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[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

[Poll #1711336]

My favorite flavor of pilots is

<input ... >Fun and Flirty (Towels & Poetry, No Air in Shooting Range )
<input ... >Laden with Baggage (Any scene w/Zak implied or aborted sexing)
<input ... >Fightin' about Frakkin' (KLG punching, Unifinished Biz)
<input ... >Supportive & Loving (Under the Wing, Islanded, Walk those halls together)
<input ... >Buddy Cops (Mutiny!, Colonial Day, KLG In woods
<input ... >Extra Angsty (Taking a Break, LDYB 1/2, Eye of Jupiter)
<input ... >Friendlies (YCGHA, Flight of Phoenix)
<input ... >Epically romantic (Giving of Aurora, Shouting to Skies)
<input ... >Other (that I'll talk about in comments)
 

 

Which season has your favorite pilots interaction?

<input ... >Season 1 & first half of S2 (antagonism & innocent flirting mostly)
<input ... >Season 2.5 (angsty star-crossed lovers)
<input ... >Season 3 (infidelicious)
<input ... >Season 4/4.5 (supportive and mature)
<input ... >Your categories suck! (Let me tell you why in comments)
 

 

Which issues are your favorite pilots issues?

<input ... >You were almost my sister!
<input ... >Dad likes you better than me!
<input ... >My love's too big for you (and me), my love!
<input ... >You always hurt (punch, shoot, etc.) the one you love!
<input ... >I'll protect you from the doom of me!
<input ... >We married the wrong people!
<input ... >I hate you, I love you, I can't keep the pieces straight!
<input ... >Something always brings me back to you! It happens every time!
<input ... >It's just you and me (so what if everyone else is watching/betting?)
<input ... >You will bow to my superior wit (in the comments)!
 

ETA: Uh, I'm not sure what's up with the formatting and why this poll appears multiple times. It looks fine in the editing box. Just fill in the top one, maybe?

Comments

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Tara, I cannot thank you enough for the ticky boxes because I don't know what I would have done without them!!! :)

But in thinking about it, I think what I love most is the epic friendship beneath all of it. I think when the friendship is lost (like in season 3) everything else is in shambles. Because as long as they were friends, things were okay. And the love and trust comes out of that friendship. When they're just...everything to each other. Guhhh...

And I love mature Season 4 Piloticians. Because they were starting to get their shit together. *sigh*

I'm gonna go wibble in a corner now.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree, the friendship is elemental. I love when they are swoony and epically romantic, but I love the pure friendship between them too.

The poll answers are really intriguing to me. I'm shocked that no one has checked the infidelicious box yet! And also, really kind of pleased by how many people love early season pilots, despite their love of angst. You'd think a lot more peeps would love S3 considering. Huh.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Well there is an element of angst to the beginning, but it's more subtle. Where as season 3 really beats you over the head with it.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's all backstory angst at the beginning, and all internal.

Season 3 is much more external conflict/angst (and more contrived).

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

(and more contrived).
I think that's definitely part of it... why it's not as "favoritey" as Season 1... because I loves me my S1 pilots and that angst... says the girl writing mega angst right now

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

thinking of it, you're right. i mean, S1 is full of angst, but is different, is in between the lines, softer somehow

[reginaspina.livejournal.com]

I think the angst in season 1-2 comes out of a more interesting place (for me) than the somewhat contrived angst of season 3 (which was basically because the writers threw in these two other people into the mix). I preferred the angst that grew out of Lee's and Kara's own character flaws than the introduction of other people making for angst, you know? (Which is kind of what you said, actually, so I should have just read further in the thread :P)

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yeah I always prefer internal to external angst as well. Probably because it seems the most genuine when we get in our own way versus when we let others get in our way.