DPP: Down Nostalgia Lane....

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Today's DPP is simple enough, and it's also something I've wondered about for a long time in our little fandom: when did you guys realize you'd started shipping pilots? What was the moment that made you fall in love with them and know that this was it for you, that they were your OTP, and there was no going back?

I've always thought that pilots practically hit us around the head with the repression and the romance and EPICNESS right from the miniseries, until the time - a few years ago now - when I found a bit of meta from someone who said that Scar (deep in the second half of S2) was the episode that made her see Lee and Kara's relationship as a romance. Considering that this happened after several episodes and moments that I considered pivotal to pilots - all the UST and eyefrakking, the Colonial Day dressing-up, the Leegasm and post-Baltar-frak angst, and even Lee's welcome-back kiss and inadvertent  "I love you" to Kara in Home, and that's just for starters -  I was more than a little surprised. But I'm still curious to see how long it took each of you to climb aboard the ship, and what brought you there.

In any case, here is my own story of how pilots first won my heart, before they ripped it out of my chest and tore it to tiny little shreds and then put it back, thus ruining me for other fictional couples forever  (partly taken from an old diary, because I actually fangirled them ON PAPER).

Here goes....

1.

Pilots' first meeting, and our first sight of the Bamceps (that last bit is a side note).
My reaction: Oh hey, bratty daddy-issues-having attractive young male lead and bratty loudmouth jock attractive young female lead are friends! Ha ha, I am Genre Savvy and these two are going to have UST/future hookup, I call it now!


2.

Kara's just been told (in not quite so many words) that Lee is dead.
My reaction: oh no, oh no, I think there was already something there from her end....

3.

My reaction: oh my, her face! Poor Kara, no wonder she looks like that, she was secretly in love with him all along...

4.

My reaction: OH MY GODS JFKPISHSPILOVETHEMOMGTHEYREALREADYINLOVEFSKLP!!!!!
(and oh Gods, they're going to spend ages guilting over the dead little brother because they were in love when she was still with him OMGTHISISEPIC and they were in love all along he loves her too and they're just too repressed jfksrlpsolapollolovestarbuckjhssk!!!! and look at how he's holding her hand and they're looking into each other's eyes and they're not kissing, why isn't the ship on fire from UST? squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  kiss already, dammit!!!!!!! squeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!)

5.

My reaction: that is IT. That settles it - she loves him, loves him beyond reason, and I'm in love too. Have to watch the series now. Oh no, I can't go back to watching Alias after this, Sydney and Vaughn seem so whiny and boring, aaagh.....


What about you, shipper nation? What was it that sealed the deal on pilots for you - was it there right from the start, or did you take a while to warm up to them, and what made you sure it was love? Comments, pics, gifs, commentfics - whichever way you choose, tell us about it!

Comments

[sparklegirl79.livejournal.com]

And doesn't all scuttlebutt lead eventually to Cally? And Cally would fill her Chief in, wouldn't she? ;)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Cally totally would, lol.