Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Sorry this is so late! A nasty cold has made my sleep schedule completely crazy.

I feel like between Yuletide and pilots_presents, there's been a lot of writing lately, so it doesn't seem fair to ask for more drabbles (wait for later in the week ;) ), so how about some discussion?

What was your favourite part of season 1? (For purposes of this question, include the mini) Either for pilots or in general, back when everything was possible, before quadrangle and poof, what grabbed you in the first season?

Comments

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Leegasm! Hands down. It was the moment when I realized my cracky ship might actually be a validly canon pairing, and HOW. In general it took me until the last few episodes of S1 to really start getting into the show, and the K/L developments had a lot to do with it.

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

First of all I think 33 should stand as one of the best episodes of the series ever, if not the best. Had everything action, tension, feeling of war and handled it all as real as you could on TV I think.

Secondly, their relationship intrigued me. Sensing there was more to their story then we knew and trying to figure that much out. Over the course of the season, you knew they had feelings for each other, and had hope they could work their issues out and be together. At this early stage there was alot we didn't, so sky seemed the limit for them.

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

For me it was probably YCGHA. His determination to not give up looking for her and his sheer excitement when Starbuck was written right on the frakking wing.
That's when I thought 'there's more than friendship there' and then later on when the show really started to hit its stride and develop their relationship I became a full shipper.

I think what I like most about Season 1 is that we get playful!pilots every so often. The fingerpaint scene is full of win and the water hose scene is just so adorable. It's really the last we see of that. And like you said, there was no Sam, no Lee/Dee, no real awkwardness between them.

[wand3rlust.livejournal.com]

I agree with ddt73. 33 was fantastic! Right from the opening we were sucked in trying to figure out what was going on and what we missed while seeing everyone on edge with 5 days of no sleep.

But I have to admit the episode that completely sucked me in for good however was "Act of Contrition." It's when I felt like the writers really allowed "Starbuck" to become Kara Thrace. It's also when I really started to ADORE the idea of Kara/Lee as a couple and their crazy complicated relationship they were going to have work through. I also remember being REALLY excited that for once a couple I liked had a damn good chance of actually getting together.

What I loved most in general about season one was all the grey areas that were explored in morality, politics and just plain survival instincts. I loved that I sometimes loved and sometimes hated almost every character at one point or another during the first two seasons. I also loved how REAL the actions and decisions seemed to me.

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

For me, it was the miniseries when they first meet in the brig and it's clear they have so much history. And then the way Starbuck takes Lee's supposed death, when you see her unfold the picture and Lee's in it. And their reunion. And then I adored 33. I guess I 'shipped early and often?

As for the show, in season 1, I felt like this was a story that I wanted to know about - the reactions and actions of a small group of people who had survived the unthinkable. It seemed more "realistic" to me than later seasons (the water shortage, the way they're trying to figure out a political system) whereas in later seasons it was more about the Cylons (who were wonderful mysterious villainsi n season 1 but afterwards I didn't really care so much about them and yet I got so much of their story) and also, I felt the realism of the show took some serious beatings. (I know that they paid lip service to the idea with the algae planet and whatnot, but really, I had much more of a sense that people were down to their very last shoes/ books/ clothes/whatnot in the first season!)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to say AoC and YCGHA together because I watched them back to back and still think of them as one arc. I love those eps because they give us everything we need to know about Lee and Kara and Adama - as individuals and as a "family" - the backstory, the guilt, the forgiveness, the dogged searching because when it's family sometimes you gotta break the rules. Lee's vulnerability when he asked his father "if it had been me?" broke my heart. I love the scene with Kara in Adama's office in AoC the first time - when she plays it so cool because Adama didn't know about her passing Zak. Katee plays it so well and it's so painful to watch later, knowing what she's hiding. Gah. So frakking good.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

It's interesting to me to see the comments above that say it took till later in the season to think they might have a chance at being a couple that made it. I felt like I knew from the first interactions they had in the brig that this was THE COUPLE. They had so much UST! It was clearly the relationship that was going to take it's time and do the slow build before they could be together (unlike Dee/Billy and Cheif/Sharon which were the two couples kissing/hugging that preceded the Lee/Kara reunion in the hangar deck--I thought that was such a clear sign that this was the relationship that was going to be the big one for the show.) I never ever would have imagined the show ending WITHOUT THEM TOGETHER somehow. Foolish me.

But what I loved most about the first season is that... there was pain and strife and sacrifice and angst, but there were still happy endings and warm feelings. Kara did make it back from that planet and pilots laughed and flirted. Lee did, through ingenuity and bravery and showmanship, blow that target up and the fleet celebrated. Every victory of the RTF wasn't chased by doom. It may have been more conventional in the first season, but it also had so much more heart. The characters had emotional moments and really cared about each other, that lessened in favor of plot machinations later on.

And yes, the first season was mostly about the humans fighting a good fight. They didn't bother to explain the cylons in much depth but then later they kept shoving them at me and expecting me to care about them as much as the Fleet. Uh, no. There's nothing *there* for me to care about, because I had no idea what they truly live for.

Anyway, yeah, S1 and early S2 were the best. Everything changed after the Pegasus.

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

Pegasus is so bittersweet to me. I love pilots working together with the Blackbird and that they were transferred together but with the good comes the bad and Sam.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I think the suck happened after the Pegasus/Res ship arc I should clarify. I can't recall now where that season was split, if it was between the two res ship arcs or after Res Ship 2 but there was a marked difference after that. Lee's depression was quite the microcosm of a greater depression of the show I think.

[wand3rlust.livejournal.com]

Oh totally, I think the UST was right there from the very beginning, but in my case I have a terrible pattern of seeing UST between characters and it never panning out, so I was skeptical thinking that maybe I had my rose colored glasses on again. :D I kept waiting for the rug to be pulled out and was finally happy when it seemed like the story was building up as expected and there was no rug pulling that was going to happen after all... *sigh*

Oooh and I totally agree about the nice balance between the fighting/happy endings kind of elements to the show. :)

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Aww, they had me at hello. Brig scene! So much tension! So much history!

The miniseries as a whole is some of my favorite television OF ALL TIME, actually, and every scene that they have together in the mini is just like yummy icing on a delicious, delicious cake. Probably my fave is the ZOMG YOU'RE STILL ALIVE scene. Plus, I'd like to echo previous sentiments that 33 is some of the best work in the whole show. Absolutely fantastic television.

[zenzero42.livejournal.com]

in general:
Kara punching Tigh in the miniserie, I was like "oh yeah, I'm gonna love this show!"
And then, then Kara confessing to Adama the truth about Zak in AoC. For me that scene is the best moment of the entire serie. with that episode I thought "this is something new, we never saw something like that in sci-fi". and my love for Kara became adoration.

from the point of view of pilots:
"do I have to smack you on the mouth?" I was like "oh my god, there is something here, something intense"
and then in KLG1, Kara punching Lee, and Lee punching her back. I was astonished, I thought "ok, we never saw this kind of male-female relationship ever! WOW!"

[wand3rlust.livejournal.com]

Yes! The punch scene in KLG1! Absolutely agree. I think I had to pause it because I was so astonished that a show had the balls to go there and even more so that it worked.