DPP: Historical pilots

[lizziec]

Hello everyone :) So yesterday we looked at the neuroses, psychoses and maladies of Pilots and those around them. Today's DPP is Historical Pilots (hello, still marking history exams!). I'm pretty sure we've had this one recently, but I swear it was in my calendar before the post in question and as I'm rather in love with the idea, it stays ;)

Which historical period would you place our pilots in? How would they get on there? Would they do a similar sort of job to the one they do in the colonial fleet? How would the constraints of the time affect them?

For example, I could kind of see them in World War Two. Lee would, of course, be a fighter pilot and I imagine Kara working for the Air Transport Auxiliary (yay! a flying job for women in World War II), accidentally coming across a dogfight and saving Lee's skin with some awesome manoeuvre. Or Kara coming up with some way to disguise herself to join the air force proper :)

And if Lee existed in the Napoleonic Wars times I could see him being a Hornblower type - duty and loyalty and sometimes doing the right thing even if it's not exactly straight (like pushing the captain down into the hold). Which leads my brain to wonder if Lee was Hornblower, would Archie be friends with him and still die to protect him as he did in Hornblower (Retribution?) first by taking bullet and then by claiming that Hornblower's crime was his own as he was going to die anyway. Oh god my brain...</sidetrackking tangent>

Feel free to drabble or just throw out there/discuss your thoughts on our pilots in Earth's history :D

Comments

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Though seeing them go out in a hail of bullets together wouldn't be any worse than what Canon does to them ;)

Actually I wouldn't have minded a canon ending that had Lee and Kara go out in a hail of bullets kind of fitting actually. My beef with the poof is more about shoddy writing and abandoning Lee than it does about a 'happy ending'. If Lee had also been dead, Kara going 'poof' would have been much less painful.

Although I agree that I can't imagine them driving into an ambush. Not unless they wanted to. ;)

[lizziec]

Actually I wouldn't have minded a canon ending that had Lee and Kara go out in a hail of bullets kind of fitting actually

Yes, I've always thought so - I kept saying on Monday's DPP comments that I would prefer that Kara's death, and Lee's presumed death were more meaningful. I could have lived with meaningful deaths.

Although I agree that I can't imagine them driving into an ambush. Not unless they wanted to. ;)

I can't help thinking that even if they did end up in an ambush Kara'd pull some crazy manoeuvre and they'd escape anyway. Maybe they'd drive into the ambush to liven up a boring afternoon? ;)

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

Actually I wouldn't have minded a canon ending that had Lee and Kara go out in a hail of bullets kind of fitting actually.

Right, that would've been great. I can see the look when they realize that this is IT. A bit of a smile, a small nod of the head and then the same thing they always do, fight them until they can't. That's a hero's ending for both of them. Which is fitting because they were the action heroes of the series.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I choose to see Daybreak, Part 2 as affirmation that pilots were EPIC and went far, far beyond the usual clichés attached to fandom ships from the moment they set eyes on each other. And no one is going to convince me otherwise.

That final scene in the field would have been flat as hell on paper. But what left me convinced that despite its ending, it really was pilots all the way, was the look on Kara's face when she realised she was about to poof - she didn't look happy, she looked heartbroken. I always thought the lack of a proper goodbye was because she didn't trust herself to hold it together in front of Lee the way she did in front of Bill. It wasn't because he didn't mean enough to her, it was because he meant too much.

*sigh* I wouldn't have minded them going down together, either. But I'll take whatever tiny scraps of consolation I can dredge up from canon/make up in my head, especially since pilots have RUINED me for any other ship, ever.