BSG shipper confusion...
Nov. 30th, 2006 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOh, Battlestar Galactica why do you confuse me so?
I mean with the shipping :P
You have made me a conflicted multi-shipper and that never happened before.
True, my number one ship (by miles) on BSG is Helo/Sharon (or I guess Helo/Athena now :P) and I never shipped either one of them with other people just because I can't see that. Sharon betrayed her species for Helo, and is the only Cylon who definitely learned to love and overcame her programming entirely so far and Helo? He's been in love with Sharon since the mini and certainly went through 17 kinds of hell to keep her.
But. But. I want to talk about Pilots! now. A.k.a Kara and Lee and the whole thing with Dee and Anders.
See, things were so simple in S1. I shipped Lee and Kara. The end. Since their first interaction in the mini, before we even met Caprica Sharon, before we even knew Helo would survive past the miniseries and not get nuked into oblivion. What was not to love? Two tough, strong, complicated pilots who were best friends and had chemistry leaking out of their ears? The end of S1 left me a rabid shipper: what with Kara calling Lee's name while having sex with someone else and Lee going on a psycho jealous fit.
And then we got season 2. And Kara met one Samuel T. Anders down on Caprica. That episode, 'The Farm' was not one of my favorites. The main plot seemed a bit odd and I was annoyed at the mere thought of Anders, or as some people referred to him 'Lee-lite.' Now, the fact that Kara and Anders hooked up didn't surprise me. The girl always had a healthy libido and Anders was quite an attractive man and just Kara's type: good-looking, athletic, strong and a leader of a doomed rebel group. Perfect, in fact. But the whole implication that what she felt was more than a temporary hook-up, that she gave her dogtags to him, and promised to return made me somewhat grumpy.
And I was still a very rabid Kara/Lee shipper. How could I not be with things like Lee kissing her when he sees her alive again? K-I-S-S-I-N-G, people. And their friendship? And the bonding? And the hot hot making out of 'The Scar?'
But of course, 'The Scar' made the confused shipper in me surface. Because the make-out was hot but it was clear that while Lee wanted emotional involvement, Kara was *gasp* freaking out about Anders. AND wanting Lee at the same time. This is where I began to be as mercurial as my favorite female character on the show. At the time, I still wanted Kara/Lee but I began to think that maybe it wasn't going to work out. Kara was too divided, too unready for anything with Lee, though ready for something with Anders.
And then we got the two parter season 2 finale and my inner shipper went AWOL. Because OMG. Anders was back. And he was rather cool. And Anders and Kara were adorable. And then Kara was a bitch to Lee. And then...season ended.
When the season ended, I was sort of undivided. I lost a lot of interest in Kara/Lee because they didn't seem to be able to work out. I like my ships dysfunctional but with some chance of success. And I liked Anders. A lot. And Lee seemed to have settled in with Dee. But I didn't really have new strong ships among those characters.
And then we got season 3. And somehow I became a rabid Anders/Kara shipper. Maybe because I discovered that Anders was made of awesome and won't back down to Kara or anyone but is not idiotic either. Or maybe it was the scene where he found her in detention and it was a mix of freaking out (whether she was hurt) and joy and love. Or maybe it was the totally heart-breaking scene where she told him she can't be with him because she is too damaged AND THEN KISSED HIM. As I said, I like my OTPs fubar.
So now, I am quite strongly Kara/Anders, right? Right. How about poor Lee? Well, I found Lee and Dee rather dull to watch together (I didn't dislike them but they didn't hold my interest) but then we got that scene where Lee told her he was proud to have her as his wife and I went AWWWW. I am easy, I guess.
So great, right. Everything resolved, right?
Except apparently not. Because reading of the Kara/Lee centric nature of the upcoming episode made me SQUEE so loudly that the paint is still peeling. But now is the crux of my dilemma. I love and want Kara and Anders together. But that would mean depriving self of lovely lovely Kara/Lee. But if we get Kara/Lee, I will be upset about not having Kara/Anders.
Am confused.
And threesome is unlikely on the show.
What to do what to do what to do?
In a way, this is sort of similar to my Roslin/Adama/Zarek thing. I don't ship any of them seriously, but Adama and Roslin are totally like this old married couple you adore yet Zarek is the no good neighbor that you totally want to get together with Roslin :P
And we are not going to start on the whole 'I really liked Boomer and the Chief together but now I think Cally and the Chief are a great married couple. even though Cally is the one who shot Boomer way back.'
