DPP: You Can't Go Home Again

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Greetings friends, Romans, and fellow shippers. For the DPP this week, we'll be doing something a bit laid-back (that's how I roll). Lately, I've been engaging in some serious nostalgia. Now that we've just finished the first official shipper rewatch on this, the shipper rewatch comm, I thought we might take the time to just reflect and appreciate some of the fine episodes in this very fine show.

We talk about fanon a lot around here (and many of us tend to live there these days) which is all well and good, but this week we're going CANON-COMPLIANT. For the most part, anyway. Slight deviations are allowed. So here's the sitrep: every day will be dedicated to a certain episode or arc. I have chosen seven (at least one from each season) that I like a lot. Hopefully, you all like them too! So each day I will post a bit about the episode--some pictures, a video, quote or two, you know--along with a fic rec and maybe even some other fun stuff if we get really crazy.

[I do have episodes planned for the rest of the week, but they're not set in stone so let me know if there's one you REALLY want to talk about.]

Today we begin with one of my all-time favorites, YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN. 

Lee: I need to know something: Why did you do this? Why did we do this? Is it for Kara? For Zak? For what?
Adama: Kara was family.  You do whatever you have to do.  Sometimes you break the rules.
Lee: And if it was me down there instead?
Adama: You don't have to ask that.
Lee: Are you sure?
Adama: If it were you, we'd never leave.

This episode has everything: action, awesome characters, dramatic conflict between said awesome characters, moral questions about the survival of the human race and what to do in certain post-apocalyptic events, and the gooey emotional stuff at the core of it too.  PLUS it is the episode that, upon rewatch, made me really appreciate Lee as a character and more than just Kara's romantic interest.  All thanks to this scene:

It also gave us pilots flying together, complete with adorable wing-waggle:

Many thanks to ddt73  and pilotography for the clips. :)

The episode also gave us the possibility of pilots engaging in BATH TIME SHENANIGANS.  (If anyone is moved to write some YCGHA comment-fic, consider this your invitation!)

Lee: My gods, you smell like a latrine.
Kara: Mmm.  You want to give me a bath?

Maybe Lee didn't give her a bath in canon (or maybe he did!), but the episode still left us the possibility for some awesome fic of the hurt/comfort variety.

My personal favorite: Bum Wheel by spoonishly.

You can also check out this episode-themed list of recs, courtesy of thrace_adama : Aoc/YCGHA.  What are your favorite fics/vids/scenes/quotes from the episode?

Comments

[lizziec]

Not from this episode, but from this arc is when Lee calls Kara on the reason why she failed the nuggets. It was what she needed at that point and it was lovely to see Lee step up and instead of being intimidated by Scary!Kara says what needs to be said. I think it shows growth for Lee's character as much as Kara's and made me see them as equals, more so than the previous episodes.

In this episode I really love when Lee essentially demands that all the possible resources be expended in the search - the scene I'm thinking of is when he demands more ships from the Chief as he wears out Viper after Viper. You know that he wouldn't do that for any other pilot. The obsession in finding Kara is at least as much Lee's as Bill's.

Also, appropriate icon is appropriate.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

It was what she needed at that point and it was lovely to see Lee step up and instead of being intimidated by Scary!Kara says what needs to be said. I think it shows growth for Lee's character as much as Kara's and made me see them as equals, more so than the previous episodes.

I love that scene in AoC too! Like you said, it goes a long way towards depicting them as equals. We saw Kara challenging Lee in his role as CAG in 33, now we see returning the favor. It shows that he's comfortable in his own position in the military and his position as her friend. Plus they stand really, really close to each other.