DPP: Pimping the OTP in the mainstream!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

So for today's DPP, I have a little request to make. :)

Both myself and our other lovely comm leader, thrace_adama would love it if you checked out my essay on our beloved pilots, Nobody Told Me Battlestar Galactica was a Romance, over at the new romance/pop-culture website Heroesandheartbreakers.com.

In the essay, I list my top five reasons for shipping pilots like burning. We'd be thrilled if you guys wanted to stop by and comment, comment, comment on the post, suggest your own reasons, point out the things I forgot (because at 1100 words, there still wasn't room for everything I wanted to say about them!), etc. (I, uh, may have borrowed some of your brains to write the essay too. Shhh! I promise to give them back!) 

There is even a fangirl glossary and links to here, SASA and various other BSG sites! Check out the fun tags too, like "hot is an understatement!" Hee.

Here's a sneak peek from the article...

They have a connection that is unparalleled. The word soulmate is bandied around a lot these days, so much so that it’s often mocked. But I can’t think of a better word to describe Kara and Lee. They seem bonded at an elemental level. It’s something that’s there in the first moment they meet each other (which you don’t actually get to see until the show’s final episode) and they fight it like the dickens, but it’s irrepressible, incontrovertible . . . even a little co-dependent. Over the course of the show, they’re split apart again and again by conflicts internal (crushing guilt!) and external (other spouses!), but they’re pulled back together again and again, because they need each other.

I'll be doing two more pilots/BSG/romance essays for the site in coming weeks. But aside from that, if you're a fan of fictional romance in any form, HnH is a great site. You can also follow them on twitter: @heroesnhearts.

Thanks guys! I'll be responding to comments over there as well, so hope to see you!

Comments

[acsgrlie.livejournal.com]

Awesome article taragel! I agree with all the points you mentioned especially

3. They almost never talk about their relationship. Subtext is text in this relationship. Kara is a doer, Lee is a thinker, neither one is a talker. Instead of long discussions about what things mean or where they stand, the real emotion and currency of their relationship is often expressed through their complete disregard of personal space boundaries when they get near each other. Or the way their voices break sometimes when they say each other’s names (and oh, lords, do they love to say each other’s names!). Accidental touches, meaningful eye contact—these are the telltale signs of their simmering, repressed love. The actors have an insane amount of chemistry—it’s like you can almost see the air crackling between them when they lean into each other—and the UST* is sky-high all the time.

YES. YES. and YES. It's all about the subtext.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[kittykiernan.livejournal.com]

Omg, this is amazing. You completely summed up everything I love (well ok, maybe not EVERYTHING, because that would take a novel!) about Lee & Kara. The subverted gender roles (screw you, Dirk), the "you are everything I have" thing, and the fact that no matter what happens, they just. can't. stay. away. You totally nailed it.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Hee, I hit 1100 words (100 past the max word count they wanted and I still had a ton to write! I had to do some very judicious cutting! Lol.) THanks very much.