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

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

The healing timeline of around 35 days just really stretches my suspension of disbelief.
Very true. But I feel compelled to play the devil's (or rather writer's) advocate and try to find some way around this inconsistency. One aspect is that 35 days seems far too short given our medicine, but we don't really know what technology they might have for healing bones. Obviously this isn't Harry Potter and they can't fix you up immediately, but for all we know they could heal something like Kara's knee injury in a matter of weeks. Also, we're talking about a deleted scene (when Cottle says it'll be a long time) which is questionably canon. /writer's advocate

I know that they were pretty short handed but would they really have risked the Vipers and lives of some kids who not long before had been struggling to land?
Actually, I think the answer to this is a resounding "Yes." They couldn't maintain a CAP without those nuggets--no way could they pull off the tylium mission and they were all going to die without that tylium. So yes, if they were willing to give a nugget (Hot Dog) his wings after just two training flights, then I think it's safe to say they would put those nuggets in the air after three weeks of training.

[lizziec]

I know you're just trying to be a writers advocate, but I always felt it was fairly clearly established that Colonial medicine in the series is at about the same level as medicine in the here and now. I'm more of the opinion that the timeline here is wonky than that the colonials had some amazing knee healing medicine ;)

Having read your comments about the nuggets/asteroid thing though I'm with you on that now. It was clearly an all hands on deck situation to enable them to survive, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that all possible pilots would be pressed in to service.

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

i'm with you on most of the things that you said here but this they were willing to give a nugget (Hot Dog) his wings after just two training flights i sort of doubt. we should remember that HotDog was a Fight School wash-out so he was the one with some experience not only in flying but flying Vipers (at least on simulators and stuff).