Show, quit messing with my head :P
I mean with the shipping :P
You have made me a conflicted multi-shipper and that never happened before.
True, my number one ship (by miles) on BSG is Helo/Sharon (or I guess Helo/Athena now :P) and I never shipped either one of them with other people just because I can't see that. Sharon betrayed her species for Helo, and is the only Cylon who definitely learned to love and overcame her programming entirely so far and Helo? He's been in love with Sharon since the mini and certainly went through 17 kinds of hell to keep her.
But. But. I want to talk about Pilots! now. A.k.a Kara and Lee and the whole thing with Dee and Anders.
See, things were so simple in S1. I shipped Lee and Kara. The end. Since their first interaction in the mini, before we even met Caprica Sharon, before we even knew Helo would survive past the miniseries and not get nuked into oblivion. What was not to love? Two tough, strong, complicated pilots who were best friends and had chemistry leaking out of their ears? The end of S1 left me a rabid shipper: what with Kara calling Lee's name while having sex with someone else and Lee going on a psycho jealous fit.
And then we got season 2. And Kara met one Samuel T. Anders down on Caprica. That episode, 'The Farm' was not one of my favorites. The main plot seemed a bit odd and I was annoyed at the mere thought of Anders, or as some people referred to him 'Lee-lite.' Now, the fact that Kara and Anders hooked up didn't surprise me. The girl always had a healthy libido and Anders was quite an attractive man and just Kara's type: good-looking, athletic, strong and a leader of a doomed rebel group. Perfect, in fact. But the whole implication that what she felt was more than a temporary hook-up, that she gave her dogtags to him, and promised to return made me somewhat grumpy.
And I was still a very rabid Kara/Lee shipper. How could I not be with things like Lee kissing her when he sees her alive again? K-I-S-S-I-N-G, people. And their friendship? And the bonding? And the hot hot making out of 'The Scar?'
But of course, 'The Scar' made the confused shipper in me surface. Because the make-out was hot but it was clear that while Lee wanted emotional involvement, Kara was *gasp* freaking out about Anders. AND wanting Lee at the same time. This is where I began to be as mercurial as my favorite female character on the show. At the time, I still wanted Kara/Lee but I began to think that maybe it wasn't going to work out. Kara was too divided, too unready for anything with Lee, though ready for something with Anders.
And then we got the two parter season 2 finale and my inner shipper went AWOL. Because OMG. Anders was back. And he was rather cool. And Anders and Kara were adorable. And then Kara was a bitch to Lee. And then...season ended.
When the season ended, I was sort of undivided. I lost a lot of interest in Kara/Lee because they didn't seem to be able to work out. I like my ships dysfunctional but with some chance of success. And I liked Anders. A lot. And Lee seemed to have settled in with Dee. But I didn't really have new strong ships among those characters.
And then we got season 3. And somehow I became a rabid Anders/Kara shipper. Maybe because I discovered that Anders was made of awesome and won't back down to Kara or anyone but is not idiotic either. Or maybe it was the scene where he found her in detention and it was a mix of freaking out (whether she was hurt) and joy and love. Or maybe it was the totally heart-breaking scene where she told him she can't be with him because she is too damaged AND THEN KISSED HIM. As I said, I like my OTPs fubar.
So now, I am quite strongly Kara/Anders, right? Right. How about poor Lee? Well, I found Lee and Dee rather dull to watch together (I didn't dislike them but they didn't hold my interest) but then we got that scene where Lee told her he was proud to have her as his wife and I went AWWWW. I am easy, I guess.
So great, right. Everything resolved, right?
Except apparently not. Because reading of the Kara/Lee centric nature of the upcoming episode made me SQUEE so loudly that the paint is still peeling. But now is the crux of my dilemma. I love and want Kara and Anders together. But that would mean depriving self of lovely lovely Kara/Lee. But if we get Kara/Lee, I will be upset about not having Kara/Anders.
Am confused.
And threesome is unlikely on the show.
What to do what to do what to do?
In a way, this is sort of similar to my Roslin/Adama/Zarek thing. I don't ship any of them seriously, but Adama and Roslin are totally like this old married couple you adore yet Zarek is the no good neighbor that you totally want to get together with Roslin :P
And we are not going to start on the whole 'I really liked Boomer and the Chief together but now I think Cally and the Chief are a great married couple. even though Cally is the one who shot Boomer way back.'
Show, quit messing with my head :P
