Kara/Lee is the much more photogenic and younger version of Adama-Tigh partnership (Lee is so smarter than Kara, and she can so kick his butt, heeee), and as long as we see them interact I will be fine (unlike with Logan and Veronica, whose interactions I enjoy a lot, but they better get together for good, or I will hurt somebody). I watch BSG for many many reasons and K/L is just one of them, plus I can always get my K/L fix in fanfic, after all. But who am I kidding? If they ever get together, there will be squeals of the porcine variety in my house. And if they ever become any sort of a couple, dysfunctional or not? Glee, glee, glee...
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Date: 2005-10-24 03:33 pm (UTC)1. she was surprised
2. having Roslin, Zarek and Meiers looking on was probably a bit of a downer
3. she was thinking about Anders
"You love me"
Dreaming"
hee hee.
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Date: 2005-10-24 03:38 pm (UTC)Btw, love the "Dark Ship" icon :P
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Date: 2005-10-24 03:43 pm (UTC)I agree, DM, they are so good together. I've fallen off my K/L shippery wagon, but I still love them together in some capacity. If they get together I'll be thrilled, and if not, it will be ok. I thought the shooting range scene where they were suffocating together was really hot. But then I'm all about torturing Lee...he wears it well. :D The actors have so much chemistry together that it's insane.
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Date: 2005-10-24 03:48 pm (UTC)Yup. Never thought I'd say that after the end of season 1, with the calling out his name while having sex with Baltar thing, but the TPTB really dialed back the shippy angst for the two. Of course, rewatching S1 is bringing it all back...
Torturing Lee? I should probably add it to my lj interests...*sigh*
Btw, that icon? Is really raising the temperature here...
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:14 pm (UTC)LOL, I love this icon, because I always think that this moment between them is more hot than the kiss itself (which is too fleeting). Jamie and Katee have this delicious way of just looking at each other, or looking at the other's mouth, that is just...yum. It would be such a shame for that kind of chemistry to go to waste!
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 03:47 pm (UTC)1. Helo/Sharon
2. Kara/Lee
3. Helo/Kara
4. Helo/Racetrack
5. Lee/Dualla
6. Apollo/Sharon
Given some time, I could probably work up some more. But, yeah, I'll be right there with you in the squeeling, etc., if Kara and Lee ever get their acts together and become a real couple.
Whether it's Kara/Lee or Kara&Lee, I'm so there.
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Date: 2005-10-24 03:50 pm (UTC)For me, since I am such a canon nazi, ships are generally more limited, so for BSG it's:
Helo/Sharon
Kara/Lee
I used to be Sharon/Chief as well, but that obviously came to an untimely end.
Billy/Dee is there and is cute, but I don't care one way ot another.
I could certainly see the potential for Roslin/Adama if she wasn't dying. Or Chief/Cally, or (though I can't see it go deep) Lee/Dee, but they'd have to wait for the time (if ever) they become canon :)
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:02 pm (UTC)No I don't normally lurk in Roslin/Adama land but I wrote a Doc Cottle piece a while back and then someone recommended this to me and I read it.
After I wrote my Lee/Dee thing, Jeff wrote and said: "Please. Please promise me you won't write Lee/Roslin".
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:17 pm (UTC)Sorry, not a Billy fan ;) Even Gaeta's got more Sex Appeal than Billy .... and that's saying a lot ... That being said I seem to have seen Gaeta/Dee suff floating around. Meep. I call that "Eek Ship"
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:12 pm (UTC)*approves*
Carthage must be destroyed!
Carry on.
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:13 pm (UTC)On the bas side, I am now raring at the bit for January. I want them together, dammit!
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:28 pm (UTC)I miss my hot pilots so much. I need to see them together again. While I, quite infamously, am of the opinion that pilotsex must happen, I just love watching them in scenes together. Any scene. Doesn't matter what they're doing, their chemistry is just so off the charts, which I feel was something proven beyond all shadow of a doubt when they managed to make asphyxiating sexy. Dude, I'm still going "omgwtf?!" over that one.
