DPP: The Hard Fall

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Hey kids!

Today's discussion topic was submitted by caprican_dame and it's a doozy. Get your thinking caps on:

What if Lee couldn't pull away from the gas planet?

He was close enough to the "hard deck" that he saw Kara hit it. How was he able to pull away from its gravity when he was that close? What if he hadn't been able to?

If Lee hits the hard deck and comes out the other side in the New Earth's atmosphere...
If he walks away from his landing and goes about solo survival while he waits for the fleet to find him...
If Kara returns to Galactica to discover that Lee is "dead..."

How does Adama react to losing both Kara and Lee?
What effect does Lee not taking the stand have on Baltar's trial?
What happens when Kara comes back, but not Lee?
Who's there to take over the presidency when Roslin's on the Basestar?
Who picks up the pieces when Adama finds out about Tigh's cylonity?
How does Kara react when her showroom-perfect Viper starts picking up a second transponder signal, knowing what she found on the nuked Earth?
What is Lee's opinion of chucking all technology now, having actually lived for months with nothing but whatever he could use from his Viper?

Comments

[wand3rlust.livejournal.com]

This would have changed the dynamic of the show so much. Let's say Kara and Lee just disappeared (instead of actually blowing up) into the maelstrom.

I would worry about Lee possibly starving to death on the nuked planet, but my thinking is it wouldn't have taken them as long to find Earth 1.0 had this actually happend. I agree that Kara wouldn't return to the Galactica had she known Lee was behind her, but I'm going to assume she wouldn't remember how she got there/back kinda like on the show so she wouldn't have known Lee got sucked into it to begin with.

So we have Kara who shows up to the Galactica alive and I think that would make Adama be desperate enough to believe Lee possibly survived too. Of course he and Roslin would still be suspicious enough to think it could be a cylon trap, but I think Adama's promise from AOC would have proven true and that he would go look for Lee no matter what the cost. This might have been some excellent conflict between Adama/Roslin as well. Then on top of that we'd have Kara also finding out that Lee disappeared with her and she too would stop at nothing to get back to Earth to see if he was alive.

Damn... now I'm really wishing this would have happened. Maybe I'll make a vid about it if I can. LOL