DPP: You Can't Go Home Again

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

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

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

Others have already mentioned my very favorite scenes, but Kara's whole working out how to fly the Raider and talking to herself was just gold. It could have come across as boring, silly or just completely unbelievable, yet Katee manages to convince us that, sure, Starbuck could actually do all this and crack jokes along the way.

I know people seem to view Wiki as gospel, but I'm inclined to question just how compressed the timing is as presented. Besides, I never let facts get in the way of my beliefs ;^)

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Wiki is not gospel. There's one thing I noticed is absolutely wrong. They have getting captured and sent to the farm on day 61 and being rescued on day 62.

So she has 2 surgeries in less then 24 hours? All those times she falls asleep and wakes up, only one day passes? This has to be over several days. There's no way they could have done all this in one day or she wouldn't have been able to get up walking. To say it is one day flies in the face of common sense.

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

Yes, I noticed the Farm discrepancy, too. Simon talked about how when she'd been brought in and we clearly see both night and morning scenes and like you said about multiple surgeries and her being drugged. Just not possible in 24 hours.

We shall be the voice of reason calling Wiki to task for faulty timing! Shout it with me, brother!

[ddt73.livejournal.com]

Yes! WIKI IS NOT GOSPEL.

I was looking at the timeline last night, I think they have season one to season two up to FotP compressed. This causes them to spread the episode over a very long period of time. FotP by its design happens over a non determined length of time. It's one of those episodes that defies placing a true time period on it.

In my mind season one takes place over three to 4 months. I think the first few happen quickly together, but then the middle (while Kara is recuperating) is over a longer period of time. I mean the rookie pilots had to be trained enough to fly the mission in Hand of God. If they weren't ready they would have waited before the attack. Which tells me quite a bit of time had to pass from the end of YCGHA and the mission in Hand of God. More then just a month.

It's fairly clear that from Flesh and Bone to the end of Six Degrees of Separation happens over at least a couple weeks time. Cause Adama had to find out about Ellen, then go over their several times, then it's probably another couple days once Ellen is on the G.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

don't know why but what you are saying seems very ok to me. i wonder if it might be because it has logic to it

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

Whoa, I never noticed that before but it's so not true! I always figured The Farm was around 3 days, at the least (although how she does all that hiking on Kobol is still something of a mystery).