DPP: From the Vaults: An Ode to Infideliciousness

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I don't know about you guys, but I tend to do a lot of backreading in people's journals and at beyond_insane  and sasa_hq when I'm in need of a good old-fashioned pilots fix. Now that canon is over (and with the way it ended so poorly for our main peeps), our enjoyment of the show tends to be more fanon-based than canon-based. But it's really nice every now and again to go back and see what some real-time canon-based squeeing looked like. 

To that end, I came across this in-depth recap/post of the raptor scene in EOJ posted by daybreak777  a few weeks ago and it made me so joyful to read, that I asked permission if I could post it here, for nostalgia's sake. Feel free to discuss this scene (and maybe whether or not infideliciousness works for you? I know a lot of the older crew stopped watching at the s2/s3 break for many reasons, but not liking the Quad of Doom and thinking K/L were jerks in it was a big one), or share some other vintage posts that make you gleeful. 

 

 

 

From daybreak777, originally posted here at sasa_hq

My favorite scene? At first there, I thought, there are so many! But I think it was Eye of Jupiter. I know, I liked the quadrangle, sue me!

The raptor scene was my favorite. It was like fan fiction come to life, all I ever could want from them at that time. Because my friends, it was hot.

I think the scene got to me because it was a surprise. Last we saw, they were hugging saying, “I mished you” and then people were hungry and radiation-exposed. Our pilots were last seen handing out white cards during briefings like a kickass tag team. Someone had died and he was watching out for Kara in the background. That was it.

Next thing we know Kara is landing a raptor with that damnable smirk of hers talking about barrel rolls looking sweaty and hotter than ever. (Came in a little hot indeed. ;-) ) She just pauses and Lee gives her this look, raw and naked. Every single thing I ever wanted Lee to say to her aloud is in that look. That look alone was worth this scene to me. (Favorite part #1.) Looks like he wants to strip her naked, do her right there. I remember feeling surprised, thinking, Dayum, Lee!

But then, (and dudes, I didn’t even have to rewatch the scene for this post, it’s all imprinted on my brain. And heart.) he takes her in his arms and there is stripping off flight suits and kissing. SO MUCH KISSING. And I remember my heart pounding, shipper bells and whistles going off, thinking, “Oh my God, they are kissing. Don’t let it stop!” Good kisses too. The kind of kisses of people who can’t keep their hands off each other, who have tried and have given up the ghost of trying. At all. I was surprised at Kara. She seemed to be just going for it, not at all the frightened, unsure woman of UB. I didn’t care about spouses or algae or any of that. I only wondered if the door to the raptor was open. ;-)

Then they cut away and I thought, 'Okay, they’ll talk now. We got some kisses. Good.’ But NO. We come back and they were still kissing! That was it for me. All this kissing had continued. Surely they’ve accepted that they have to be together and that it’s ridiculous that they are apart. Lee even voiced this. Things were bad, right? Let’s tell everyone. (Lee, poor Lee, did that work before? This let’s tell everyone. Shut up and more kissing! Until she’s breathless. I forgive him because he can’t stop touching her. Sigh.)

Then Kara looks all adorable and confused and says something unintelligible about religion. All I hear is that she is not saying no to him. She still wants you, Lee! She just wants you both.

Then comes my favorite, favorite part. (Favorite Part #2) The part when he leans his forehead on hers and goes, “Every time. Every time.” Then they just . . . breathe. They are both totally lost. This is NOT THE FIRST TIME. OMG! There had been more kissing incidents. Excellent. And they can’t stop. OMG.

Then Lee breaks my heart and tears himself away from her. Tears himself, you can see, almost hear the rip of Velcro as he does it, they were that together. NOOOO!!!!!!! He just keeps saying he can’t, he can’t, he can’t.

Poor Lee. He really can’t. Except he already is cheating and has been since the moment he married Dee but no matter. He has his principles. To go against them would break something in him. And then comes favorite part number three! Kara ACTUALLY HEARS HIM. She gets this little broken look on her face, but she accepts it. She won’t push him. She knows what it would do if she made him give up his principles. She doesn’t want to do that to him. Doesn’t want him at all costs. I had expected her to get mad and storm out. But she didn’t. She can’t. She still wants him. Badly. Can’t be without him. Can’t be with him. Can’t be selfish and break him because then she’d lose the part of him she loves, the part she feels is clean and good and so unlike her. She finally understands him and accepts it and doesn’t walk away. This is so huge for her; I lose my ability to be articulate about it.

“So I won’t divorce and you won’t cheat. Where does that leave us?”
“Trapped.”

Awesome! Trapped together in love and lust. I LOVE this scene with the passion and heat of all things hot and passionate. It’s amazing I could even type this up without dying of pure squee all over again. I just love the moments when they are actually on the same page and really hear each other. I long for it so and it happens so rarely. For them to really understand and accept one another. For them to stay. And for long, slow, wet kisses that last through cutting away, maybe even a commercial break. Sigh. Does anyone not love this scene?

Comments

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Hmm, see, I don't think Sam implies that at all. He says "I know my wife, you think you're the first?" He doesn't imply that Kara was hiding anything at all, but that he knew/knows what she's up to.

I don't think Kara would actually rub it in his face by talking about what she's doing though. She never talks about what she's doing. She's not a talker.