Also, word on the 33 deleted scenes. I looooove the one in the head. Also, I like how in the one where Lee is giving his little speech to the pilots about a job well done, he specifically, pointedly looks over to Kara when he says, "I'm proud of you," and then she grins at him.
Mmmm, pilotlove. Better than pie.
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:39 pm (UTC)Just...Oblivious Lee with the picking and the jodie singing and Kara and her Sexhair of Torment is all "Lee, shut up."
shdf
And then, "You don't look that bad. Not...not really. plzmakesweetlovetome."
Gnah. I am sort of dying just thinking about it. AND I HAVE A CLASS THAT I AM SUPPOSED TO WALKING TO IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES! I cannot be ded. *is in the campus cafe*
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:40 pm (UTC)Oh yes. best K/L moment ever. He has such a clueless, sweet, hopefull, little boy tone of voice. Now I can't concentrate. Guuuuh.
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:47 pm (UTC)OMG and I forgot to mention him EXTENDING HIS HAND in the beginning and then she won't take it, because she is so emo over her unfulfilled and tormented desire to have sex with him and he's just, "Oh, so it's like that?"
Guhsdbfasdlf.
Also, "Lieutenant, it's our favorite time of day," which sent me spiraling off into a million thoughts of how he's totally been looking after her recovery personally himself since his LOVING CONCERN in Six Degrees of Seperation. jhshdjsad.
Oh, pilots. WHY ARE YOU SO OTP?! *spazzy*
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Date: 2005-10-24 04:49 pm (UTC)Oh yes...and of course his going to Tigh to talk him into helping Kara get up and he knows her so well to know which buttons to push and now I have a desire to hug the deleted scenes and the thought of them running every day and now I am thinking about the look on his face in season 2 when he realizes it's Kara come back and guuuuuuuuuh.....
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Date: 2005-10-24 05:00 pm (UTC)1) Because it seems weird without that scene, because, wtf, why would Tigh care enough to go down there at all? And knowing that Lee sent him puts into perspective that he's not lying when he says he doesn't care one way or another. He really, really doesn't, which is why he had to be sent there.
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2) Just, yes. Lee knows her so well. So well. It makes me so happy. As does the look on his face when she walks up. And how he leans on her crutches, because, omg, he was so cute playing with her crutches that entire episode. Which, of course, filled my mind with thoughts of Lee playing with her crutches all the time, as they spent endless amounts of time together as she is recovering.
re: Home.
The pure, unadulterated joy on his face when he hears Kara's voice is just...beautiful. Then when she comes around that corner and she was just so tired and weary and fucked up, but as soon as she sees Lee we get that tiny zoom and the Pipey Music of Pilotlove comes on (same music they played when she reappears in FotP) and she just lights up. They go in for that hug and there's a split second when she just sort of breathes him in and buries her face in his shoulder because it's like their worlds were so askew and just off in some intrinsic (much like the show itself was, omg, when the principles were all split up for those five episodes), but now that they're back together things have shifted back into place.
And...I am totally late for class. But I feel as though sitting in the cafe rhapsodizing about pilotlove over the internet is a good reason to be so.
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Date: 2005-10-24 05:04 pm (UTC)Oh yes. And that reminds me of when she is rescued at the end of YCGHA and she asks him if he wants to give her a bath and you see his brain short circuit and those two are just beyond adorable together.
she was just so tired and weary and fucked up, but as soon as she sees Lee we get that tiny zoom and the Pipey Music of Pilotlove comes on (same music they played when she reappears in FotP) and she just lights up.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And their faces are even cooler and sexier than the kiss and the tone of voice he gets when he hears it's her, just as the delirious joy in YCGHA...just perfect.
And later when he tells her he loves her and if she wants to talk and....
rhapsodizing about pilotlove over the internet is a good reason to be so.
heck yeah.
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Date: 2005-10-24 09:55 pm (UTC)This is great news, darl. And now I know you'll be reading my fic because you like K/L, and not just because you're a flistie. Eee! *dances*
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