My rediscovered pilotsex love...
Oct. 24th, 2005 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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 I had it in spades when the show started but slowly it got superceded by Helo/Sharon love, and the Chief love and just general Apollo love.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...
